Gravitholus albertae Wall and Galton 1979 (ornithischian)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Pachycephalosauridae

Full reference: W. P. Wall and P. M. Galton. 1979. Notes on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from North America, with comments on their status as ornithopods. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 16:1176-1186

Belongs to Gravitholus according to N. R. Longrich et al. 2010

See also Currie 1980, Currie 2005, Lehman 2010, Maryanska 1990, Maryanska et al. 2004, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Sues and Galton 1987, Sullivan 2003, Sullivan 2006, Wall and Galton 1979 and Williamson and Carr 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: RTMP 72.27.1, a skull. Its type locality is Jenner Ferry, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Oldman Formation of Canada.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Jenner Ferry

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