Dinosaur
Erketu
Its neck was unusually long; less is known about the proportions of the rest of its body.
Erketu had an extraordinarily long neck. Much less is known about the rest of its body.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Erketu 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
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Somphospondyli
- Somphospondylans
- Fossil locations
- Mongolia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Erketu
Its remains were collected on expeditions in 2002 and 2003. Neck vertebrae recovered during separate trips allowed its description and later filled in more of its anatomy.
Its neck was extraordinarily long; the proportions of the rest of the body are less known. The vertebrae collected in different campaigns added pieces to the reconstruction. Knowing one region of the skeleton well does not guarantee that the proportions of the others are equally certain.
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 neck was extraordinarily long; the proportions of the rest of the body are less known. The vertebrae collected in different campaigns added pieces to the reconstruction. Knowing one region of the skeleton well does not guarantee that the proportions of the others are equally certain.
Sources & text credits
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- Erketu ellisoni
Wikipedia contributors · Spanish source
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- Erketu
Wikipedia contributors · English source
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- Somphospondyli
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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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