Igai

DV-1207 · type species Igai semkhu

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods, Saltasauridae
Found in: Egypt
Named by: Gorscak et al. 2023

Field notes

About Igai

Igai was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Saltasauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Igai, from Egypt. Its fossils come from the Quseir Formation. It was named by Gorscak et al. in 2023.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Saltasauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Gorscak, M. C. Lamanna, and D. Schwarz, V. Díez Díaz, B. S. Salem, H. M. Sallam, M. F. Wiechmann. 2023. A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(6):e2199810:1-30