The skull of the adult dinosaur weighs about 272 kilograms and is estimated to be 72 million years old
It’s a dinosaur that roamed Alberta ’s badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant.The adult Pachyrhinosaurus is the second plant-eating dinosaur to be unearthed from a dense bonebed belonging to a herd that died together on the edge of a valley that now sits 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton .
“At the time, sort of in the ‘70s and ‘80s, paleontology in northern Alberta was virtually unknown,” said Bamforth. “Their distinguishing feature is that, instead of having a horn on their nose like a triceratops, they had this big, bony bump called a boss. And they have big, bony bumps over their eyes as well,” she said.
The skull was found upside down, “as if the animal was lying on its back,” but was well preserved, she said.
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