Egypt has many fossil-bearing geologic formations, in which many dinosaurs have been discovered.
Ernst StromerRichard Markgraf, early 1900s, (he died in Sinnuris of Giza in 1916)A. B. Orlebar. Fayoum 1845George Schweinfurth,Geziret al-Qarn in Lake Qarun 1879 & Qasr al-Sagha Formation ancient whale fossils named Zeuglodom osiris.Hugh Beadnell Fayoum in 1898Charles Andrews, 1901, they unearthed a wealth of fossils Palaeomastodon, the oldest known elephantEberhard Frass, Fayoum 1905Walter Granger & Henry F. Osborn, Fayoum 1907Wendell Phillips 1947Elwyn L. Simons, Fayoum 1961- 1986Bowm and Rasmussen, 1980sFayoum, Petrified wood protectorate in New-Cairo Area/ Cairo-Suez desert road & entire Western Desert of Egypt is covered in Petrified wood.
This is one of the clues that the region was a tropical climate. The petrified wood is very diverse and many samples are very beautiful, often actually littering the ground in certain areas.
Turtle fossils in FayoumTestudo ammon, a large land tortoisePodocnemis blanckenhorni river turtleStereogenys pelomedusa tropical land turtlesGigantic snake fossils found in the Qasr al-Sagha Formation.GigantophisPterosphernusTomistoma, a crocodile type animal.The area of Uganda bordering Lake Victoria and the upper Nile River area is not unlike the climate of the Fayoum long ago, where many bird fossils have been discovered.
ospreys (Pandionidae)Gigantic shoebilled stork(Balaenicipitidae)jacanas, sometimes called lily-trotters (Jacanidae)herons, egrets, rails (Rallidae)cranes (Gruidae)flamingos (Phoenicopteridae)storks (Ciconiidae)cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae)An ancient eagle named Accipitridaelarge Hyrax (Megalohyrax oecaenus)ElephantsmastodonsFayoum's whale or Zeuglodon or more precisely the Basilosaurus in Fayoum's Wadi Zeuglodon (or wadi al-Hitan, Whale Valley)Another whale in Wadi Zeuglodon is the DorudonArsinoitherium, a rhinoceros like animal with two hornsArsinoitherium zitteliArsinoitherium andrewsiElephants (mastodons) in FayoumMoeritherium in Fayoum, and in Wadi NaturnPalaeomastodonPhiomaApterodonPterodonHyaenodonSirenia (Sea Cow)The Fayoum primates
The Lower sequence primatesOligopithecus savageiQatrania wingiThe upper sequence primatesCatopithecus browniProteopitheus sylviaOligopithecusApidium moustafaiApidium phiomenseParapithecus fraasiParapithecus grangeriAegyptopithecus zeuxisPropliopithecus, (P. chirobates, P. ankeli, P. haeckeli and P. markgrafi)AegyptosaurusBahariasaurusCarcharodontosaurusDeltadromeusParalititanSpinosaurusWadi Al-HitanBaharija FormationJebel Qatrani FormationNubian SandstoneQasr el Sagha FormationUpper Cretaceous PhosphatesVariegated ShaleMadwar al-Bighal 