Genus: Igai GORSCAK, LAMANNA, SCHWARZ, DIEZ DIAAZ, SALEM, SALLAM & WIECHMANN, 2023
Etymology:
"Igai" is the name of teh enigmatic "lord of the oasis" deity that was venerated by inhabitants of the Dakhla and Kharga oases (and surrounding regions) in Egypt from roughtly the Old Kingdom to the Late Period.
Species: semkhu GORSCAK, LAMANNA, SCHWARZ, DIEZ DIAAZ, SALEM, SALLAM & WIECHMANN, 2023
Etymology:
The species epithet "semkhu" is the perfect passive singular participle, "the forgotten," of "semekh," the ancient Egyptian verb "to forget." Collectively, "the forgotten lord of the oasis" alludes to both the relatively recent emergence of latest Cretaceous nonmarine vertebrate fossils from continental Africa (particularly Egypt) and the lengthy and complicated history of the holotypeic specimen.
Holotype: Vg-621-640
Locality: East of Maks El-Bahari, southeast of the town of Baris, roughtly 500 m east of the Darb Al Arbaein, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt.
Horizon: Wuseir Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:5 fragmentary dorsal vertebrae, partial left coracoid, partial left ulna, 3 left metacarpals (I, IV, and V), the porximla part of the left pubis, both tibiae (a partial right and the complete and well-cocumentd but currently missing left, Vg-634), the left fibula, and 3 metatarsals (left I, left and right ((). Numerous additional fragments of the specimen were apparently discovered but were not described by previous authors (Brinkmann & Buffetaut, 1990, Wiechmann, 1999) and cannot be accounted for at the present.