Another new titanosaur from Egypt

[DD1991]

Another Late Cretaceous titanosaur has been found in the land of pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies:

 

Gorscak, E.; Lamanna, M. C.; Schwarz, D.; Díez Díaz, V.; Salem, B. S.; Sallam, H. M.; and Wiechmann, M. F., 2023. A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e2199810. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2199810.

 

When I read the 2018 paper describing Mansourasaurus, the significance of this titanosaur wasn't lost on me because Mansourasaurus itself was the first sauropod of Campanian-Maastrichtian age to be described from an African locality besides Madagascar, but the recovery of that genus as closely related to European titanosaurs suggested that some Eurasian titanosaurs colonized North Africa in the late Campanian-Maastrichtian. Although Igai semkhu is now the second described sauropod from the Quseir Formation, its holotype remained forgotten for decades after it was found in 1977, but the available morphological data places it as a relative of European titanosaurs like Mansourasaurus.