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New research, combining studies from Germany's State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the Paleontological Museum of the University of Zurich, has
The two fossils had bite marks on them with one having a mark on the broken neck point
China's Yanliao Biota, an assembly of fossils preserved in northeastern China dating from the Middle to Late Jurassic (174 to 145 million years ago), offers an important window into the evolution of vertebrates.
Analysis of bite marks on Tanystropheus hydroides, which lived during the Middle Triassic, showed another predator had attacked from above and torn its neck in two.
The fossil remains of the new species date to a period in the Earth's history that followed our planet's worst mass extinction event.