Ceratosaurus

Classification

Diet	Carnivore
Habitat	Terrestrial
Era	Late Jurassic
Family	Ceratosauridae
Genus	Ceratosaurus
Bio Group	Large Carnivore

Size

Height (m)	3
Length (m)	9
Weight (kg)	1,000

Rating

Base Appeal	68
Appeal (Per $1MM)	123.6
Appeal (Per Hectare)	61.5

Ceratosaurus

Median

Stats

Lifespan	58 - 72
Resilience	33
Attack	85
Defence	28
Medical Dart Resistance	106
Sedative Resistance	106
Poison Resistance	100

Environmental Needs

Comfort threshold	55%
Grassland (m²)	17700	80%
Forest (m²)	4400	20%

Social Group	1 - 3
Ideal Population	0 - 20

Unlock requirements

Unlocked by retrieving the fossil from one of the following dig sites:

Dig Sites	Fossil Quality	Fossil Quantity	Locations	Duration	Cost
Morrison Formation	★★	4	North America \| USA \| Colorado	02:00	$75,000
	★★★	3
	★	1
Lourinhã Formation	★	2	Europe \| Portugal \| Lourinhã	02:00	$90,000
	★★★	4
	★★	6

Incubation

Duration	03:45 - 04:10
Cost	550,000

Disease

Immune	Bracken Poisoning
Susceptible	Campylobacter

Description

Ceratosaurus was a large theropod dinosaur. It possessed an unusual configuration of hornlets over its eyes, and a blade-shaped horn on its snout. Its name means 'horned lizard'. An unusual feature of Ceratosaurus was the dermal armor in the middle of its back.

Discovery

Ceratosaurus was found in the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah, and from the Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado. It was first described in 1884. Later finds occurred in Portugal, as well as fragments in the Morrison Formation.

Paleoecology

The Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is a mudstone site on the floodplain for a river system. The Dry Mesa Quarry site appears to have been a mass grave as a result of a drought, followed by a flash flood.