Tameryraptor ("thief from the beloved land") is an extinct genus of large carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age) Bahariya Formation of Egypt.
The holotype specimen was discovered in 1914 and assigned to the related genus Carcharodontosaurus by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer.
In early April 1914, theropod fossils were found in marls near Ain Gedid, Egypt by Austro-Hungarian paleontologist Richard Markgraf.
The sediments from this region derive from the Cenomanian-aged Bahariya Formation, one of many Cretaceous-aged sites of North Africa.
[3] Stromer recognized that the teeth of this specimen matched the characteristic dentition of those described by Depéret and Savornin in 1925 for their new species "Megalosaurus" saharicus.
World War II broke out in 1939, leading to SNSB-BSPG 1922 X 46 and other Bahariya material to be destroyed during a British bombing raid on Munich during the night of April 24/25, 1944.
[2] In 2025, Kellermann, Cuesta & Rauhut described Tameryraptor markgrafi as a new genus and species of carcharodontosaurid theropods based on these fossil remains.
The rear portion of the skull of Tameryraptor is represented by the parietals, frontals, part of the supraoccipital, and partial otoccipitals (bones relating to the ear).
Both femora in addition to the left fibula were recovered, the former element being one of the largest recorded from a theropod at 1.26 metres (4.1 ft) in length.
Their analyses found support for a sister taxon relationship of carcharodontosaurids and metriacanthosaurids, which the authors named as a new clade, Carcharodontosauriformes.
The results of their analysis using merged OTUs (operational taxonomic units) is displayed in the cladogram below:[4] Lusovenator Lajasvenator Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis Taurovenator Tyrannotitan North Africa during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous bordered the Tethys Sea, which transformed the region into a mangrove-dominated coastal environment filled with vast tidal flats and waterways.