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(This is not dinovember but dinovember will come back but this is Falcatakely, a recently discovered enantiornithean bird that lives in the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, coexisting with Beelzebufo, Majungasaurus, Maiasakasaurus, Simosuchus and Adalatherium)

Falcatakely is an extinct genus of enantiornithean bird known from partial fossils from northern Madagascar. The genus contains a single species, Falcatakely forsterae. Falcatakely is a crow-sized stem-bird that can be distinguished from all other enantiornitheans by its deep, long rostrum, which is slightly reminiscent of that of a toucan.

Falcatakely is known from the Maevarano Formation, then a swampy floodplain which seasonally alternated between being swampland in the wet season and dry semidesert during the dry season; it was home to other unusual animals such as Simosuchus, a herbivorous crocodilian, Masiakasaurus, a short-armed, buck-toothed theropod, and Adalatherium, a highly unusual stem-mammal. These forms may have evolved due to Madagascar being an isolated island during the Cretaceous.

(Made by BearRangell1234, aka Rangell Alexandrino)

Reference and research from Mark Witton and Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcatak…

Description
(This is not dinovember but dinovember will come back but this is Falcatakely, a recently discovered enantiornithean bird that lives in the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, coexisting with Beelzebufo, Majungasaurus, Maiasakasaurus, Simosuchus and Adalatherium)

Falcatakely is an extinct genus of enantiornithean bird known from partial fossils from northern Madagascar. The genus contains a single species, Falcatakely forsterae. Falcatakely is a crow-sized stem-bird that can be distinguished from all other enantiornitheans by its deep, long rostrum, which is slightly reminiscent of that of a toucan.

Falcatakely is known from the Maevarano Formation, then a swampy floodplain which seasonally alternated between being swampland in the wet season and dry semidesert during the dry season; it was home to other unusual animals such as Simosuchus, a herbivorous crocodilian, Masiakasaurus, a short-armed, buck-toothed theropod, and Adalatherium, a highly unusual stem-mammal. These forms may have evolved due to Madagascar being an isolated island during the Cretaceous.

(Made by BearRangell1234, aka Rangell Alexandrino)

Reference and research from Mark Witton and Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcatak…