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Pachycephalosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
- Length 4.5 m
- Mass 450 kg
Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The type species, P. wyomingensis, is the only known definitive species. It was among the last species of non-avian dinosaurs on Earth before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now western North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Alberta. Mainly known from a single skull and a few extremely thick skull roofs, Pachycephalosaurus is estimated to have reached 4.5 m (15 ft) long and weighed 370-450 kg (820-990 lb). More complete fossils would come to be found in the following years.
Attributes
- Length
- 4.5 m
- Mass
- 450 kg
- Time range
- 83.6 - 66 Ma
- Size class
- Medium
- Region
- United States
Sources
Facts are drawn from the Paleobiology Database and Wikipedia. Images are reconstructions, not photographs.
