[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]
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?
+----------+ Rich Travsky RTRAVSKY @ UWYO . EDU
| | Division of Information Technology
| | University of Wyoming (307) 766 - 3663 / 3668
| UW | "Wyoming is the capital of Denver." - a tourist
| * | "One of those square states." - another tourist
+----------+ http://w3.uwyo.edu/~rtravsky/