Dinosaur
Elrhazosaurus
This little plant eater from Niger adds an African piece to the dryosaurid story.
This little plant eater from Niger adds an African piece to the dryosaurid story. It was a small ornithopod, a branch of dinosaurs that included many plant eaters able to move on their hind legs. It is reconstructed with long legs, short arms and a balancing tail, but few of its bones are known.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Elrhazosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- It was a plant eater.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Dryosauridae
- Dryosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Niger
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Elrhazosaurus
The fossils come from Niger, Africa. They were first compared with Valdosaurus, known from Europe; studying their differences led to a separate African genus being named.
Finding relatives on different continents helps researchers investigate ancient land connections. It does not mean the species were identical, or that the continents then had the boundaries shown on a modern map.
Finding relatives on different continents helps researchers investigate ancient land connections. It does not mean the species were identical, or that the continents then had the boundaries shown on a modern map.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
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