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The Bahariya Formation (Baharija Formation) is a fossil bearing geologic formation dating back to the Cenomanian

Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous series. An age is a unit of geochronology: it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the stratigraphic column deposited during the corresponding...

, geographically located in Marsa Matruh

Marsa Matruh

Marsa Matrouh is a Mediterranean seaport and the capital of the Matrouh Governorate in Egypt. It is west of Alexandria and 222 km from Sallum, on the main highway from the Nile Delta to the Libyan border. Another highway leads south from the town, toward the Western Desert and the oases of...

, central Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

Lepidosaurs

Lepidosaurs of the Bahariya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes
Simoliophis

Sauropods

Indeterminate sauropod remains.

Sauropods of the Bahariya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Aegyptosaurus Aegyptosaurus Aegyptosaurus meaning 'Egypt’s lizard', for the country in which it was discovered is a genus of sauropod dinosaur believed to have lived in what is now Africa, around 95 million years ago, during the mid- and late-Cretaceous Period . Like most sauropods, it had a long neck and a small skull...	A. baharijensis			"Partial postcranial skeleton."
cf. Dicraeosaurus Dicraeosaurus Dicraeosaurus is a genus of small diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur. It was named for the spines on the back of the neck. The first fossil was described by paleontologist Werner Janensch in 1914.Unlike most diplodocoids, Dicraeosaurus had a large head with a relatively short and wide neck...	cf. Dicraeosaurus sp.
Paralititan Paralititan Paralititan was a giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur genus discovered in coastal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The fossil represents the first tetrapod reported from the Bahariya Formation since 1935. Its 1.69 meter long humerus is longer than that of any...	P. stromeri			"Partial postcranial skeleton."

Theropods

Theropods of the Bahariya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Bahariasaurus Bahariasaurus Bahariasaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur found in the Bahariya Formation in El-Waha el-Bahariya or Bahariya oasis in Egypt and Kem Kem Beds of North Africa, which date to the late Cretaceous Period, , about 95 million years ago...	B. ingens				Also present in the Continental intercalaire
Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus was a gigantic carnivorous carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived around 100 to 93 million years ago, during the late Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous Period...	C. saharicus				Also present in the Kem Kem Formation and Continental intercalaire
Deltadromeus Deltadromeus Deltadromeus is a genus of large basal ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur from Northern Africa. It had long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size, suggesting that it was a swift runner. The skull is not known. Two fossil specimens of a single species Deltadromeus (meaning "delta runner") is a...	D. agilis				Also present in the Kem Kem Formation
Elaphrosaurus Elaphrosaurus Elaphrosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Elaphrosaurus was probably a ceratosaur about 6 meters long. Suggestions that it is a late surviving coelophysoid have been entertained but are generally dismissed. It was first...	Indeterminate				Bahariya material previously referred to Elaphrosaurus now considered to be indeterminate theropod remains.
Erectopus Erectopus Erectopus is an allosauroid theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of France.The material comprising the type series was discovered in the late 19th century from the Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive at Louppy-le-Château in eastern France, which have also produced remains of plesiosaurs,...	E. sauvagei
Spinosaurus Spinosaurus Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...	S. aegyptiacus
	Spinosaurus sp.

Lepidosaurs

Sauropods

Theropods

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