Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Full reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis, representing a new family of the Ceratopsia, from southern Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 118:109-120
Belongs to Pachyrhinosaurus according to A. R. Fiorillo and R. S. Tykoski 2012
See also Brown and Druckenmiller 2011, Campione and Holmes 2006, Charig 1967, Currie 2000, Currie et al. 2008, Dodson 1990, Dodson and Currie 1990, Dodson et al. 2004, Eberth 1997, Eberth et al. 2001, Evans et al. 2015, Farke et al. 2011, Hieronymus et al. 2009, Huene 1950, Kuhn 1964, Langston 1967, Langston 1968, Langston 1975, Langston 1976, Lehman 1996, Lund et al. 2016, McDonald 2011, McDonald and Horner 2010, Russell 1964, Russell 1966, Russell 1984, Ryan and Russell 2005, Ryan et al. 2010, Sakagami and Kawabe 2020, Sternberg 1950, Sullivan and Lucas 2003, Sullivan and Lucas 2004, Tatarinov 1964 and Tykoski and Fiorillo 2013
Sister taxa: Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum
Type specimen: NMC 8867, a skull. Its type locality is Pachyrhinosaurus type, Little Bow River, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial claystone in the St. Mary River Formation of Canada.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (6: Alberta collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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