Dinosaur
Centrosaurus
Its neck frill had large openings and small horns around its edge.
Centrosaurus had a neck frill with large openings and small horns around its edge.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Centrosaurus 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
- Ceratopsidae
- Ceratopsids
- Fossil locations
- Canada
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Centrosaurus
Its remains are characteristic of the Dinosaur Park Formation of Canada. The currently recognized species is Centrosaurus apertus, from the end of the Cretaceous.
The shape of its neck frill distinguishes it from other horned dinosaurs. Members of the same group could have strikingly different heads while sharing the same basic structure.
This family includes large dinosaurs with beaks, frills, and horns or bony bumps. These structures help distinguish lineages, but their shape alone cannot establish each species’ behavior.
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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- Centrosaurus apertus
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- Centrosaurus
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- Ceratopsidae
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- Living birds
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