Dinosaur
Daspletosaurus
Its jaws were equipped with dozens of large, sharp teeth.
Daspletosaurus brings together several species that allow us to investigate changes over time.
Three stages. One companion.
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AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Daspletosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Tyrannosauridae
- Tyrannosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Montana, Alberta
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Daspletosaurus
Several species have been named from fossils from Alberta and Montana. The possibility that some represent successive evolutionary changes remains a question of research.
Its jaws were equipped with dozens of large, sharp teeth. The idea of an evolutionary succession between some of them continues to be studied. Finding similarities and different ages is important, but it is not enough on its own to demonstrate a direct chain.
Tyrannosaurids were large theropods with robust skulls. The family contains several distinct genera: not every large meat-eating dinosaur was a tyrannosaur.
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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