People often confuse this animal, the Giganotosaurus, with the Tyrannosaurus. They look similar, act similar, and both have that "eat everything within their field of vision" thing working with them. This dinosaur is also fast. Bottom line: if you find yourself running from this biggie, you've already made a fatal mistake. |
Giganotosaurus is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur in the Jurassic World Evolution series. Originating from Late Cretaceous South America, Giganotosaurus is one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered.
In Evolution, Giganotosaurus is unlocked in Campaign Mode upon completion of the Security Division mission on Isla Pena. In Evolution 2, the Dominion Biosyn Expansion DLC pack released the 2022 skin variant.
History
During the Late Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, a resting Giganotosaurus allowed a Moros intrepidus to scavenge morsels between its teeth before it woke up to scare off a grazing Iguanodon as well as fight and kill a Tyrannosaurus.[1]
While InGen was not known to have cloned Giganotosaurus for either Jurassic Park or Jurassic World, by 2012, the company had possession of the carnivore's genetic material. This was later used, along with the DNA of numerous other species, to create the genetically modified superpredator known as the Indominus rex,[2] which was responsible for the destruction of Jurassic World in 2015.[3]
One adult Giganotosaurus was the apex predator of the sanctuary created by BioSyn, and it attempted to kill Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, Owen Grady, Claire Dearing, Maisie Lockwood, and Kayla Watts when they walked into its territory. The Giganotosaurus also developed a rivalry with the sanctuary's recently added female Tyrannosaurus from Isla Nublar, and the Tyrannosaurus would eventually kill the Giganotosaurus with the aid of a Therizinosaurus.[1]
Characteristics
Giganotosaurus is a powerful and large predatory dinosaur, believed to be at least as large as the infamous Tyrannosaurus. At around 7 tons in weight and 15 meters in length, it is one of the largest theropods and terrestrial carnivores ever to have lived. While it has a similar appearance to Allosaurus as well as other allosauroid theropods, Giganotosaurus has a distinctive long sloping face with rows of long, serrated teeth and a powerful jaw for tearing into its prey, three-fingered arms, and spikes running down its back from head to tail end. Its name translates to āGiant Southern Lizardā, in reference to its large frame and its South American habitat. It once roamed what is now Argentina and likely hunted juvenile sauropods. It was also homeothermic, meaning that it could generate heat internally.
In Evolution, the base genome seems to be dirty yellow with red crests over its eyes and light-brown stripe like patterns across its body. In Evolution 2, the base genome is swampy green and light brown underside. When the Dominion Biosyn Expansion DLC pack was released, so was the 2022 dark brownish/grayish green skin variant of Giganotosaurus; large brow crests, a row of spines on its back from head to tail end, and the hump-like display that rises and continues the spines.
Gameplay
Evolution
Behaviour
Giganotosaurus is more tolerant of others of its own kind, and in contrast to Tyrannosaurus, will happily live in pairs. Like other giant carnivores, it's a powerful animal and needs strong fences to contain it.
Available genomes
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Skins
Paleontology
Giganotosaurus was originally discovered by amateur paleontologist and fossil collector, RubĆ©n D. Carolini, in 1993 when he was searching for bones in NeuquĆ©n, Argentina. Carolini's first find was a thigh bone belonging to an unknown large theropod, which led to further exploration of the area ā the following year, numerous related artefacts were excavated that confirmed that this was a new genus. So far only one substantial skeleton of Giganotosaurus has been discovered. The discovery was officially recorded by paleontologist Rodolfo Coria in 1995. A team led by Coria and funded by American Paleontologist Don Lessem uncovered roughly seventy percent of the animal. It was soon declared the largest theropod ever discovered, rivaling Tyrannosaurus in size, though Spinosaurus, a slightly larger theropod would soon be discovered and re-examined in the following years.
One of the largest terrestrial carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered ā growing between 12 and 13 m (39 and 43 ft) in length and weighing 7 t (15,432 lb) ā Giganotosaurus is a member of the Carcharodontosauridae family, which evolved in the Late Jurassic and are related to genus such as Allosaurus. The family's earliest genus, Veterupristisaurus, evolved in Late Jurassic Tanzania and in the Early to Mid Cretaceous, Carcharodontosaurids could be found in Africa, Europe, Asia and both North and South America. During the Late Cretaceous, they started dying out in Laurasia (the name for the ancient Northern Hemisphere), with the last Laurasian species, Shaochilong, being found in modern China. However, they thrived in the southern continents of Gondwana for a time, though little evidence of them is known by the Campanian stage of the Cretaceous, roughly 85 million years before present day. Other interesting species include the slightly smaller Carcharodontosaurus from northern Africa, the high-spine Acrocanthosaurus from North America, and the smaller, humpbacked Concavenator from Europe.
In packs, the Giganotosaurus could possibly have taken down larger sauropods. The bite of Giganotosaurus was weaker than Tyrannosaurus and instead, it would have relied on its 76 sharp, serrated teeth to inflict deep, bleeding wounds to weaken prey instead of utilizing brute strength to bite through thick armor. This is because the prey Giganotosaurus targeted often lacked armor, but were very robust and densely muscled, meaning a crushing bite force would be ineffective and instead, multiple bites would be employed to cause death by blood loss and shock. This is common in many carnosaurs, such as Allosaurus. It also differentiates them from the Coelurosaurian Tyrannosaurs.
Paleoecology
Giganotosaurus was discovered in the Candeleros Formation, which had a fluvial environment consisting of swampy lowlands with rivers and streams. Likely to have been the apex predator of the Late Cretaceous period approximately 110ā90 million years ago, Giganotosaurus lived in southern Argentina. There, it lived alongside many other species of dinosaurs, such as titanosaurs (including some of the largest sauropod dinosaurs ever like Argentinosaurus and Andesaurus along with medium-sized sauropods like Limaysaurus) as well as large ornithopods, pterosaurs, and crocodyliforms such as Araripesuchus. Other theropod dinosaurs included abelisaurid Ekrixinatosaurus, dromaeosaurid Buitreraptor, and alvarezsauroid Alnashetri. Giganotosaurus fed on large herbivores of the period, mainly attacking juveniles due to their smaller size.
Behind the scenes
At launch, the Giganotosaurus was considerably smaller than both Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus. In response to community feedback, Giganotosaurus's size was increased to be the same as the Tyrannosaurus in Update 1.4.[4]
Gallery
References
- ā 1.0 1.1 Trevorrow, Colin. (Director). (2022). Jurassic World Dominion [Film]. Universal Pictures.
- ā Indominus rex. Jurassic World. Archived from the original on December 24, 2017.
- ā Trevorrow, Colin. (Director). (2015). Jurassic World [Film]. Universal Pictures.
- ā Marit, Bo. [Bo_Frontier]. (August 16, 2018). Important News about Dinosaur Sizes [Online forum post]. Reddit. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
External links
- Giganotosaurus on Wikipedia