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Family: Sauropodomorph (or Prosauropod for old guys in the 90s like me)
Scientific Name: Campipastorodon
Size: Females generally grow up to 70 feet long and 35 feet tall bipedally, then stopping around this size, reaching around 33-35 tons. Bulls grow up to 100 feet long and 45 feet tall bipedally, also reaching up to 55 tons.
Speed: The massive beasts jog up to 20 mph max, not being the fastest beast on the plains.
Lifespan: 130-140 years generally.
Diet: Mainly herbivorous, 80% of its diet is the Phoenix Fire Grass, along with shrubs and other leafy plants in the plains, open woodlands and deserts, though the greatest population size is in the North American Prairie. It will happily consume broad leaves from trees, like aspens and maples where and when it can browse while other herbivores consume lower plants. But will also tear dead wood apart with its huge front claws to eat fungi and insects, along with scavenging carcasses to broaden its diet and gain extra nutrition that plants usually lack.
Social/Parenting: In groups, there is usually a family herd of females, usually related with their numbers being between 4-10, of varying ages with the oldest female being the matriarch of the group, along with a bull walking with the group to protect them from predators and stick around to mate during the mating season. This is great for defense against predators, leading to other smaller herbivore species to gather around the family herd. The prosauropods actually are welcoming to other herbivores, usually ungulates and smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, which these groups can go up to 200+ animals around this group. The reason why these huge beasts let the other herbivores to be around them is that this allows their young to have better protection and to have play mates. The eggs develop mostly in the females bodies before being laid in a nest that the eggs stay in for up to 2 weeks before they hatch. These eggs stay in the mothers bodies longer than most other dinosaurs due to the migratory lifestyle, so that way the time needed for egg care is short and the young are able to walk and run as soon as they hatch. The young will bond with other herbivores, which allows them to stay close to the herd in case there's danger and the young need to run with the herd while the adults deal with the threat. If a Ootrikaron herd doesn't have a massive herd of other animals with them, they will usually go on the defensive instead of the offensive. After 10 years of being with their family, females stay with the family herd usually, but are known to move to different groups to avoid inbreeding, with them reaching maturity at 20 years of age. Males leave their home herd and join bachelor herds until they are 25 years of age, for that is when they reach maturity. Males will then go out on their own to go find their own herd to stay with, usually challenging a resident bull to a fight, which can sometimes get lethal.
Conflicts: With humanoids, there are rare complaints of a migrating herd that consumes crop on some very rural and far away farm. But as long as respect and distance are maintained, no issues should occur. It has been known to fight predators and the Ngoubou ceratopsian because it will target younglings, so it will use its claws to grapple the beasts horns to expose the throat so the rest of the herd can go into tear it open. This usually ends in a stand off and both sides getting well deserved scars. One of the very few predators that can hunt adults is the Dzoavits, the Tyrannosaur that dominates most of the North American continent. These fights are legendary and it takes a full herd of bring down a lone Dzoavits...but a pair of Dzoavits would the greatest threat to a herd, even at full strength.
Artist is: https://mobile.twitter.com/GeekGoji
Scientific Name: Campipastorodon
Size: Females generally grow up to 70 feet long and 35 feet tall bipedally, then stopping around this size, reaching around 33-35 tons. Bulls grow up to 100 feet long and 45 feet tall bipedally, also reaching up to 55 tons.
Speed: The massive beasts jog up to 20 mph max, not being the fastest beast on the plains.
Lifespan: 130-140 years generally.
Diet: Mainly herbivorous, 80% of its diet is the Phoenix Fire Grass, along with shrubs and other leafy plants in the plains, open woodlands and deserts, though the greatest population size is in the North American Prairie. It will happily consume broad leaves from trees, like aspens and maples where and when it can browse while other herbivores consume lower plants. But will also tear dead wood apart with its huge front claws to eat fungi and insects, along with scavenging carcasses to broaden its diet and gain extra nutrition that plants usually lack.
Social/Parenting: In groups, there is usually a family herd of females, usually related with their numbers being between 4-10, of varying ages with the oldest female being the matriarch of the group, along with a bull walking with the group to protect them from predators and stick around to mate during the mating season. This is great for defense against predators, leading to other smaller herbivore species to gather around the family herd. The prosauropods actually are welcoming to other herbivores, usually ungulates and smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, which these groups can go up to 200+ animals around this group. The reason why these huge beasts let the other herbivores to be around them is that this allows their young to have better protection and to have play mates. The eggs develop mostly in the females bodies before being laid in a nest that the eggs stay in for up to 2 weeks before they hatch. These eggs stay in the mothers bodies longer than most other dinosaurs due to the migratory lifestyle, so that way the time needed for egg care is short and the young are able to walk and run as soon as they hatch. The young will bond with other herbivores, which allows them to stay close to the herd in case there's danger and the young need to run with the herd while the adults deal with the threat. If a Ootrikaron herd doesn't have a massive herd of other animals with them, they will usually go on the defensive instead of the offensive. After 10 years of being with their family, females stay with the family herd usually, but are known to move to different groups to avoid inbreeding, with them reaching maturity at 20 years of age. Males leave their home herd and join bachelor herds until they are 25 years of age, for that is when they reach maturity. Males will then go out on their own to go find their own herd to stay with, usually challenging a resident bull to a fight, which can sometimes get lethal.
Conflicts: With humanoids, there are rare complaints of a migrating herd that consumes crop on some very rural and far away farm. But as long as respect and distance are maintained, no issues should occur. It has been known to fight predators and the Ngoubou ceratopsian because it will target younglings, so it will use its claws to grapple the beasts horns to expose the throat so the rest of the herd can go into tear it open. This usually ends in a stand off and both sides getting well deserved scars. One of the very few predators that can hunt adults is the Dzoavits, the Tyrannosaur that dominates most of the North American continent. These fights are legendary and it takes a full herd of bring down a lone Dzoavits...but a pair of Dzoavits would the greatest threat to a herd, even at full strength.
Artist is: https://mobile.twitter.com/GeekGoji
Category Artwork (Digital) / Doodle
Species Dinosaur
Size 2634 x 1399px
File Size 2.31 MB
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