Dinosaur
Caudipteryx
Its skeleton combined avian-looking features with primitive features in the pelvis and shoulder.
Caudipteryx combined feathers and long legs with a mix of features that helps researchers explore the origins of birds.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Caudipteryx at a glance
- Diet
- Mainly herbivorous
- It belonged to a theropod branch that developed adaptations associated with a plant-based diet; being a theropod does not necessarily mean being a hunter.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Oviraptorosauria
- Oviraptorosaurs
- Fossil locations
- China
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Caudipteryx
It had feathers, a compact trunk and long legs, with a very avian appearance. Its findings prompted new studies into the evolutionary relationship between birds and other dinosaurs.
Its skeleton combined avian-looking features with primitive features in the pelvis and shoulder. The outward resemblance is just the beginning. The pelvis and shoulder preserve details that allow its kinship to be compared more accurately than a feathered silhouette.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
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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- Caudipteryx
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- Caudipteryx
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- Oviraptorosauria
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