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**Cranidos** (Japanese: **ズガイドス** *Zugaidos*) is a Rock-type Fossil Pokémon introduced in Generation IV.

It is resurrected from a Skull Fossil and evolves into Rampardos starting at level 30.

## Biology

Cranidos is a gray, dinosaur-like Pokémon resembling the Template:Wp. It has a hooked beak, red irises, and a hard, blue, dome-shaped head with four spikes on its back. It has stubby arms with three claws; despite the stubbiness, it can attack with them. The back half of its body has a large, spiky pattern of blue and it has a short tail. It has feet with three forward claws and one backward.

Its main attacking prowess involves charging head-first into its opponents. When it lived in dense forests and jungles 100 million years ago, it would use headbutts to snap obstructing trees, down its prey, and combat other Pokémon like Aerodactyl. It notably lacks any intelligence.

### Major appearances

#### Roark's Cranidos

Cranidos debuted in *Shapes of Things to Come* and *A Gruff Act to Follow!*, under the ownership of Roark. In *Wild in the Streets!*, it evolved into a Rampardos after being trapped in Template:MTR's net during an attack by Template:TRT.

#### Other

In *Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs (Part 2)*, a Cranidos was under the control of the Pokémon Pinchers. It fought Template:Ra, who later captured it and released it back into the wild.

### Minor appearances

In *Tag! We're It...!*, James's fantasy featured a Cranidos.

### Pokédex entries

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## In the manga

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### In the Phantom Thief Pokémon 7 manga

A Cranidos appeared in *Behold The Phantom Thief Of Justice*.

### In the Pocket Monsters DP manga

Main article: Roark's Cranidos
A Cranidos appeared under the ownership of Roark in PMDP07.

A Template:Pkmn2 Cranidos appeared in PMDP06.

### In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Main article: Roark's Cranidos
A Cranidos is owned by Roark, which he sends out against Template:Adv in her Gym match. He seems to be one of the first Pokémon that he owned, having been hatched from an Egg long ago. He later evolved to Rampardos around the three Sinnoh Trainers' arrival on Canalave City. He first appeared in *Putting a Crimp in Kricketot*.

### In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga

Main article: Roark's Cranidos
Cranidos assisted its Trainer in rescuing Hareta, who had been captured by Template:Tc in *Hareta's Very First Pokémon Battle!!*. Later, Cranidos was used in a one-on-one Gym battle with Hareta's Piplup that ended in Hareta's favor with the help of an Oran Berry Roark gave to him earlier.

## Game data

### Game locations

#### In events

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## Template:Spritebox/NATemplate:Spritebox/4Template:Spritebox/5Template:Spritebox/6Template:Spritebox/7Template:Spritebox/FooterTrivia

* Cranidos and its evolved form are the only Fossil Pokémon of a single type.
* Cranidos is tied with Rockruff for the lowest base Template:Stat stat of all Rock-type Pokémon.
* Cranidos and Shieldon evolve at level 30, the earliest of any Fossil Pokémon.
* Cranidos has the highest Template:Stat stat of all unevolved Pokémon.

### Origin

Cranidos seems to be based on the *Template:Wp*.

#### Name origin

Cranidos is derived from *cranium*. The "nidos" part of its name may be a corruption of "dinos", which is short for "dinosaurs".

Zugaidos is derived from 頭蓋骨 *zugaikotsu* (cranium).

## Related articles

* Roark's Cranidos
* Fossil Pokémon

## External links

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