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Description
Alexornis antecedens
Named by Pierce Brodkorb, 1976
Diet: Insectivore (Prey included insects that disturbed the large herbivorous dinosaurs such as the hadrosaurs that roamed Cretaceous Baja California in Mexico; it may have also fed on the scraps of meat from the jaws of carnivorous dinosaurs such as Labocania, a tyrannosauroid)
Type: Avialae Euavialae Avebricaudia Pygostylia Ornithothoraces (Enantiornithine) theropod dinosaur
Size: 5.9 inches (15 cenitimeters) long and 11 ounces (Note: The size is just estimate as it is known from fragmentary remains)
Region: West-Central America (Baja California, Mexico)
Age: Late Cretaceous (73.5 to 73 million BC; Late Campanian)
Enemies: Ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs such as the tyrannosauroid Labocania
Episode: Walking with Dinosaurs movie
Info: Discovered in 1971 in Baja California Mexico, while its generic name honors the American ornithologist and paleontologist Alexander Wetmore, Alexornis was originally thought to be an early member of the neornithes/aves (modern birds) ancestral to the Piciformes (woodpeckers and relatives) and Coraciiformes (rollers and relatives), that is until 1983 when the late American paleontologist Larry Martin classed this as an enantiornithine (recognized as a distinct group of Mesozoic birds in 1981 by the late British paleontologist Cyril Walker) as it had a reversed articulation of the scapula and coracoid bones in the shoulder which is not present in neornithines. Sadly, little is known of Alexornis as it is known from fragmentary remains (wing, shoulder, and leg bones) lacking the skull, while its description, including its appearance in the movie, is based on its close relatives.

So I have returned to do this after months of school work, Africa, and Jurassic Park/World hype.

Also this is one of the few times that John Leguizamo starred in a dinosaur movie since Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and the infamous Super Mario Bros. (1993).

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Description
Alexornis antecedens
Named by Pierce Brodkorb, 1976
Diet: Insectivore (Prey included insects that disturbed the large herbivorous dinosaurs such as the hadrosaurs that roamed Cretaceous Baja California in Mexico; it may have also fed on the scraps of meat from the jaws of carnivorous dinosaurs such as Labocania, a tyrannosauroid)
Type: Avialae Euavialae Avebricaudia Pygostylia Ornithothoraces (Enantiornithine) theropod dinosaur
Size: 5.9 inches (15 cenitimeters) long and 11 ounces (Note: The size is just estimate as it is known from fragmentary remains)
Region: West-Central America (Baja California, Mexico)
Age: Late Cretaceous (73.5 to 73 million BC; Late Campanian)
Enemies: Ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs such as the tyrannosauroid Labocania
Episode: Walking with Dinosaurs movie
Info: Discovered in 1971 in Baja California Mexico, while its generic name honors the American ornithologist and paleontologist Alexander Wetmore, Alexornis was originally thought to be an early member of the neornithes/aves (modern birds) ancestral to the Piciformes (woodpeckers and relatives) and Coraciiformes (rollers and relatives), that is until 1983 when the late American paleontologist Larry Martin classed this as an enantiornithine (recognized as a distinct group of Mesozoic birds in 1981 by the late British paleontologist Cyril Walker) as it had a reversed articulation of the scapula and coracoid bones in the shoulder which is not present in neornithines. Sadly, little is known of Alexornis as it is known from fragmentary remains (wing, shoulder, and leg bones) lacking the skull, while its description, including its appearance in the movie, is based on its close relatives.

So I have returned to do this after months of school work, Africa, and Jurassic Park/World hype.

Also this is one of the few times that John Leguizamo starred in a dinosaur movie since Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and the infamous Super Mario Bros. (1993).

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Walking with Dinosaurs is owned by BBC