Bawitius Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Restoration of Bawitius | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Polypteriformes |
Family: | Polypteridae |
Genus: | †Bawitius Grandstaff et al. 2012[1] |
Species: | †B. bartheli
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Binomial name | |
†Bawitius bartheli | |
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Bawitius is an extinct genus of giant polypterid from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) Bahariya Formation of Egypt.[1] The type species is B. bartheli, named as a species of Polypterus in 1984,[2] and the genus etymology comes from Bawiti, the principal settlement of the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt.[1] It is known from the holotype TU-B SFB 69 Vb 003 (= Bah 5/12-016): left ectopterygoid scales and some sparse scales.[2][1]