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This picture was just sent from the early cenomanian, taken in what´s now morocco. Here you can see a male Xericeps curvirostris occupying the heron´s ecological niche, looking around for prey in the coastal mangroves of the Kem Kem river´s delta. A hazardous decision, due to the long list of predatory fish and reptiles from this ecosystem. This azhdarchid is known only from a jaw bone, so the reconstruction is completely hypothetical. The trees on the background resembling mangroves are a fern called Weichselia, which is not present on the kem kem beds fossil record, but it´s been found among fossils from the bahariya formation, and also in deposits from Colombia, Peru and Germany, so it´s wide distribution suggests it might have been present all around the proto-north atlantic ocean, making probable it´s appearance in the Kem Kem river system.

Description
This picture was just sent from the early cenomanian, taken in what´s now morocco. Here you can see a male Xericeps curvirostris occupying the heron´s ecological niche, looking around for prey in the coastal mangroves of the Kem Kem river´s delta. A hazardous decision, due to the long list of predatory fish and reptiles from this ecosystem. This azhdarchid is known only from a jaw bone, so the reconstruction is completely hypothetical. The trees on the background resembling mangroves are a fern called Weichselia, which is not present on the kem kem beds fossil record, but it´s been found among fossils from the bahariya formation, and also in deposits from Colombia, Peru and Germany, so it´s wide distribution suggests it might have been present all around the proto-north atlantic ocean, making probable it´s appearance in the Kem Kem river system.