Bahariasaurus
Bahariasaurus ingens
Pronounced: Bah-ha-Ree-ah-Saw-rus
Diet: Carnivore (Meat-Eater)
Name Means: "Oasis Lizard"
Length: 20 to 40 feet (6 to 12 m)
Height: 8 to 16 feet (2.5 to 5 m)
Weight: 4 tons (3,600 kilos)
Time: Late Cretaceous - 100 mya
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur have been found in North Africa
Very little is known about Bahariasaurus as only a small number of hipbones have been found. Even those were lost, however, when Allied bombs destroyed the German museum where the bones were housed during WWII. Bahariasaurus was probably a large meat-eater, almost as big as T. rex. It might have looked like Carcharodontosaurus which lived in the same area of North Africa.
A number of these bones
were found by German
paleontologists shortly
before WWI. In the early
1930's they were named
Bahariasaurus and identified
as coming from a huge
carnivore. WWI ended the
original search for the
specimen and WWII destroyed
what had been found. Some
scientists have suggested
that Bahariasaurus may have
been part of the
Tyrannosauridae family. |
