Dinosaur
Europelta
Europelta was an armored plant-eating dinosaur with a broad body and protective bony coverings.
Europelta was an armored plant-eating dinosaur with a broad body and protective bony coverings. It belonged to a branch of ankylosaurs that did not carry the familiar heavy tail club.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Europelta at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Early Cretaceous
- Group
- Ankylosauria
- Ankylosauria
Beyond the game
The real Europelta
Europelta was an armored plant-eating dinosaur with a broad body and protective bony coverings. It belonged to a branch of ankylosaurs that did not carry the familiar heavy tail club.
The armor and skull provide distinctive anatomical evidence within the nodosaurid branch. Its tail lacked the heavy club associated with a different group of ankylosaurs.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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