Detecting tiny crocodiles in the rock, suspecting strange creatures

Langenberg quarry, Germany is famous for its rich marine marine fossil remains in the late Jurassic period. This time, the quarry must rely on the help of scientists to discover the strange fossil treasure.

3D image of small head crocodile fossils, dating from the dinosaur period.

The most recent finding shows that a pair of atoposaurids is shaped like a small head crocodile, which is difficult to separate from the limestone and its range. Therefore, scientists had to use tomography to restore the 3D image of one of the two skulls.

Scientists identify the skull completely unlike any previously discovered atoposaurid species. They claim that these specimens belong to genus Theriosuchus, called the crocodile Knoetschkesuchus langenbergensis .

Antiques writer Daniela Schwarz, working at Leibniz Institute for Biodiversity and Evolution Research, said: "Descriptive study of the new crocodile named Knoetschkesuchus langenbergensis appeared about 154 million years ago in northern Vietnam. Virtue".

This strange creature is the evolutionary line of crocodiles . After studying 2 3D preserved skulls allow human anatomy detailed through tomography images.