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• In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
• In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
• Any hypothesis testing of head butting in pachycephalosaurids, combat in ceratopsids or similar agonistic encounters must take into account the fact that the skulls of these dinosaurs are composed largely of metaplastic tissue. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• Pachycephalosaur fossils usually consist of only portions of the frontoparietal bone that forms the distinctive dome and many remain incomplete. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• Coronal histological sections of the frontoparietal dome of an adult Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis reveal a dense structure composed of metaplastic bone with a variety of extremely fibrous and acellular tissue. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis reveal a dense structure composed of metaplastic bone with a variety of extremely fibrous and acellular tissue. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• Although an apparent explosion of dinosaur diversity occurred in the mid-Cretaceous, coinciding with the emergence of new groups e.g. neoceratopsians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, hadrosaurids and pachycephalosaurs, results from the first quantitative study of diversification applied to a new supertree of dinosaurs show that this apparent burst in dinosaurian diversity in the last 18 Myr of the Cretaceous is a sampling artefact. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
• I read two articles in the May 2010 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, "Allodaposuchus Nopsca, 1928 (Crocodylia, Eusuchia), from the Late Cretaceous of southern France and its relationships to the Alligatoroidea" and "Pachycephalosauridae from the San Carlos and Aguja Formations (Upper Cretaceous) of West Texas, and observations of the frontoparietal dome. Subject lines are for the faint of heart.
• An alternate view, that ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs diverged from ornithopod dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic, is more consistent with the preserved biostratigraphic evidence.