New fossil found in real life! (and in Virginia of all places)

[rodlox]

Fans of the hit tv series Primeval can already name several species of gliding and flying animals of the pre-Cretaceous eras.

Well, now there's one more. Mecistotrachelos apeoros

Comments

[fredbassett]

Interesting, thanks :) Looks a bit like a long-necked Rex.

[rodlox]

you're very welcome.
btw, the original post (in a dinosaur list) had a photo too...which I put in my post on the subject to primeval_itv
just so you know.

[lil_shepherd]

That must be one of the smallest of the insect eating fliers. I wonder how good a flier it was. That long neck must have unbalanced it, so it had to flap harder. The article doesn't say anything about muscle attachments on the keel, or about whether the bones are hollow (or really light, anyway, like a diplodocus

[rodlox]

hmm...could the long neck have functioned as a rudder? (like the crests of pterodactyls)

so, Rex would probably befriend it, have it for a pet, or eat it.
:)

[lil_shepherd]

Oh, eat it, at that size...[grin]