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Re: Pachycephalosaurus



On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7oise_Forel?= wrote:
> [...]
> No much is known on this dinosaur? It is the biggest pachycephalosaur, or
> bone-headed dinosaurs. Like most of these animals, it known only from its
> skull. It had a very thick skull bone. Its bony head was probably used like
> a weapon for defense. It was herbivorous, quite slow, territorial and

Herbivorous I could understand based on the teeth, but how was slow
determined without postcranial remains? And territoriality? An 
assumption based on herbivorousness?

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