Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer, 1915

Remarks

• Collector:    Unknown

• Formation:  Unknown (Early Cenomanian rocks)

• Location:     Morocco

General Info

Synonyms (general list of reports)

• 1915 Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer

• 1915 Spinosaurus sp. Stromer

• 1969 cf. Spinosaurus sp. Arambourg & Wolff

• 1990 Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer; Weishampel, Dodson, and Osmólska

• 1990 Spinosaurus sp.; Weishampel, Dodson, and Osmólska

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Baharija Formation, Central Egypt

• Possibly from the Turkana Grits, Kenya

• Early Cenomanian rocks of Algeria

• Early Cenomanian rocks of Morocco

• Early Cenomanian rocks of Tunisia

Age

• According to Stromer, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is early Cenomanian in age (~97-96 mya), but the range of the genus may actually be longer.

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Algeria

• Central Egypt, Africa

• Kenya, Africa

• Morocco

• Tunisia

Remarks

       For more information, see:

• Dal Sasso, C.; Maganuco, S.; Buffetaut, E.; Mendez, M. A.  2005.  New Information on the Skull of the Enigmatic Theropod Spinosaurus, with Remarks on its Size and Affinities.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4), 888-896.

• Molnar, R. E.; Kurzanov, S. M.; Zhiming, D.  1990.  "Carnosauria".  In:  Weishampel, D. B.; Dodson, P.; Osmólska, H., eds.  The Dinosauria.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, Chapter 6.

• Stromer, E.  1915.  Wirbeltier–Reste der Baharîje-Stufe (Unterstes Cenoman).  3.  Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus nov. gen. nov. spec.  Abhandlungen der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Phyisikalische Klasse 28 (3), 1–32.

• Weishampel, D. B.  1990.  "Dinosaur Distribution".  In:  Weishampel, D. B.; Dodson, P.; Osmólska, H., eds.  The Dinosauria.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, Chapter 3.