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Romanian Enantiornithines

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The illustration I did for the new paper by Gareth Dyke, Mátyás Vremir, Gary Kaiser and Darren Naish

The paper describes the discovery of a fossilized nesting colony of enantiornithines in Romania, at the same formation that yielded freswhater turtles (two dordokids are seen at the riverbank) and crocodiles, as well as the famous Hateg Island inhabitants: Telmatosaurus, Hatzegopteryx, Balaur, etc.

The environment represents a freshwater system composed of floodplains and large rivers, while the lush vegetation consists largely of conifers, palms, ferns and a few angiosperms, as well as aquatic plants.

You can read more about the paper at TetZoo
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Inmyarmsinmyarms's avatar
In retrospect should look a lot more like Lectavis and be burying the eggs like a megapode.