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Paleontologists Describe New Species of Predatory Dinosaur

Paleontologists Describe New Species of Predatory Dinosaur

Science and Nature
Paleontologists have actually explained a brand-new genus and types of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur based upon representations of the now-destroyed specimen from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt. Life restoration of Tameryraptor markgrafiImage credit: Joschua Knüppe. The newly-identified dinosaur resided in what is now Africa throughout the Cretaceous duration, some 95 million years earlier. Called Tameryraptor markgrafithe ancient types belongs to a group of meat-eating theropod dinosaurs called Carcharodontosauridae. The dinosaur's fossilized remains were discovered in 1914 around 2 km (1.2 miles) from Ain Gedid on the Western foot of the Gebel Harra of the Bahariya Formation. The fossils were very first explained in 1931 by the German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach...