Dracorex
Dracorex is a genus of pachycephalosaur dinosaur. It lived 87.5–65 million years ago in the Hell Creek Formation in the United States. Its name Dracorex hogswartsia means 'dragon king of Hogwarts'.[1]
| Dracorex Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous | |
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| Skeleton of Dracorex at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. | |
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| Genus: | Dracorex Bakker, 2006 |
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D. hogwartsia (Bakker, 2006) (type) | |
This specimen and that of Stygimoloch may be juvenile Pachycephalosaurus. The skull and four cervical vertebrae are all that was found.[2]
References
- Harry Potter Hogwarts like dinosaur found in U.S.A.
- Bakker, R. T., Sullivan, R. M., Porter, V., Larson, P. and Saulsbury, S.J. (2006). "Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota." in Lucas, S. G. and Sullivan, R. M., eds., Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35, pp. 331–345. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
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