Dinosaur
Dryosaurus
Some species that were formerly assigned to it are today classified in other genera.
The history of Dryosaurus includes species that later received their own place in other genera.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Dryosaurus 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
- Dryosauridae
- Dryosaurids
- Fossil locations
- United States
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Dryosaurus
This plant-eating ornithopod has a name referring to the forest. Some species once assigned to it have since been separated into Valdosaurus and Dysalotosaurus.
Some species once assigned to this genus are now placed in other genera. These revisions separate differences that early studies had grouped together. The names change as researchers refine their picture of the diversity preserved in the fossils.
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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- Dryosaurus
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- Dryosaurus
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- Dryosauridae
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