“Ladies and gentlemen, we're pleased to announce the arrival of our new and exotic herbivore from North Africa; Ouranosaurus stands out from the crowd, with her colorful sail and fun-loving attitude. Please enjoy this magnificent dinosaur.”
Ouranosaurus is a herbivorous dinosaur in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis found in the Chenini Formation dig site.
Behavior[]
Ouranosaurus is a playful Late Cretaceous ornithopod that enjoys living with other herbivores, especially with other Hadrosaurs, like Edmontosaurus, which is surprising as they would never have encountered each other in real life, being from different time periods and continents. Ouranosaurus also works well with other communities of herbivores, with the only exception being Kentrosaurus. They have a length of 7 meters.
Being the only herbivore from the Chenini formation, it is a common prey item for them.
In real life[]
Ouranosaurus comes from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation in Niger in Western Africa, sometime earlier than Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus and may not have encountered them. Originally a part of the Iguanodont family, it has recently been considered a transitional evolution between Iguanodontids and Hadrosaurs. The raised spines on Ouranosaurus have been debated ever since its discovery in the 1960s and 70s. Paleontologists are split between the spines supporting a colorful sail, while others argue it is in fact a fatty hump like a camel's.
Ouranosaurus lived alongside other ornithopods such as Lurdusaurus and Elrhazosaurus, the sauropod Nigersaurus and the theropods Suchomimus, Eocarcharia and Kryptops.
Trivia[]
- It is the only herbivore in its dig site.
- Interestingly, Ouranosaurus will cause the ground to shake when it walks, but the larger Edmontosaurus does not.
- It is also the only ornithopod in the game that's in the Iguanodont family, others are in the Hadrosaur family, with the exception of Dryosaurus. However recent evidence has pointed that it could have been a basal Hadrosaur.
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