Dinosaur
Yangchuanosaurus
Its snout bore bony ridges and prominences.
Yangchuanosaurus shared its landscape with large sauropods and stegosaurs.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Yangchuanosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Metriacanthosauridae
- Metriacanthosaurids
- Fossil locations
- China
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Yangchuanosaurus
It was one of the great predators of its ecosystem. It shared the landscape with sauropods such as Mamenchisaurus and various stegosaurs, and its general appearance was reminiscent of Allosaurus.
Its snout bore bony ridges and prominences. Knowing animals from the same environment helps rebuild a more complete ecosystem. It is not equivalent to knowing which individual encountered which or which prey a specific predator captured.
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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- Yangchuanosaurus
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- Metriacanthosauridae
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