Ancient shark graveyard discovered in Egypt reveals 5 extinct species from dinosaur era
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14 fossilised teeth found in Egypt’s ancient shark graveyard reveal five extinct species from the age of dinosaurs
Fossilised shark teeth from Egypt's Western Desert reveal prehistoric ocean life. Scientists discovered teeth from five extinct shark species in the Abu-Tartur Plateau region. These ancient predators inhabited warm tropical seas during the Late Cretaceous period. The findings expand the known record of shark diversity in North Africa. This discovery highlights Egypt's ancient marine environments hidden beneath its deserts.
Extinct shark species from the time of the dinosaurs have been discovered by Egyptian paleontologists in the Western Desert. Among the specimens found were species that experts had never seen before in Egypt. The find confirmed that today's inhospitable desert was home to a sea full of life tens of millions of years ago.
The western Egyptian desert has just delivered a new clue to its marine past. On the Abu-Tartur plateau, west of the Nile Valley, paleontologists have extracted fourteen fossil teeth of sharks. The team led by Tarek Yassin, of the University of Cairo, described them in the journal Cretaceous Research. These teeth come from the formation of Duwi, a stack of phosphate layers deposited at the Upper Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago. The main r…
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