Dinosaur
Alxasaurus
Alxasaurus was a therizinosaur with a small head and long, clawed forelimbs.
Alxasaurus was a therizinosaur with a small head and long, clawed forelimbs. Its anatomy helped connect the strange-looking therizinosaurs more securely with other theropod dinosaurs.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Alxasaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Early Cretaceous
- Group
- Therizinosauroidea
- Therizinosauroidea
Beyond the game
The real Alxasaurus
Alxasaurus was a therizinosaur with a small head and long, clawed forelimbs. Its anatomy helped connect the strange-looking therizinosaurs more securely with other theropod dinosaurs.
Its skeleton helped establish the relationship of therizinosaurs to other theropods. The large claws were only part of an animal whose small head and feeding anatomy tell a different story from a typical predator.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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