Some fossil tetrapod thing

A eumaniraptor eating a snake?

based purely on what I assume is a head and long neck (assuming thare all neck vertebrae) on the right and those claws I'll go with a pterosaur (not with that skull) or a bird/bird-like dinosaur. A bit vague I know, but Im not a VERTEBRATE Palaeontologist! lol

Theaboves meant to read "I'll go with a pterosaur (but I'm not sure with that skull)"

is it a baby gorgonopsian? maybe an embryo?

Sumus Fossilorious Tetrapodius Thingosaurus

ooooh sea monsters! (not loch-lake-muck monsters, mind you)

By the size it is either a VERY small adult or more likely a juvenile/baby.....from the claws it could well be a maniraptoran - possibly troodontid or archaeoptergyd?

That close-up of the hand is interesting, and certainly looks like a maniraptoran theropod, and, if I'm not mistaken, those jaws seem edentulous. Those wouldn't be integument impressions along that arm, would they? Has this description appeared in print yet?

I'll say this: it's teeny.

Rhinogradentian.

Teeny is right.
Broadish skull, strong powerful grasping feet with some curvy claws. Probably spent some time in trees. No obvious ossified sternum, although it could be there in the jumble of torso bits.
Where's the hi-res pic?
My guess is a young predatory bird of some sort, like an owl or hawk.

Clearly the edentulous instar of the Lesser Bandy-Legged Hellasaur.

Either that, or an oviraptorosaur of some kind. That neck looks Khaan-ish.

Hmmm...so I feel like a dink...those are some graspy-looking feet. The curvy claws actually look something like those on Epidendrosaurus, but I think I'll definitely change my guess to a raptorial bird. It's tough to tell what's going on with the jumble of elements at the bottom.

Something about the articulation says small bird caught by large bird, who sat on a branch picking out the good bits and dropping the other pieces in a pile. I've seen similar messes underneath an eagle tree.

Look at that limb--one of the toes opposes the others. At least, that's what it looks like! It's very tiny, so I'm going to go with "baby animal." The claws are too big to be an epidendrosaur (also, I think it's a foot). The opposable toe says "bird," but I don't think the two belong together. That limb is WAY too big for that head and vertebral series.

Is a 'zentimeter' approximately equal to a centimetre?

Stewart

"Is a 'zentimeter' approximately equal to a centimetre?"

More or less, Stewart, but only when you are in a relaxed and meditative state of mind.

It's a ropen that died with an albino squirrel in its claws!

Okay, I have no idea what that is, but... drepanosaur?

Vertebrae! I see vertebrae!

Its a very fine matrix, so I thought `Chinese birdie`
The small size, delicate bones and claws seem to hold that out, or at least a dino bird.

It looks rather rotted and fragmentray though, pooh!

There are what appear to by hypapophyses in the mid-to-anterior cervical vertebrae, which given the construction of the skull and it's size, the size of the pes, and the general morphology make me think it's a Paleogene or possibly Neogene avian.

With big feet. I will pass of the romantic impression of a fossil jacana for now, given the curvature of the claws. The hallux (I am assuming the smaller opposing digit is a hallux due to its position and size, as well as appearing to compose only two phalanges) looks to be almost 1/3 the other digit, which appears to be a pd4.

The term "zentimeter" is German, which makes me think of the Messel beds.

There is no reason to suppose its Mesozoic, and the anatomy seems to show a crown-group avian. The neck need not be so long either since the wings and ribs appear to be missing and the strong kink is the cervico-dorsal transistion. Given the broad short skull I'll tentatively go with a caprimulgiform (nightjar)of some sort but I know next to nothing of these derived dinosaurs.

It's a bird with the ability to perch. The thing with the claws is a foot.

It's from Germany, judging from the ruler.

It's not from Messel. The rock at Messel is dark brown.

If it's Solnhofen or the like, Nature Publishing Company will sue your ass, and then the rest of you, for leaking the picture during the embargo.

The sediment at Frauenweiler, where Eurotrochilus comes from, is dark grey...

Hai~Ren claims this to be a Ropen. He is very much mistaken, because this animal is clearly dead, and ropens are very much ALIVE.

This animal is the Seething Swan of Satan!

It's a plane it's a superman, NO it's a bird!
And that's as far as my identificationcan go.

Is it one of those Palaeogene coraciiforms with raptorial feet?

Basilisk, of course.

Snake forebody, foot of a bird. And everything around turned into stone.

It could be some sort of Lacertidae ??

The verts look dinosaurian, but wow, what a neck.

A sea-serpent?

An interesting and teasing puzzle. The short answer is 'I don't know', but I can't leave it at that, so...

I thought of a young/small enantiornithine or the like from China. Possibly Liaoxiornis (if that genus is valid) because of the small size. But it looks to me like it belongs in neoaves rather than one of the archaic bird groups.

So I think this is a 'modern' bird, probably from a paleogene laggerstatten. Since the text on the scale is in German, I'll guess one of the Eocene german sites, Messel being the obvious choice. David MarjanoviÄ's comment about the colour of Messel rocks being dark brown may well be generally true (indeed most of those I can find pictures of are a fairly dark) but there are exceptions - and a brief search turned up several examples of Messel fossils where the matrix is coloured similarly to the one in Darren's picture.

The picture reminds me of something I have seen in one of Gerald Mayr's papers, but a search of those available to me couldn't locate it or anything close. I was particularly thinking of some of the extinct paleogene coraciiform and Cypselomorph groups, and looked at pictures of several fossils of these and none looked right.

Since Darren states this is a fossil he has "described recently" - I assume he has bloged about this one already (unless he meant descibed officially in a journal).

Taking this evidence altogether (German Eocene + Darren has blogged on them + heavy claws, proportionately thicker than for a raptor + skull neither too deep nor with a long beak) the best fit I can come up with is an ameghinornithid, but to be honest if that scale in the picture is accurate the fossil seems way too small - I thought ameghinornithids were 40-50cm long, I doubt this bird would be half that even after a good intensive stretching session on the rack.

Now if this were a maths exam i'd probably get a couple of marks for my workings even if the answer is way out. :)

"SEA MONSTER WEEK" - is that cryptozoology or more ichthysaurs - please let it be both.

Strigogyps? or something of that ilk? I believe you've hinted about undescribed European pseudo-phorusrhacids in the past...

Clearly it is yet another test of faith from our Lord.

Wow! A new species of centaur!

From the left: the robust hind- and fore-legs are obvious (though contorted and incomplete); the major ribcage (subthorax) and horizontal portion of the backbone are not well-seen, but are likely embedded deeper in the matrix awaiting preparation. Or possibly in the counterpart slab?
But we see clearly here the most striking feature, the novel serpentine superthorax, gracile (reduced?) forelimbs, long neck, and dolicocephalic head (at upper right) complete with spiny horns (antennae? -a fairy centaur? -an Andorian alien centaur?). And - is that a curved bow and a spear preserved with it, one to each side? What a find!

An unusual and noteworthy high point to your career thus far, Darren. Your reputation and fortune are secure!

Have you named it yet? I wait with bated breath...

Of course, as a centaur, it's a hexapod.. not a tetrapod at all.. and thus, off-topic.

Oh.. I "just noticed the scale bar.. "Zentimeter"?
I'll just assume that translates as 'Atlantean cubit'.