Pronunciation:
Meaning: Thief from the beloved land
Author/s: Kellermann, Cuesta and Rauhut (2025)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Al Jizah, Egypt
Discovery Chart Position: #1161
Tameryraptor markgrafi
(Markgraf's Thief from the Beloved Land)Etymology
Tameryraptor is derived from "ta-mery" (beloved land), one of the more informal ancient Egyptian names for Egypt, and the Latin "raptor" (plunderer, robber, thief). The species epithet, markgrafi, honours Richard Markgraf, the Austrian fossil collector who discovered most of the dinosaur remains described by Ernst Stromer.
Discovery
The remains of Tameryraptor were discovered in the Bahariya Formation, two kilometers from Ain Gedid on the Western foot of the Gebel Harra, Al Jizah, Egypt, by Richard Markgraf in April 1914.
The holotype (SNSB-BSPG 1922 X 46), destroyed during WWII bombing raids on Munich in 1944, is a partial skull, three neck vertebrae, a tail vertebra and chevron, a partial rib, three hip bones (a left ischium, right and left pubis), both thighs and a left calf. In the absence of the physical remains, the descriptions and figures of Stromer and a previously undescribed photograph of the mounted specimen (UAT 678/20 ) housed in the Huene Archive at the University of Tübingen stand as representatives for the holotype, in accordance with ICZN article 73.1.4.
