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Craterosaurus Danger Pack
Craterosaurus is a plated dinosaur from England known from just one broken bone, which makes it one of the most mysterious animals in the whole Jurassic World toy range. Mattel added it to the second Danger Pack wave of Jurassic World Epic Evolution in 2024 as a mustard-brown stegosaur with dark plates and spikes. Here is what the figure looks like, how much is really known about it, and how to unlock it in the Jurassic World Play App.
Plated dinosaurBack spikesNo batteries🧬 DNA scan code
Evidence Bag: One Bone
Every Craterosaurus figure, drawing and model comes from a single fossil.
Later scientists recognised it as a stegosaur bone. Everything else, the plates, spikes and body, is filled in from relatives like Stegosaurus and Kentrosaurus.
What Is Danger Pack?
Danger Pack is the smaller, battery-free assortment of Mattel’s Epic Evolution line, the 2024 follow-up to Dino Trackers. The figures have movable joints and a DNA code that unlocks the animal in the Jurassic World Play App, but no sounds or motorised attacks.
Craterosaurus came in the second Danger Pack wave of 2024, alongside Kileskus and the brick-red Velociraptor.
Paint and Colours
Earthy and warm. The body is a mustard brown with darker patches, the tall back plates and tail spikes are a deep brown, and the legs and belly are a pale grey. A row of small spikes along the side completes the stegosaur look.
Sculpt and Detail
Head and neck
The head is small and low with a beak-like snout. The neck carries smaller plates that grow taller along the back.
Plates and spikes
Two rows of tall plates run down the back, turning into long spikes over the hips and tail. Thin spines also stick out from the sides.
Figure vs fossil
Action Features and Articulation
✓ Posable legs and head✓ Detailed plates and spikes✓ No batteries needed✗ No sound or attack motion
Like every Danger Pack figure, Craterosaurus keeps things simple: posable legs and no electronics. The plates and spikes are sculpted in firm plastic, so they keep their shape.
Size and Specs
Small, hand-sized figure for ages 4 and up. Look for the Epic Evolution logo and the mustard body with dark plates.
Is It Worth Buying?
Craterosaurus is a good-looking stegosaur and a fun conversation piece because of its one-bone story. Collectors who want scientific accuracy should treat it as a generic stegosaur.
It came out in 2024 in the second Danger Pack wave.
What we like
- Rare English dinosaur
- Tall plates and spikes
- Warm earthy paint
- No batteries
Good to know
- Known from one bone
- Body is guesswork
- No sound or attack motion
About Craterosaurus
Craterosaurus was named in 1874 by Harry Seeley from a single fossil found near Potton in Bedfordshire, England. The name means bowl lizard, because he first mistook the bone for part of a skull.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, roughly 140 million years ago. Because only one vertebra is known, its exact size is unknown, though it was probably a small to medium stegosaur.
Today Craterosaurus is accepted as a stegosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur with plates and spikes along its back, but some scientists consider the fossil too poor to be sure.
How to Unlock Craterosaurus 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Just one partial back vertebra, found in England in the 1800s.
No. Danger Pack figures have no electronics.
Bowl lizard, because the bone was first thought to be part of a skull.
Yes, it is usually classed as a stegosaur, related to Stegosaurus and Kentrosaurus.
In the Early Cretaceous, roughly 140 million years ago.
Open the Jurassic World Play App, tap Scan and point your camera at the copy of the code on this page.