Dinosaur
Yuxisaurus
Yuxisaurus takes us to an early stage in dinosaur armor history.
Yuxisaurus takes us to an early stage in dinosaur armor history. Many bony plates protected its body, but not necessarily in the same arrangement as the best-known ankylosaurs. It was an early thyreophoran, part of the broad armored-dinosaur group.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Yuxisaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Probably herbivorous
- Its fossils and relatives suggest a plant-based diet.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Thyreophora
- Thyreophorans
- Fossil locations
- Yunnan
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Yuxisaurus
Yuxisaurus lived during the Early Jurassic. Its fossils and relatives suggest a plant-based diet.
It is known from a partial skeleton and many plates from Yunnan, China. The rocks date to the Early Jurassic, long before the end of the Cretaceous when several famous armored dinosaurs lived.
Finding early forms helps researchers study how body plates appeared and changed. Armor was not always a copy of the same design: different branches developed their own combinations and proportions.
Finding early forms helps researchers study how body plates appeared and changed. Armor was not always a copy of the same design: different branches developed their own combinations and proportions.
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
Yuxisaurus lived during the Early Jurassic. Its fossils and relatives suggest a plant-based diet.
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