Extraction and restoration of the dinosaur bones of Quseir Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

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1 Geology Department, Faculty of Science, New Valley University, El-Kharga 72511, Egypt.

2 Geology department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

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The Western Desert of Egypt has good exposures of Late Cretaceous successions. These successions contain evidence of dinosaur bones bedded in compact mudstone of the Quseir Formation, Campanian age. These fossils are highly affected by the paleoenvironments of the host layer and recent weather factors. The rate of sedimentation and the degree of the current energy are almost the main factors of the mode of preservation of the vertebrate fossils. The dinosaur fossils are very rare in the Cretaceous deposits of Egypt; therefore any evidence of these bones will increase the knowledge of the form and the distribution of dinosaurs of the African continent. The extraction of these fossils from the host layers needs highly expert paleontologists and special tools to avoid damaging these fossils during the extraction. Here, we explain the extraction and restoration methods of the dinosaur fossils from the south of the Western Desert of Egypt. These methods are explained here in successive steps, which the paleontologist could gradually guide for the vertebrate fossil extraction.

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