Dinosaur
Erlikosaurus
It had a beak at the front of its mouth and teeth further back.
The skull of Erlikosaurus allows us to study a mouth that had a beak in front and teeth in the back.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Erlikosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Mainly herbivorous
- It belonged to a theropod branch that developed adaptations associated with a plant-based diet; being a theropod does not necessarily mean being a hunter.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Therizinosauridae
- Therizinosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Mongolia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Erlikosaurus
It is known from a skull and fragments of the rest of its skeleton. The skull is unusually complete for a therizinosaurid, helping scientists investigate this distinctive group’s diet.
It had a beak at the front of its mouth and teeth farther back. This part is unusually complete compared with the rest of its known skeleton, helping researchers investigate therizinosaurid diets without revealing every detail 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.Sources & text credits
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- Erlikosaurus andrewsi
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- Erlikosaurus
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- Therizinosauridae
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- Living birds
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