Dinosaur
Probactrosaurus
Its beak cut plants, while rows of teeth farther back in its mouth helped crush them.
Probactrosaurus had a beak for cutting plants and cheek teeth that helped crush them.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Probactrosaurus 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
- China
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Probactrosaurus
It was an iguanodontian close to early hadrosauroids. Its name means "before Bactrosaurus", within the comparison history of duck-billed dinosaurs.
The mouth thus distributed different tasks between its parts. Its position close to the first hadrosauroids allows us to study changes in the diet of duck-billed dinosaurs.
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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- Probactrosaurus gobiensis
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- Probactrosaurus
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- Hadrosauroidea
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- Living birds
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