Pachyrhinosaurus' nose

[Stang1996@aol.com]

I've been wondering this for a while.

Does anyone know if the thickening/horn on P.'s nose went just as far as the
rhinal ornimentation of the bone went, or was the rhinal ornimentation just
the base for a really larger conical horn made of carroten or calogen or
something?

I have seen it the two different ways; NGS's January ?93 map supliment and
most other works with the low, ugly version, the PBS documentary "The
Dinosaurs" with the big cone.

I would think that PBS's interperatation is a possibility at least because no
other Ceratopsians had skull ornimentation that was "flat" and "rumply".
 Also, the fact that a solid bone horn-core as large as "the cone" would be
tremendously heavy for something to drag around on it's face, especially
after the already heavy Ceratopsian head.  Moreover, bone horn-cores do not
always reflect the shape of the actual horn.

Peter Buchholz
Stang1996@aol.com

P.S. On Star Trek Voyager last Monday (a lot off the subject),am I the only
one that noticed that Captain Janeway used the word "moreover" in a spoken
sentence?  This has got to be the first time in the history of English that
this has happened "spontaniously"!