Baryonyx

Baryonyx walkeri
Exhibit
Exhibit Crowding	TBA
Temperature	TBA °C
Fence Security	Strength TBA
Exhibit
Plant Biomes	TBA
Forest	TBA
Water	TBA
Social
Group Size	TBA
Diet
Fish
Creation
Breeding Cost	TBA
Digsites
Digsites	Wessex Formation

Baryonyx walkeri is a medium-sized piscivorous theropod that lived in Britain during the Early Cretaceous.

It is yet to be added to Prehistoric Kingdom.

In-Game

Description

Baryonyx is a medium-sized theropod dinosaur, measuring up to 10 meters in length and standing just over 2 meters in height. A rather small member of the Spinosauridae family, Baryonyx has many of the traits that have made its family a famous staple of the Mesozoic: A long-slender snout lined with sharp, conical teeth, large bulky claws and raised vertebrae.

Management

To be announced.

In-Game Trivia

Nigel Marven

Nigel Marven

Nigel Marven

Nigel Marven

Paleontology

Baryonyx walkeri was discovered in 1983 by the British amateur fossil collector and plumber William Walker; it was later named in 1986 by paleontologists Alan Charig and Angela Milner and its name means "Walker’s Heavy Claw" in reference to its large claw in its first finger, which was most likely used to impale and dismember large fish it couldn't process in its jaws.

Paleoecology

Because of the shape of the teeth and snout, Baryonyx and its relatives are often compared to modern crocodiles, with its diet being almost universally believed to largely be composed of fish. Owing to this comparison, Baryonyx is assumed to have spent much of its time wading through the shallows of rivers and using its sharp teeth and long arms to "fish" for food as well as its large hooked ungual or claw, located on the innermost digit of its hand. Despite its similarities to crocodiles and believed diet, Baryonyx skeletons have been found with the remains of the ornithopod Iguanodon within its belly, implying either a predatory relationship with juveniles of the hardy species or a tendency to scavenge from larger meals.

Gallery

• Development

A Baryonyx in a Tropical enclosure at night.

A Baryonyx looking around a Tropical enclosure.

A Baryonyx looking around a Tropical enclosure.

Smoked Sail

Riverbed

Swamp

A render of a Baryonyx with the Riverbed skin.

A render comparing an outdated Baryonyx model to a newer model, as seen in the September 2019 Devlog.

All Baryonyx Skins.

Baryonyx Species Render, as seen in the July 2019 Devlog.

Baryonyx Walk Animation, as seen in the February 2020 Devlog.

Baryonyx Run Animation, as seen in the February 2020 Devlog.

Concept Art of Baryonyx.

SFX Update- Baryonyx

Baryonyx Sounds.

Trivia

• Baryonyx is one of the few primarily piscivorous animals confirmed to appear in Prehistoric Kingdom, alongside its larger cousin Spinosaurus.
• Baryonyx's old species render lists its formation as the Wessex Formation, alongside Iguanodon. However, in 2021, it was determined that the fossils in this formation assigned to Baryonyx belonged to a pair of new spinosaurs, Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator.
• Baryonyx is the favorite dinosaur of Prehistoric Kingdom's composer and sound designer, Byron McKay.