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Xuanhanosaurus Danger Pack
Xuanhanosaurus joined Jurassic World Dino Trackers in Danger Pack wave 2, alongside Piatnitzkysaurus and Tupandactylus. It is a Jurassic predator from China famous for one thing: unusually big, strong arms, so strong that the scientist who named it wondered if it walked on all fours. Mattel’s figure gives it a pale grey body, a shaggy brown feathered mane and long clawed arms. Here is what it looks like, how the four-legs idea turned out, and how to unlock it in the Jurassic World Play App.
🦖 Jurassic hunter💪 Extra-strong arms🔋 No batteries🧬 DNA scan code
Two Legs or Four?
When Dong Zhiming described Xuanhanosaurus in 1984, its arms were so powerful that he suggested it might have walked on all four legs. If true, it would have been the only four-legged meat-eating dinosaur ever found. Here is where the evidence points today.
What Is Danger Pack?
Danger Pack is the smaller, battery-free assortment of Mattel’s Dino Trackers line, built around animals that lived, hunted or moved in groups. The figures have movable joints and a hidden tracking code for the app, but no sounds or motorised attacks. Wave 2 brought Xuanhanosaurus, Piatnitzkysaurus and Tupandactylus.
Danger Pack has continued in later Jurassic World lines, and it is the easiest way to build a big Dino Trackers collection on a budget.
Paint and Colours
A striking two-tone look, a bit like a wolf. Most of the body, legs and tail are pale grey, while a shaggy mane of dark brown feathers covers the neck, shoulders, back and arms. The tip of the snout is black, there are small black bumps on top of the head, and a yellow eye peers out from under a grey brow.
Sculpt and Detail
Head and mane
The head is boxy with a short, dark snout and a row of teeth. The feathered mane over the neck and shoulders gives it a rugged, shaggy look. Both the head and the feathers are Mattel’s reconstruction: no skull of Xuanhanosaurus has ever been found.
The arms
The arms are the standout: long, feathered and ending in big, hooked claws, held forward ready to grab. That matches the real animal’s best-known feature, its unusually large and robust forelimbs. The legs are lean and grey with clawed feet.
Where is the head?
Action Features and Articulation
✓ Movable joints✓ Hidden tracking code✓ No batteries needed✗ No sound or attack motion
Like every Danger Pack figure, Xuanhanosaurus keeps things simple: movable joints for posing and play, no electronics, and a tracking code hidden on the figure for the app. The long clawed arms make it great for grappling battles with other figures.
Size and Specs
Sold in the HLN49 Danger Pack assortment, for ages 4 and up. It pairs naturally with Piatnitzkysaurus from the same wave, two Jurassic hunters from opposite sides of the world.
Is It Worth Buying?
Xuanhanosaurus is a great pick for collectors who like rare species and for kids who want something that looks different from the usual green or brown predators. The grey and brown feathered look is unusual and stylish, the clawed arms are great for play, and it needs no batteries.
It is mostly found second hand now.
What we like
- Rare Jurassic species
- Long, strong clawed arms like the real animal
- Unusual grey and brown feathered look
- No batteries needed
Good to know
- Head shape is guesswork (no skull found)
- No sound or attack motion
- Small size
About Xuanhanosaurus
Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis was named in 1984 by Chinese palaeontologist Dong Zhiming. Its name comes from Xuanhan County in Sichuan Province, China, and the species name from the town of Qilixia, where it was found in the Lower Shaximiao Formation.
It lived in the Middle Jurassic, roughly 167 to 163 million years ago, in a landscape of lakes and forests it shared with the stegosaur Huayangosaurus, the sauropod Shunosaurus and another predator, Gasosaurus. It was about 4.5 m long and around 250 kg.
It is known from a partial skeleton without a skull. Its place in the family tree is still debated: it has been grouped with the megalosaurs and, more recently, with the metriacanthosaurids, relatives of Sinraptor.
How to Unlock Xuanhanosaurus in the Jurassic World Play App
Open the Jurassic World Play App (it used to be called the Jurassic World Facts App), tap Scan and point your camera at the DNA code below. The same code is on a small tag on the figure’s back.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Danger Pack figures have no electronics. Xuanhanosaurus has movable joints and a hidden tracking code for the app.
Probably not. Its describer suggested it in 1984 because of its powerful arms, but later scientists found its forearms could not support walking. It walked on two legs.
SHWAN-han-oh-SORE-us. It means Xuanhan lizard, after the county in Sichuan, China, where it was found.
No. It is known from a partial skeleton without a skull, so its head shape is reconstructed from relatives.
About 4.5 m long and around 250 kg.
Open the Jurassic World Play App, tap Scan and point your camera at the tag on the figure’s back, or at the copy of the code on this page.