In Depth Described from a well preserved skull, Barbatteius is a genus of teiid lizard that lived in Romania during the late Cretaceous. Further Reading - A new teiid lizard from the Late Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin, Romania and its � phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical relationships. - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. - M. Venczel & … Read more
In Depth Melanosteus seems to have been a fairly small genus of arthrodire placoderm fish that had a near global distribution early from the Silurian to Devonian periods. As an arthrodire placoderm fish, Melanosteus was likely a predator of other aquatic organisms. Melanosteus was named after the Montagne Noire (Black Mountains) of France near where … Read more
In Depth Savannasaurus is a genus of titanosaur that lived in Australia doing the Cretaceous. Hailing from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Savannasaurus would have been in the same habitat as other dinosaurs such as Diamantinasaurus, Austrosaurus and Wintonotitan. Savannasaurus seems to have been quite similar to Diamantinasaurus in form. Possible predatory threats to Savannasaurus … Read more
In Depth Initially described as a species of Plesiosaurus back in 1910, Meyerasaurus has spent a lot of time being shunted around from one genus to another before it was given its own place. First the remains were moved from Plesiosaurus to Thaumatosaurus. Then a long necked pliosaur called Rhomaleosaurus was suggested to be a … Read more
In Depth As far as the skeleton of Kulindadromeus is concerned, this genus was pretty much like any other small ornithischian dinosaur of the Jurassic. However, while most other ornithischian dinosaurs have been described from bones, extra fossils were available for Kulindadromeus, and these revealed a startling revelation: Kulindadromeus had a body that was covered … Read more
In Depth Palaeobatrachus was an ancient frog that has often been related as being similar to the African clawed toad genus Xenopus. Palaeobatrachus is thought to have been a primarily aquatic frog which means that it rarely left the water. Like with other frogs, Palaeobatrachus were probably predators of invertebrates as well as possibly vertebrates … Read more
In Depth Lavocatisaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the early Cretaceous. Further Reading - A new rebbachisaurid sauropod from the Aptian–Albian, Lower Cretaceous Rayoso Formation, Neuqu�n, Argentina. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 63. - Jos� Canudo, Jose Carballido, Alberto Garrido & Leonardo Salgado - 2018.
In Depth Kryostega is one of the growing number of temnospondyl amphibians that are now known from Antarctica. With a reconstructed body length estimated to be about four and a half meters long, Kryostega is so far one of the largest temnospondyl amphibians known to have lived in Antarctica during the Early Triassic, and a … Read more
In Depth The fairly high number of Leptochamops specimens so far found suggests that this would have been a fairly common little lizard in the late Cretaceous ecosystems of North America. Like with many modern lizard today, Leptochamops was probably a fairly small predator of invertebrates while it tried to keep out of the predatory … Read more
In Depth Presbytherium is a genus of pantodont mammal that lived in the Canadian province of Alberta during the Palaeocene period. Further Reading - New cyriacotheriid pantodonts (Mammalia, Pantodonta) from the Paleocene of Alberta, Canada, and the relationships of Cyriacotheriidae. - Journal of Paleontology 84(2):197-215. - Craig S. Scott - 2010.