PACHYRHINOSAURUS CANADENSIS - INFO
TIME
Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
LOCATION (For Drumheller specimen)
Near Drumheller, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lower “Edmonton formation” (Horshoe Canyon fm.?)
Measurements for this taxa (cm)
Skull (as reconstructed)
Maximum skull length: ~198 cm
Maximum skull height (JUG -> LAC): 80 cm
Body
Maximum length (along centra): 702 cm (7.02 m)
Maximum length (along the curves of silhouette, excl. frill) 806 cm (8.06 m)
ABOUT PACHYRHINOSAURUS:
Pachyrhinosaurus was a thick skulled relative of ceratopsians such as Centrosaurus and Styracosaurus.
Although this taxon partly gained fame in the 2013 Walking with Dinosaurs movie, the film inaccurately portrays Pachyrhinosaurus as having lived alongside the Tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus. Instead, the ceratopsian lived alongside the closely related Albertosaurus.
