Tameryraptor

Tameryraptor is an extinct genus of large carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Egypt. It is known from a partial skeleton collected in rock layers from the Bahariya Formation by crews of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer in 1914, comprising an incomplete skull, vertebrae, and several other postcranial elements. Stromer described the specimen in 1931, referring it to the previously named Megalosaurus saharicus on the basis of its tooth anatomy, and placing it in a new genus, Carcharodontosaurus. In 1944, it was destroyed in the Bombing of Munich during the Second World War. The specimen remained assigned to Carcharodontosaurus saharicus until a review of photographs of the fossil material in 2025 allowed researchers around German paleontologist Maximilian Kellermann to recognize the material as belonging to a distinct taxon known from a single species, Tameryraptor markgrafi.