Dinosaur
Ouranosaurus
The remains that gave rise to its description were found in Niger in 1966.
Two fairly complete fossils allowed Ouranosaurus to be reconstructed in more detail than many animals known only from fragments.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Ouranosaurus 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
- Hadrosauroidea
- Hadrosauroids
- Fossil locations
- Niger
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Ouranosaurus
It was a herbivore of around seven or eight meters. Two fairly complete fossils found in Niger allowed it to be described in 1976.
The remains that gave rise to its description were found in Niger in 1966. Its history links field work with scientific description. Finding a fossil and giving it a name are different steps, separated by the study and comparison of its remains.
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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- Ouranosaurus nigeriensis
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- Ouranosaurus
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- Hadrosauroidea
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- Living birds
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