#falcatakely

[rajingdragon]

Finally uploading all these!

Shadows of the past

[thatonegaycactus]

Day 54 of DDD! The Falcatakely! A dinosaur from late cretaceous who lived alongside the likes of simosuchus and majungasaurus! While they look like toucans, it's skull had more in common with other therapods than toucans!

[brokenflaem123432]

I really like the dinoformers! Since There was that study that birds could play a png as sound, could the cassettes be enantiornithes? (Just spitballing, don’t have to do this, just some food for thought)

I love this so much actually!

Have Lazerbeak the Longipterix, Buzzsaw the Falcatakely, and Ravage the Baurusuchus

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[vulturescale]

Character belongs to SpiderNoob64 on Artfight

First attack this year! Technically also revenge for last year, when i was too burntout to revenge on time </3

First time i ever heard of this species, so i had alot of fun painting this guy!

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another #paleostream sketch

Falcatakely, one of my favorite Mesozoic birds. It's a bizarre enantiornithine from Madagascar, maybe with only a single pair of teeth.

[harpagornis]

Falcatakely as an omnivoropterygid by corvarts

Falcatakely was originally interpreted as an enantiornithean, BUT some researchers like Mickey Mortimer have found it more similar to Sapeornis. This is not out of thin air as an omnivoropterygid-like sternum was found in the Maevarano Formation (O'Connor 2010). Then again, so were pengornithid-like material and Falcatakely as an enantiornithean is recovered next to Pengornis (O'Connor 2020), so it's a matter of personal preference at this point. I just though the omnivoropterygid interpretation needs more representation.

[thedrawinggizzard]

Quick update on the prehistoric flyers. They are almost finished, which I was a little surprised by, I really thought they were going to take longer. I just need to add a few extra details and colour cryodrakons legs in (im not entirely sure what im going to do for that). I'd also like to get a better camera or lighting because I think the colours could come out better.

[alphynix]

Modern birds' upper beaks are made up mostly from skull bones called the premaxilla, but the snouts of their earlier non-avian dinosaur ancestors were instead formed by large maxilla bones.

And Falcatakely forsterae here had a very unusual combination of these features.

Living in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous, about 70-66 million years ago, it was around 40cm long (1'4") and was part of a diverse lineage of Mesozoic birds known as enantiornitheans. These birds had claws on their wings and usually had toothy snouts instead of beaks, and many species also had ribbon-like display feathers on their tails instead of lift-generating fans.

Falcatakely had a long tall snout very similar in shape to a modern toucan, unlike any other known Mesozoic bird, with the surface texture of the bones indicating it was also covered by a keratinous beak. But despite this very "modern" face shape the bone arrangement was still much more similar to other enantiornitheans – there was a huge toothless maxilla making up the majority of the beak, with a small tooth-bearing premaxilla at the tip.

This suggests that there was more than one potential way for early birds to evolve modern-style beaks, and there may have been much more diversity in these animals' facial structures than previously thought.

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