Cryolophosaurus ellioti was known for its unique crest, as well as for being the first named species of dinosaur from Antarctica. It has been classified in numerous theropod groups since its discovery. For now it is classified as a tetanuran, the likelihood of its relation to Dilophosaurus far diminished from previous ideas.
General Statistics[]
- Name: Cryolophosaurus ellioti
- Name Meaning: Frozen Crested Lizard
- Diet: Carnivore
- Length: 7 meters (23 feet)
- Time Period: Early Jurassic (186-182 MYA)
- Classification: Neotheropoda --> Tetanurae
- Place Found: Antarctica
- Describer: Hammer and Hickerson, 1994
Dinosaur King Statistics[]
Arcade Stats[]
Cryolophosaurus first appeared in a pair of Normal Moves, then a third, and finally a new model appeared as a Secret Dinosaur.
Move Card[]
- Attribute: Normal
- Arcade Nickname:
- Japanese: 自慢のリーゼン卜
- English: The Proud Pompadour
- Assist Moves:
- Counterattack Recovery (Recovery in English) (Paper): Cryolophosaurus heals you a lot after getting hit by your foe's Critical Move!
- Haste (Paper): Cryolophosaurus severely cuts your foe's move timer!
- Recovery (Light Recovery in English) (Scissors): Cryolophosaurus heals you a little after getting hit by your foe!
- Other: To distinguish, Counterattack Recovery card art generally shows a surge of energy at the healed dinosaur's feet, while Light Recovery shows a dome of energy descending from above.
Dinosaur Card[]
- Attribute: Secret
- Sign: Rock
- Strength: 2000
- Technique: 200
- Attack:
- Rock (Critical): 650
- Scissors/Paper: 625
- Types:
- Strength Type (Japanese Gekizan series)
- Tie Recovery Type (Japanese Kakushin series)
- Arcade Nickname: 氷冠の貴公子 (Prince of the Ice Cap)
- Secret Moves:
- Snow Crystal (Rock): Shoot snowflake darts at the foe!
- Blizzard Smash (Scissors): Freeze the foe with a blast of ice!
- Frozen Glide (Paper): Freeze the ground and send the foe crashing into a glacier!
- Super Moves Occurrence Condition: After playing the same move twice
- Availability: As a Dinosaur Card, Cryolophosaurus was only available in the Japanese version.
- Gekizan 2nd Edition+ (New; SP12-竜; Strength Type)
- Kakushin 3rd Edition (SP21-竜; Tie Recovery Type)
Anime Stats[]
- Attribute: Secret
- Owner: Seth (defected), D-Team/Alpha Gang (probably)
- Debut: The Search for the Last Cosmos Stone
- Dinosaurs Defeated: None
- Defeated by: Chomp
- Other: It was the last new Secret Dinosaur to debut in the anime, and also the last new dinosaur to debut overall. Extremely fast and agile, it was able to dodge the locking-in lightning bolt of Ultimate Thunder and appeared to once even run in midair briefly to repeatedly hit an opponent (though it may have been leaping from the ground each time, its hits appear to have been too rapid for this considering its height off the ground).
Move Cards[]
- Blizzard Smash
- Freeze your opponents in a glacier with an icy blast!
- Snow Crystal
- Numerous snowflakes appear, which bend into arrowhead before shooting forward, pelting the opponent!
DS Stats[]
- Elemental Attribute: None (Normal), Wind
- Appears In:
- Rejuvenation (Normal, Rock): Cryolophosaurus heals you by 10%!
- Light Recovery (Normal, Scissors): Cryolophosaurus heals you by 20%!
- Intense Recovery (Normal, Paper): Cryolophosaurus heals you by 30%!
- Tie Recovery (Normal, Scissors): Cryolophosaurus heals you by 30% if you tie in the next 2 turns!
- Special Recovery (Normal, Paper): Cryolophosaurus heals you by 10% if you lose, 20% if you tie, and 30% if you win!
- Mysterious Air (Wind, Scissors): A random effect is triggered! This includes Cryolophosaurus healing you by 10%, 20%, or 30%.
- Other: Though its Secret Dinosaur form had yet to debut as of the game's release, its Helper Dinosaur form appears in several Recovery-based Moves recycling the basic animation but differing by HP recovery and MP cost to use them.
TCG Stats[]
Cryolophosaurus[]
- Element: Secret
- Icon: Paper
- Power: 2000
- Level: 6
- Life: 3
- Card Code: SAS-043/100, SAS-096/100
- Card Rarity: Gold Rare, Colossal Rare
- Image From: Ep. 77 anime scene
- Abilities:
- [Winter's Chill] Neither player can gain Life Points.
- (This Dinosaur can use Super Moves of any Element. It must still meet all other requirements on the card.)
In Move Cards[]
- Element: Normal
- Appears In: Battle Recharge (DKCG), Team Trample (DKTA), Glow of Life (SAS), Mega Backup (JCL only)
- Image From (Battle Recharge): Counterattack Recovery 07 1st(+)/S2 1st/New 1st arcade card
- Image From (Team Trample): Counterattack Recovery 06 4th/S1 2nd/Tai 2nd arcade card
- Image From (Glow of Life): Counterattack Recovery Kaku 1st arcade card
- Image From (Mega Backup, JCL): Light Recovery 07 1st(+)/S2 2nd/New 2nd arcade card
Anime[]
Mesozoic Meltdown[]
Seth first summoned him in The Search for the Last Cosmos Stone when he betrayed the Space Pirates and stole their six Cosmos Stones. Cryolophosaurus fought against Gigas and managed to knock him down despite not having armor. Even when Armatus and Maximus joined the battle, he was fast and strong enough to both keep out of reach and pummel them directly. When they used their Spectral Moves against him, he used Blizzard Smash to trap them in a mass of ice, getting called back as Seth boarded the Backlander.
