pachycephalosaur
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the New Latin genus name Pachycephalosaurus, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + cephalo- (“head”) + -saur (“lizard”).
Noun[edit]
pachycephalosaur (plural pachycephalosaurs)
- Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period. [from 20th c.]
- 2016 September 28, David Hone, “‘Three-eyed’ extinct reptile was a bone-headed dinosaur mimic 100 million years early”, in The Guardian[1]:
- One could almost call Triopticus a mimic were it not for the fact that it dates to 228-220 million years ago, meaning that it predates the pachycephalosaurs by over 100 million years.
References[edit]
- pachycephalosaur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pachycephalosaurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Pachycephalosaurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons