pachycephalosaur

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Mammoth Skull: 3000 Bells Mammoth Torso: 2500 Bells Pachycephalosaur Length: 13.1 feet Late Cretaceous 'I must tell you a smidgen about the pachycephalosaur.

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  1. noun Any of various medium-sized herbivorous dinosaurs of the genus Pachycephalosaurus of the late Cretaceous period of North America, having a beaked mouth, rows of bumps on the head, and a domed skull up to ten inches (25.4 cm) thick.

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  • Mammoth Skull: 3000 Bells Mammoth Torso: 2500 Bells Pachycephalosaur Length: 13.1 feet Late Cretaceous 'I must tell you a smidgen about the pachycephalosaur. —  IGN Complete
  • With the help of CT scans and microscopic analysis of slices through the bones of Pachycephalosaurus and Stygimoloch, the team concluded that Stygimoloch, with its high, narrow dome, growing tissue and unfused skull bones, was probably a pachycephalosaur subadult, in a stage just before sexual maturity. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
 

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  1. New Latin Pachycephalosaurus, genus name : Greek pakhus, thick + Greek kephalē, head; see ghebh-el- in Indo-European roots + Greek sauros, lizard.
 

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