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New Pachyrhinosaurus species

Adam Khor · 2011-08-27 18:02:23

It's called Pachyrhinosaurus pretorum, it seemingly has a unique cranial ornamentation (although there's no pic in the pdf sadly) and it's the youngest centrosaurine known to date (70-69 million years old). It was found in Alaska. http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20110033_acc.pdf Here's a pic of the "classic"…

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It's called Pachyrhinosaurus pretorum, it seemingly has a unique cranial ornamentation (although there's no pic in the pdf sadly) and it's the youngest centrosaurine known to date (70-69 million years old).
It was found in Alaska.

http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20110033_acc.pdf

Here's a pic of the "classic" Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis:

And the second species, P. lakustai:

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