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Tameryraptor
| Tameryraptor Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Photograph of the holotype before its destruction in 1944 | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction of the holotype with known material in white | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Carcharodontosauria |
| Family: | †Carcharodontosauridae |
| Genus: | †Tameryraptor Kellermann, Cuesta & Rauhut, 2025 |
| Species: | †T. markgrafi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tameryraptor markgrafi Kellermann, Cuesta & Rauhut, 2025
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Tameryraptor ("thief from the beloved land") is an extinct genus of large carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age) Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The genus contains a single species, T. markgrafi, known from partial skull bones and vertebrae, and leg bones. The holotype specimen was discovered in 1914 and assigned to the related genus Carcharodontosaurus by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer. It was later destroyed in a bombing during the Second World War in 1944. A subsequent review of photographs of the fossil material allowed researchers in 2025 to recognize the material as belonging to a distinct taxon. Tameryraptor was one of the only African carcharodontosaurids found that preserved associated cranial and postcranial remains. It is a large theropod with a distinctive horn-like protuberance on its snout.
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