Dinosaur
Plateosaurus
It had prehensile hands with large claws, as well as powerful hind legs.
Plateosaurus belonged to an early branch of the dinosaur group that would later include the giant long-necked sauropods.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Plateosaurus 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
- Triassic
- Group
- Plateosauridae
- Plateosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Germany
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Plateosaurus
It belonged to an early branch of sauropodomorphs, prior to the large sauropods. The revision of its species has even changed which one is used as a reference for the genus.
It had grasping hands with large claws and powerful hind legs. These features show that it was not simply a small version of a later sauropod: related animals can have very different builds.
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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- Plateosaurus
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- Plateosaurus
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- Plateosauridae
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