Mosasauroid squamates were abundant and had a worldwide distribution during the Late Cretaceous, but records from Sub-Saharan Africa are comparatively scanty and based mainly on fragmentary and isolated material. Here new mosasaur remains from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Dakhla Oasis in the South-Western Desert of Egypt are recorded, including: a small, fragmentary right dentary of an indeterminate mosasaurine with a single tooth preserved in situ and an isolated tooth crown of the genus Globidens. This material stems from fossiliferous, calcareous sandstones with intercalated shales that form the lower portion of the Dakhla Formation, known to be an intertidal to subtidal deposit. Previously recorded mosasaur remains from the Eastern Desert in Egypt included Globidens phosphaticus, Platecarpus sp., and Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus. In Africa, mosasaurs of the Maastrichtian age have been recorded from Morocco, Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Niger. The newly collected material from Dakhla Oasis currently constitutes the youngest record of mosasaurs in Egypt.

在白垩纪晚期，沧龙类有鳞类物种丰富，分布于世界各地，但来自撒哈拉以南非洲的记录相对较少，主要基于碎片和孤立的物质。此处记录了来自埃及西南沙漠达赫拉绿洲的马斯特里赫特（上白垩纪）的新沧龙遗骸，包括：一个不定的沧龙的一个小的、破碎的右齿，原位保存了一颗牙齿和一个孤立的牙齿冠Globidens属。这种材料源自含化石的钙质砂岩，夹层页岩形成了 Dakhla 组的下部，已知是潮间带至潮下带沉积物。先前记录的来自埃及东部沙漠的沧龙遗骸包括Globidens phosphaticus、Platecarpus sp. 和Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus。在非洲，已在摩洛哥、尼日利亚、安哥拉、刚果民主共和国和尼日尔记录到马斯特里赫特时代的沧龙。从达赫拉绿洲新收集的材料目前构成了埃及最年轻的沧龙记录。