- the
clade Marginocephalia. With the
exception of two species, most
pachycephalosaurs lived during the Late
Cretaceous Period,
dating between about 85.8...
- with five-fingered hands.
Pachycephalosaurus is the largest-known
pachycephalosaur,
known for
having an
extremely thick,
slightly domed skull roof; visually...
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timeline of
pachycephalosaur research is a
chronological listing of
events in the
history of
paleontology focused on the
pachycephalosaurs, a
group of...
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akros meaning highest and
tholos meaning dome) is an
extinct genus of
pachycephalosaur dinosaur that
lived during the
Santonian of the late Cretaceous, in...
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known only from
skull domes,
Stegoceras was one of the
first known pachycephalosaurs, and the
incompleteness of
these initial remains led to many theories...
- roof of its skull,
which was
originally mistaken for the dome of a
pachycephalosaur. It also had more
teeth in both
upper and
lower jaws than most abelisaurids...
- Sereno, P. C. (2000). "The
fossil record,
systematics and
evolution of
pachycephalosaurs and
ceratopsians from Asia". The Age of
Dinosaurs in
Russia and Mongolia...
- All
members of
Marginocephalia were
primarily herbivores (though
pachycephalosaurs are
speculated to have been omnivorous). They
basally used gastroliths...
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presence of bony
protuberances from the
skull prove that it was a
pachycephalosaur.
Later phylogenetic analyses suggest it was a
close relative of Pachycephalosaurus...
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study by Nick
Longrich and
colleagues suggested that flat-headed
pachycephalosaurs were just
juvenile forms of dome-headed adults, a view also supported...
