Dinosaur
Zalmoxes
This Transylvanian plant eater shows how much there is to discover among smaller dinosaurs too.
This Transylvanian plant eater shows how much there is to discover among smaller dinosaurs too. It was relatively small and sturdy, with strong hind legs and a beaked mouth. Its size and anatomy set it apart from the enormous sauropods and large horned dinosaurs often used to represent all plant eaters.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Zalmoxes at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- It was a plant eater.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Ornithischia
- Ornithischians
- Fossil locations
- Romania
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Zalmoxes
Many remains have been found in Transylvania, Romania. Those landscapes belonged to a very different European geography, with land areas separated by seas.
Its precise classification remains under review. Keeping it here within the broad ornithischian group explains what is clear without presenting a disputed family relationship as a final conclusion.
Its precise classification remains under review. Keeping it here within the broad ornithischian group explains what is clear without presenting a disputed family relationship as a final conclusion.
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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