Dinosaur
Uteodon
Uteodon’s story began with a skeleton that spent years under another name.
Uteodon’s story began with a skeleton that spent years under another name. Its plant-eating body combined strong hind legs, shorter arms and a long tail. It was part of the Jurassic’s diverse plant-eating fauna, alongside giant sauropods and armored dinosaurs, but had a very different anatomy.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Uteodon at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- It was a plant eater.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Iguanodontia
- Iguanodontians
- Fossil locations
- Utah
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Uteodon
Its remains come from Utah’s Morrison Formation. The specimen was first linked to Camptosaurus; a reassessment of its bones led to the name Uteodon being proposed in 2011.
Classifying a fossil involves more than checking whether it looks like another dinosaur. Researchers compare details across many bones, and may change a name when those differences point to a separate branch of the family tree.
Classifying a fossil involves more than checking whether it looks like another dinosaur. Researchers compare details across many bones, and may change a name when those differences point to a separate branch of the family tree.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
Its remains come from Utah’s Morrison Formation. The specimen was first linked to Camptosaurus; a reassessment of its bones led to the name Uteodon being proposed in 2011.
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