Bawitius bartheli

Bawitius is an extinct genus of giant polypterid from the Upper Cretaceous 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 : left ectopterygoid scales and some sparse scales.