HardPachyrhinosaurus
Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis
pak-ee-RYE-noh-SORE-us· “thick-nosed lizard”
🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Ceratopsidae
7 m
Length
2.5 m
Height
4 t
Weight
A rugged horned dinosaur that swapped the usual nose horn for a massive slab of bone, and roamed the far north in huge herds — even inside the Arctic Circle.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~72–71 million years ago
Found in
Canada
Discovered
Charles Sternberg, 1950
Did you know?
- Instead of a nose horn it had a thick slab of bone called a boss.
- Huge herds lived in the cold, dark Arctic.
- It starred in the film 'Walking with Dinosaurs'.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.