Paleontology in Egypt
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Egypt has many fossil-bearing geologic formations, in which many dinosaurs have been discovered.
Scientists
Ernst Stromer
Richard Markgraf, early 1900s, (he died in Sinnuris of Faiyum in 1916)
A. B. Orlebar, Fayoum 1845
George Schweinfurth, Geziret al-Qarn in Lake Qarun 1879 & Qasr al-Sagha Formation ancient whale fossils named Zeuglodom osiris.
Hugh Beadnell, Fayoum 1898
Charles Andrews, 1901, they unearthed a wealth of fossils Palaeomastodon, the oldest known elephant
Eberhard Frass, Fayoum 1905
Walter Granger & Henry F. Osborn, Fayoum 1907
Wendell Phillips, 1947
Elwyn L. Simons, Fayoum 1961–1986
Thomas M. Bown and David Tab Rasmussen, 1980s
Hesham Sallam
Fossils
Petrified Wood
Fayoum, Petrified wood protectorate in New-Cairo Area/ Cairo-Suez desert road & entire Western Desert of Egypt is covered in Petrified wood.
This is one of the clues that the region was a tropical climate. The petrified wood is very diverse and many samples are very beautiful, often actually littering the ground in certain areas.
Reptiles
Turtle fossils in Fayoum
Testudo ammon, a large land tortoise
Podocnemis blanckenhorni river turtle
Stereogenys pelomedusa tropical land turtles
Gigantic snake fossils found in the Qasr al-Sagha Formation.
Gigantophis
Pterosphernus
Tomistoma, a crocodile type animal.
Wadisuchus kassabi, earliest known Dyrosauridae
Birds
The area of Uganda bordering Lake Victoria and the upper Nile River area is not unlike the climate of the Fayoum long ago, where many bird fossils have been discovered.
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