Aegyptosaurus
ee-JIP-toh-SORE-us /iˌdʒɪptəˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Egypt lizard
- Aegyptos · Greek · Egypt
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name means "Egypt lizard" and refers to the country where the fossils were found, in the Bahariya Oasis of the Egyptian Western Desert. It was named by Ernst Stromer in 1932. The original material was destroyed in the bombing of Munich in World War II.
- Named by
- Stromer
- Year named
- 1932
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Cenomanian
- Found in
- Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Egypt
A titanosauriform sauropod. The type species is Aegyptosaurus baharijensis. Its original fossils were destroyed in 1944 during World War II. Some other material from North Africa has been referred to the genus, but those referrals are uncertain.