Crocodile Ancestor Found Among Fossils Discovered A Century Ago (United Kingdom)

[Oxytropidoceras]

Scientists identify crocodile ancestor among fossils

discovered a century ago (Tyrannoneustes

lythrodectikos, whose remains lay unidentified

in a museum, was a super-predator with dolphin-

like features, Press Association, January 28, 2013

http://www.guardian....fossils-century

New tyrannosaur found by Edinburgh scientists

by Shan Ross, The Scotsman, January 28, 2013

http://www.scotsman....tists-1-2762205

The paper is:

Young, M. T., M. Brandalise de Andradec, S. L.

Brusattede, M. Sakamotof and J. Listong, 2013,

The oldest known metriorhynchid super-predator:

a new genus and species from the Middle Jurassic

of England, with implications for serration and

mandibular evolution in predacious clad.

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. published

online 04 Jan 2013

http://www.tandfonli...rnalCode=tjsp20

Best wishes,

Paul H.

[Scylla]

Thanks for posting this, looks mosasaur-like.

[stonesnbones]

good article...I did see where they found several large unopened crates at the American Natural History Museum in New York....the crates had shipping labels indicating that they had been packed and shipped by famous paleontologist Barnum Brown. Somehow, they had been left in the basement and never catalogued. Who knows what species lay undiscovered in these museums.....:>

[Nandomas]

Steve Brusatte, one of the study coauthors, is not new to those discoveries. He did discovery like that searching in the NY Natural History Musuem drawers few years ago.

[Crinoid Queen]

That is so sweet what they leave unopened and undiscovered! I know I am working in a tiny little museum but I kinda hope that I run across something like that too!