Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
Description
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis is shown from a vetted PBDB fossil occurrence in Hell Creek, United States. The occurrence is dated to the Maastrichtian interval (72.2-66 Ma), with locality evidence recorded as Bug Creek 7 1/2 minute Quadrangle, NE 1/4 of section 5, Township 22N, Range 43E, approx. one mile east of Fort Peck Reservoir and 1.5 miles northwest of the Bug Creek Anthills locality. The lat long is for the Fort Peck Reservoir..
Habitat
Fossil Distribution
Pachycephalosaurus was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited North America. Its fossils have been found in places such as South Dakota, Colorado and Montana.
Taxonomy
Fun Facts
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis is mapped from PBDB occurrence occ:147092 in Hell Creek, United States; interval Maastrichtian (72.2-66.0 Ma).
PBDB interval: Maastrichtian (72.2-66 Ma).
Fossil occurrence locality: Bug Creek 7 1/2 minute Quadrangle, NE 1/4 of section 5, Township 22N, Range 43E, approx. one mile east of Fort Peck Reservoir and 1.5 miles northwest of the Bug Creek Anthills locality. The lat long is for the Fort Peck Reservoir..
Formation/group: Hell Creek.
PBDB ecology: diet herbivore, habit ground dwelling, gregarious.