Synopses & Reviews
Pachyrhinosaurus, one of the rarest, least understood horned dinosaurs, lived during the second half of the Cretaceous Period, the last period in the 150-million-year Age of Dinosaurs. Pachyrhinosaurus was different in a striking way. Instead of the sweeping lances found on fossil Triceratops and Centrosaurus faces, gnarly platforms of bone covered Pachyrhinosaurus's nose and eyebrows. These bony fossil shields gave the dinosaur its name: Pachyrhinosaurus means thick-nose reptile.Pachyrhinosaurus, the third book in the Royal Tyrrell Museum's Discoveries in Palaeontology series, follows two separate stories.The first is of the discovery of Pachyrhinosaurus fossils at Pipestone Creek in northwestern Alberta. The second is the story of a single Pachyrhinosaurus herd and the events that led to its abrupt demise 76 million years ago. Each story is compellingly told and accompanied by colour illustrations throughout. The Discoveries in Palaeontology series includes Albertosaurus, which explores the life of a distant cousin of the ferocious predator Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Ornithomimus, which is about a small, toothless theropod that resembled an ostrich and is believed to have given rise to birds.
Synopsis
Pachyrhinosaurus follows two separate stories: the discovery of Pachyrhinosaurus fossils in northwestern Alberta and the sequence of events leading to this dinosaur's abrupt demise 76 million years ago.
Pachyrhinosaurus, one of the rarest, least understood horned dinosaurs, lived during the late Cretaceous Period at the end of the 150-million-year Age of Dinosaurs. Pachyrhinosaurus was different in a striking way from other dinosaurs. Instead of the sweeping lances found on the faces of Triceratops and Centrosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus had gnarly platforms of bone covering its nose and eyebrows. These bony fossil shields gave the dinosaur its name, which means -thicknose reptile.-