Igai
Sign in to saveIgai is a genus of titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous Quseir Formation of Kharga Oasis, Egypt. The type species is Igai semkhu.
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- Parent taxon
- Saltasauridae
- Named after
- Igai
- Image
- Igai semkhu.jpg
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- taxon name
- Igai
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- genus
- location of discovery
- Egypt
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
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- Igai (dinosaur)
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Igai is a genus of titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous Quseir Formation of Kharga Oasis, Egypt. The type species is Igai semkhu.
== History == Fossils of Igai were first discovered in early November 1977 by German scientists Kal Werner Barthel and Ronald Böttcher of Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), who had been conducting research for the Sonderforschungsbereiches (Collaborative Research Center) of the TUB. These fossils were unearthed in the Kharga Oasis near the town of Baris in the Western Desert of Egypt.
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