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Dinosaur: Dracorex hogwartsia
| Length*: | 3.3 m | 10.8 ft |
| Weight*: | 165 kg | 364 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Late Maastrichtian
Years: 72.1–66 Ma
Details
Status: S > Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
Author: Bakker et al.
Year: 2006
Distribution
Area: North America
Country: USA
Region: South Dakota
Formation: Hell Creek
Sources
Material: Nearly complete skull and four cervical vertebrae.
References: Bakker, R. T., Sullivan, R. M., Porter, V., Larson, P. and Saulsbury, S.J. (2006). "Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota.
