Dinosaur
Eoraptor
Its hands had five fingers, although two were much smaller.
Eoraptor was small, light, and lived very early in dinosaur history.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Eoraptor at a glance
- Diet
- Omnivore (proposed)
- The shape of its teeth has led researchers to propose a mixed diet. It illustrates that early dinosaurs did not all eat the same foods.
- When it lived
- Triassic
- Group
- Sauropodomorpha
- Sauropodomorphs
- Fossil locations
- Argentina
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Eoraptor
This small, lightly built dinosaur is known from a nearly complete skeleton. Its different kinds of teeth suggest an omnivorous diet early in dinosaur evolution.
Its hands had five fingers, although two were greatly reduced. Its different teeth suggest a varied diet, without turning that interpretation into an exact menu. The almost complete skeleton allows the mouth to be related to the hands and the rest of the body.
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.A note on the science
Its hands had five fingers, although two were greatly reduced. Its different teeth suggest a varied diet, without turning that interpretation into an exact menu. The almost complete skeleton allows the mouth to be related to the hands and the rest of the body.
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- Eoraptor lunensis
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- Eoraptor
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- Sauropodomorpha
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- Living birds
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