Dinosaur
Datousaurus
The description of the animal is supported by two partial skeletons.
Datousaurus is reconstructed from two partial skeletons found in a dinosaur-rich landscape.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Datousaurus 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
- Jurassic
- Group
- Eusauropoda
- Eusauropods
- Fossil locations
- China
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Datousaurus
It shared its landscape with other sauropods and the stegosaur Huayangosaurus. Its name combines a reference to a “chief” with a play on words about its large head.
The description of the animal is supported by two partial skeletons. The comparison with other sauropods and with Huayangosaurus allows it to be placed in a group of animals. The name also has a particular reference to its large head.
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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- Datousaurus bashanensis
Wikipedia contributors · Spanish source
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- Datousaurus
Wikipedia contributors · English source
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- Eusauropoda
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- Living birds
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Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.
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