Outline: a typical sauropod
Aegyptosaurus
"Egypt lizard"
- Lived
- 143 to 94 million years ago, Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 15 m (49 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Egypt and Niger
- Named by
- Stromer 1932
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical sauropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
120 million years ago
Field notes
About Aegyptosaurus
What it was like
Aegyptosaurus was a titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, about 15 meters (49 feet) long. It is known from parts of the legs and backbones.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Egypt, in a land of river channels and mangrove swamps. Its bones come from the Baharîje Formation, where it shared the land with the giant titanosaur Paralititan and the big hunters Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus and Bahariasaurus.
How it was found
Stromer named Aegyptosaurus in 1932. The first bones were destroyed in a wartime bombing raid, along with those of Spinosaurus, and survive only in drawings and descriptions.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Titanosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: E. Stromer. 1932. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 11. Sauropoda [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. II. Vertebrate animal remains from the Baharîje bed (lowest Cenomanian). 11. Sauropoda]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 10:1-21