Dinosaur
Ampelosaurus
As well as a long neck and tail, it had bony plates in its skin, called osteoderms.
Ampelosaurus was a long-necked dinosaur with bony plates in its skin.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Ampelosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Titanosauria
- Titanosaurs
- Fossil locations
- France, Spain
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Ampelosaurus
It combined a long neck and tail with bony plates on the skin. The hundreds of bones assigned to the genus include articulated material and parts of the skull.
Alongside its long neck and tail, it had osteoderms: bony plates embedded in the skin. Bones found still joined together show how parts of the body fitted. Skull fragments add especially valuable clues to those provided by its backbone and limbs.
Titanosaurs were long-necked sauropods. The group includes giants and relatively small species; membership of the group does not automatically determine body size.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Ampelosaurus atacis
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- Ampelosaurus
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- Titanosauria
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