Re: New paper on pachycephalosaur behavior

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jordan Mallon wrote:
> >From: zone65@bigpond.com
> 
> >Perhaps it was to prevent one's head from being chomped on from above, 
> >always a consideration.
> 
> Wouldn't have helped much.  They've found a tyrannosaur coprolite with 
> crushed pachycephalosaur skull dome in the mix.

Interesting. It ate parts of the skull? Not a lot of nutritional
material there, other than the brains, and there certainly wouldn't be
much of that in a dinosaur (particularly one this size).

Early example of roughage? ;)