Bawitius
| Bawitius Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Restoration of Bawitius | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Polypteriformes |
| Family: | Polypteridae |
| Genus: | †Bawitius Grandstaff et al. 2012 |
| Species: | †B. bartheli |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bawitius bartheli Grandstaff et al. 2012, (Schaal, 1984) | |
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Bawitius is an extinct genus of giant polypterid from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The type species is B. bartheli, named as a species of Polypterus in 1984, and the genus etymology comes from Bawiti, the principal settlement of the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt. It is known from the holotype TU-B SFB 69 Vb 003 (= Bah 5/12-016): left ectopterygoid scales and some sparse scales.