Ceratosaurus

In Real Life
Ceratosaurus was a medium-sized theropod. The original specimen is estimated to be 5.3 m (17 ft) or 5.69 m (18.7 ft) long, while the specimen described as C. dentisulcatus was larger, at around 7 m (23 ft) long. Ceratosaurus was characterized by deep jaws that supported proportionally very long, blade-like teeth, a prominent, ridge-like horn on the midline of the snout, and a pair of horns over the eyes. The forelimbs were very short, but remained fully functional; the hand had four fingers. The tail was deep from top to bottom. A row of small osteoderms (skin bones) was present down the middle of the neck, back, and tail. Additional osteoderms were present at unknown positions on the animal's body. Ceratosaurus gives its name to the Ceratosauria, a clade of theropod dinosaurs that diverged early from the evolutionary lineage leading to modern birds. Within the Ceratosauria, some paleontologists proposed it to be most closely related to Genyodectes from Argentina, which shares the strongly elongated teeth. The geologically older genus Proceratosaurus from England, although originally described as a presumed antecedent of Ceratosaurus, was later found to be unrelated. Ceratosaurus shared its habitat with other large theropod genera including Torvosaurus and Allosaurus, and it has been suggested that these theropods occupied different ecological niches to reduce competition. Ceratosaurus may have preyed upon plant-eating dinosaurs, although some paleontologists suggested that it hunted aquatic prey such as fish. The nasal horn was probably not used as a weapon as was originally suggested by Marsh, but more likely was used solely for display.

In Prehistory
Ceratosaurus is the strongest Tier 3 in the game, as it is able to 5 shot a Utahraptor and 4-5 shot a Pachycephalosaurus. It has very good damage for its size, and very decent bleed. It also has excellent defense for a Tier 3, making it a very tanky theropod. Its main predator however, are tier 4 dinosaurs. Sub Rex and Allosaurus can both very easily chase Ceras down and kill them, making it way more unviable than Utahraptor, as a Tier 3. Cera was introduced as the dinosaur that leads to Baryonyx in the fisher tree, making the aquatic tree quite difficult due to Cera's setbacks in mobility. Cerato is very slow, but it still has decent stamina. It is recommended Cera players play as ambush predators, due to their excellent damage but low speed. It is also recommended that Ceras hunt Pachycephalosaurus due to them being a relatively easy meal. One thing that most players don't know is, just like Noasaurus, it is semi-aquatic. It has great swim speed and can use this to escape tier 4 and 5 dinosaurs. Only exceptions being Baryonyx and Spinosaurus.

Pros

 * Good damage
 * Good health
 * Good defense
 * Good Stamina
 * Good bleed output
 * Semi-aquatic to an extent

Cons

 * Slow (easily gets caught up by Tier 4s)
 * Bad sense of smell
 * Vulnerable to Tier 4 predators such as Allo