Dinosaur
Gonkoken
Gonkoken was an early-diverging hadrosauroid from southern South America.
Gonkoken was an early-diverging hadrosauroid from southern South America. Its skeleton combines a duck-billed appearance with features that distinguish it from the more specialized hadrosaurids.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Gonkoken at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Late Cretaceous
- Group
- Hadrosauroidea
- Hadrosauroidea
Beyond the game
The real Gonkoken
Gonkoken was an early-diverging hadrosauroid from southern South America. Its skeleton combines a duck-billed appearance with features that distinguish it from the more specialized hadrosaurids.
Its anatomy combines a duck-billed appearance with characters outside the more specialised hadrosaurid body plan. The fossil adds evidence from southern South America to the history of these dinosaurs.
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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