Scientists Name Ancient Crocodile Species Found in Rock that Built the Great Sphinx

Scientists name ancient crocodile species found in rock that built the Great Sphinx

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The croc family tree may be getting a new branch. Analyzing fossilized remains discovered in the same bedrock that built the Great Sphinx, paleontologists newly identified a crocodilian species that once roamed a shallow sea in what’s now Egypt about 45 million years ago.The Mokattam Formation in northern Egypt

The Sphinx was built from rocks filled with fossils of crocodiles

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

From the Great Sphinx’s Raw Materials, a New Crocodile Species Surfaces

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New crocodile species found in rocks of Egypt's Great Sphinx

A skull from the now extinct ‘Herugavialis cairensis’ was discovered in the 1920s—and is also missing part of its nose.

An extinct crocodilian was found among rocks that built the Great Sphinx

Herugavialis is the new name for a fossil found in the same rocks that built the Great Sphinx. The reptile is a unique branch of the gharial family tree.