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Stygimoloch
Temporal range: Late Maastrichtian, 66Ma
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Berlin Naturkundemuseum Dino Schaedel.jpg
Reconstructed skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Genus:
Stygimoloch
Species:
spinifer
Synonyms

Stygimoloch was a plant-eating dinosaur that had bony spikes and knobs on its skull. This bipedal dinosaur lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million to 65 million years ago.

Stygimoloch are ornithischian dinosaurs that had thick, domed, spiked skulls. Pachycephalosaurs probably engaged in head-butting both as a defense and in intra-species rivalry.

Images for kids

  • Pachycephalosaur Skull (AMNH 1696)

    Skull AMNH 1696

  • Pachycephalosaurus skull

    The holotype adult skull of P. "reinheimeri" (DMNS 469)

  • Pachycephalosaurus scale

    Size comparison of an adult P. wyomingensis (green), potential growth stages, and a human

  • Pachycephalosaurus Reconstruction

    Restoration

  • Pacycephalasaurus ontogeny skulls - Museum of the Rockies - 2013-07-08

    Casts of three skulls, representing possible growth stages, Museum of the Rockies

  • Pachycephalosaurus ontogeny

    Growth series showing reduction of spikes and growth of dome with age, according to Horner and Goodwin

  • Pachycephalosaurus cranial lesion

    Depressions on the skull of specimen BMRP 2001.4.1

  • Pachycephalosaurus

    Restoration of a specimen with a cranial lesion

  • Hell Creek dinosaurs and pterosaurs by durbed

    Pachycephalosaurus and other animals of the Hell Creek Formation

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