Seth summoned Cryolophosaurus again when confronted by Max during a cliffhanger, in the next episode fighting Chomp in his DinoTector form. He managed to dodge Ultimate Thunder's locking lightning bolt, darting ahead and knocking Chomp away mid-attack. He then used Snow Crystal, but Chomp was recalled before it hit. Running out into the halls, he fought against Ace and Paris in their DinoTector forms, Chomp rejoining shortly after. Cryolophosaurus used Blizzard Smash against Ace and Paris, knocking them aside. Chomp then used the newly-created Move Card Final Thunder to finally defeat Cryolophosaurus. However, Seth reclaimed his card, along with the Black Cosmos Stone, and escaped from the Backlander in an escape pod.
Cryolophosaurus reappeared later in the same episode to threaten Reese, Dr. Owen, and Patrick at the D-Lab. When Chomp, Ace, Paris, Terry, Spiny, and Tank were summoned in their DinoTector forms, he used Snow Crystal to knock them away. The dinosaur is never seen again after this scene, so what happened to him after it is unclear, probably being recalled by Seth, and his card was probably retrieved by the D-Team later after Seth got injured.
Trivia[]
- Dr. Taylor's arcade comments:
- Japanese: 南きょくでみつかった肉食恐竜だ。頭にかわった形のとさかを持っている。
- English: A carnivorous dinosaur found in Antarctica. Has an interesting looking crest.
- DS Game Encyclopedia entry: A carnivore discovered in Antarctica. It has a distinctive crest on its head[sic, no period]
- Cryolophosaurus was the last dinosaur to debut in the anime.
- Cryolophosaurus was the only Secret Dinosaur in the anime not to be seen in a chibi form. That could be because Seth used one of the copied Stones to summon him, which made it impossible to turn him into his chibi form.
- It was the only new dinosaur in Mesozoic Meltdown to not use dinosaur armor (or have no apparent ability to), and (along with the returning Megalosaurus, who could have but lost its chance) was one of only two in the entire season not to (among those summoned for battle, at least).
- There are 3 different colorations of Cryolophosaurus. The blue and white version that is a Secret Dinosaur, the lighter blue version that appears in the three Normal Moves, and a purple version that also is in its Move Cards, but only appears for Player 2 (right side) or when facing the Alpha Gang in story mode in the arcade game.
- Despite the Secret Cryolophosaurus' coloration being blue and white, Cryolophosaurus had already appeared as a Normal Element dinosaur with different colors, possibly suggesting that the Move Card version may be the "real" color for Cryolophosaurus, meaning that Seth's Cryolophosaurus might be altered. This can be supported in the arcade game by the distinct coloration of Eoraptor as a Secret Dinosaur and an alternately colored one seen on a Polacanthus arcade card, but may be meaningless for the anime.
- There is minor naming confusion about some of the dinosaur's Normal Moves. There are actually 2 different Moves where Cryolophosaurus heals your dinosaur, and both have "Recovery" in the name: Counterattack Recovery (in Japanese; simply "Recovery" in the English arcade), which is a Paper Move; and Light Recovery (in English; originally just "Recovery" in the Japanese arcade, so yes, very confusing), which is a Scissors Move. Both work after you take a hit from your opponent, but Counterattack Recovery only works if you got hit by your opponent's critical move, which they are strongest at, so it heals you by about twice as much, while Light Recovery works in all cases but heals less.
- It can be assumed that Cryolophosaurus was originally a Wind Dinosaur before it was turned into a Secret Dinosaur, being a medium-sized theropod.
- The DS Game's Dinosaur Encyclopedia chooses to list Cryolophosaurus as part of the Carnosauria branch of theropods, which is more derived than its position in scientific conclusions as an early tetanuran, though the Encyclopedia did not have categories for every branch of classification.
- In the TCG, Cryolophosaurus appears on the Jurassic Clash variant of Mega Backup, despite the Move's first version featuring Seismosaurus instead (and being one of the few TCG Moves with multiple releases with different art).
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p · e · t | Main Dinosaurs | |
D-Team: | Chomp (Max) · Ace (Rex) · Paris (Zoe) | |
Alpha Gang: | Terry · Spiny · Tank | |
Spectral Space Pirates: | Brontikens (Spectre) · Gigas (Gabbro) · Armatus (Foolscap) · Maximus (Shear) · Eocarcharia (Goma) | |
Seth: | Saurophaganax · Black Tyrannosaurus · Cryolophosaurus |
p · e · t | Secret Dinosaurs | |
Normal: | Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus · Cryolophosaurus · Deinonychus · Eoraptor · Megalosaurus · Pachycephalosaurus · Pawpawsaurus · Therizinosaurus | |
Main: | Brontikens · Cryolophosaurus | |
Altered/Armored: | Brontosaurus/Armor · Deinonychus/Armor · Therizinosaurus/Super |
p · e · t | Move Card Dinosaurs | |
Normal: | Anhanguera · Archaeopteryx · Cryolophosaurus · Dromiceiomimus · Gallimimus · Leaellynasaura · Microraptor · Pawpawsaurus · Piatnitzkysaurus · Quetzalcoatlus · Segnosaurus · Stegoceras · Struthiomimus · Tapejara · Troodon · Tupuxuara · Velociraptor | |
Grass: | Minmi · Muraenosaurus · Oviraptor · Pteranodon · Seismosaurus · Supersaurus · Tupuxuara | |
Water: | Futabasaurus · Ophthalmosaurus |