Tameryraptor
Tameryraptor was a huge meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Egypt about 95 million years ago. It was as long as a school bus and had a horn on its nose. Its fossils were destroyed in World War II, but scientists used old photos to study it.12
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Fun facts
Tameryraptor had symmetrical teeth and a prominent horn on its nose.2
Its fossils were destroyed in a bombing raid on Munich on July 21, 1944.2
Tameryraptor lived in a mangrove swamp with tidal flats and waterways.1
It shared its home with Spinosaurus, Bahariasaurus, and giant fish like Mawsonia.1
The name Tameryraptor comes from an ancient Egyptian name for Egypt, Ta-mery, meaning 'beloved land'.1
Most asked questions about Tameryraptor
?How big was Tameryraptor?
About 10 metres (33 feet) long, which is as long as a school bus. It was one of the largest land meat-eaters, similar in size to Tyrannosaurus rex.21
?Did Tameryraptor have feathers?
Nobody knows for sure. No fossil feathers were found, and its close relatives, the carcharodontosaurids, are usually shown with scales, but some dinosaurs had feathers.1
?What did Tameryraptor eat?
It ate other dinosaurs and animals. It lived alongside sauropods like Paralititan and Aegyptosaurus, and other meat-eaters like Spinosaurus.1
?When did Tameryraptor live?
It lived about 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period (Cenomanian age).1
?Is Tameryraptor a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a dinosaur. It belongs to the carcharodontosaurid group of large meat-eating theropods.1
?Why did Tameryraptor have a horn?
Scientists think the horn on its nose might have been used for display, like to attract mates or scare rivals, but they are not certain.1
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Myth buster
Myth: Tameryraptor is the same as Carcharodontosaurus.
Truth: Scientists originally thought it was Carcharodontosaurus, but new photos showed it was a different dinosaur with symmetrical teeth and a nasal horn.2
For dino experts
- Scientific name
- Tameryraptor
- Named by
- Kellermann et al. 20254
- Group
- Meat-eating dinos
- Family / clade
- Carcharodontosauridae4
- Classification
- Theropoda > Allosauroidea > Carcharodontosauridae4
- Age of the rocks
- 100 to 94 million years (Cenomanian)4
- Rock formations
- Bahariya4
- Countries
- Egypt4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- The fossils were dug up in 1914 by Richard Markgraf in Egypt and sent to German paleontologist Ernst Stromer. Stromer described them in 1931. The bones were destroyed in 1944, but in 2025 Maximilian Kellermann and his team used old photos to name the new species Tameryraptor markgrafi.12
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure how many other large predatory dinosaurs lived in the Bahariya Oasis, because most fossils from that area were destroyed.2
Where the facts come from
- Tameryraptor (en.wikipedia.org)
- SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns » Munich paleontologists discover a new species of North African predatory dinosaur on historic images (snsb.de)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Tameryraptor in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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