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DinoFrontier · Field guide
Prehistoric creature guide
Every species in DinoFrontier is a real animal. Here is what scientists know about each one: when it lived, how big it got, what it ate and where its fossils were found, plus where to meet it on the server.
10 species
On land
Dinosaurs from giant sauropods to chicken-sized hunters.
About the size of a turkey, with feathers and a big curved claw on each foot.
Three horns, a bony frill and a beak made for cropping tough plants.
Grazes the treetops and ignores you completely.
Those tail spikes were a real weapon. One Allosaurus bone has a hole that matches them.
A small hunter. One fossil still has a whole lizard in its stomach.
A fast, beaked plant-eater about the weight of a pig. In DinoFrontier it replaces pigs.
A crow-sized dinosaur with flight feathers on all four limbs and glossy black plumage.
One of the smallest plant-eating dinosaurs ever found, under a kilogram.
"Lori", a feathered, big-eyed little hunter from the wetlands of Jurassic Wyoming.
3 species
In the sky
Pterosaurs: flying reptiles, close cousins of the dinosaurs but not dinosaurs themselves.
Wings about 10 metres across, and as tall as a giraffe on the ground.
The name means "toothless wing". It caught fish at sea, probably by diving for them.
A big-headed early pterosaur, first found by Mary Anning on the Dorset coast.
6 species
In the sea
Marine reptiles, a turtle and cephalopods. None of them are dinosaurs, but all of them shared the Mesozoic oceans.
Not a dinosaur but a giant sea lizard, over 12 metres long. Think twice before swimming out.
A short-necked pliosaur with a huge skull. Real size about 6–7 metres, not the 25 of the documentaries.
A dolphin-shaped ichthyosaur with some of the largest eyes for its size of any animal. It replaces dolphins.
A Late Jurassic coastal sea turtle from the shallow seas of Europe. It replaces vanilla turtles.
The biggest known belemnite: a squid-like animal with ten hooked arms. It replaces squid.
A Jurassic relative of the living vampire squid. In DinoFrontier it replaces glow squid.
3 species
In rivers & swamps
A giant crocodile, a shark and a lungfish that breathed air.
Around nine metres of crocodile, waiting at the riverbank.
A 2-metre shark of rivers and coasts, with spines in front of both back fins.
An air-breathing lungfish whose tooth plates are the commonest fish fossil in Morrison rivers. It replaces salmon.