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Professor David Martill wrote about the
of the study. He said: "This is the most
piece of work on fossil
from the Sahara in almost a
." He added: "This place was filled with
enormous fish...probably four or even five
larger than today's....There was an enormous freshwater saw shark...with the most fearsome of
. They are like barbed daggers, but beautifully
." Dr Nizar Ibrahim, lead author of the report into the research, said it was a truly inhospitable
. He said it was, "a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long". He said the study provides "a window into Africa's
of dinosaurs".