Classification
Dinosauria
Clade non classé
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Ornithischia
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Neornithischia
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Pyrodontia
Clade non classé
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Cerapoda
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Marginocephalia
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Pachycephalosauria
Sous-ordre
Sites de découverte 176 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien
(72.2–66 Ma)
65
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
107
Santonien
(85.7–83.6 Ma)
2
Turonien
(93.9–89.8 Ma)
1
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Bibliographie
Description originale
T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102
Bibliographie (74)
T. Chinzorig, R. Takasaki, and J. Yoshida, R. T. Tucker, B. Buyantegsh, B. Mainbayar, K. Tsogtbaatar, L. E. Zanno. 2025. A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 646(8087):1138-1145
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D. C. Woodruff, J. R. Horner, and M. B. Goodwin, D. C. Evans. 2025. The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(2):zlaf087
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S. L. Wick and T. M. Lehman. 2024. A rare ‘flat-headed’ pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from West Texas, USA, with morphometric and heterochronic considerations. Geobios 86(78):89–106
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A. F. Wroblewski. 2024. Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs. Lethaia 57(4):1–10
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J. R. Horner, M. B. Goodwin, and D. C. Evans. 2023. A new pachycephalosaurid from the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(4):e2190369:1-14
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Y. Lee, L. L. Jacobs, and P. J. Currie, R. Barsbold. 2023. Narrative of the Korea-Mongolian International Dinosaur expeditions (KID) 2006–2010 with scientific results. Windows into Sauropsid and Synapsid Evolution: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Jacobs
S. A. Whitebone, G. F. Funston, and P. J. Currie. 2023. An unusual microsite from the Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43(5):e2316668
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D. C. Woodruff, R. K. Schott, and D. C. Evans. 2023. Two new species of small-bodied pachycephalosaurine (Dinosauria, Marginocephalia) from the uppermost Cretaceous of North America suggest hidden diversity in well-sampled formations. Papers in Palaeontology 9(6):e1535
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D. C. Evans, C. M. Brown, and H. You, N. E. Campione. 2021. Description and revised diagnosis of Asia's first recorded pachycephalosaurid, Sinocephale bexelli gen. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 58(10)
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M. A. McLain, P. V. Ullmann, and R. D. Ash, K. Bohnstedt, D. Nelsen, R. O. Clark, L. R. Brand, A. V. Chadwick. 2021. Independent confirmation of fluvial reworking at a Lance Formation (Maastrichtian) bonebed by traditional and chemical taphonomic analyses. PALAIOS 36(6):193-215
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B. Moore. 2021. The Postcranial Anatomy of Pachycephalosaurs (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) and Its Phylogenetic and Myological Implications.
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W. W. Stein. 2021. The paleontology, geology and taphonomy of the Tooth Draw Deposit; Hell Creek Formation (Maastrictian), Butte County, South Dakota. The Journal of Paleontological Sciences JPS.C.21:0001:1-108
K. Snyder, M. McLain, and J. Wood, A. V. Chadwick. 2020. Over 13,000 elements from a single bonebed help elucidate disarticulation and transport of an Edmontosaurus thanatocoenosis. PLoS One 15(5):e0233182:1-31
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D. C. Evans, S. Hayashi, and K. Chiba, M. Watabe, M. J. Ryan, Y.-N. Lee, P. J. Currie, K. Tsogtbaatar, R. Barsbold. 2018. Morphology and histology of new cranial specimens of Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Nemegt Formation, Mongolia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 494:121-134
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T. M. Cullen, F. Fanti, and C. Capobianco, M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans. 2016. A vertebrate microsite from a marine-terrestrial transition in the Foremost Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada, and the use of faunal assemblage data as a paleoenvironmental indicator. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 444:101-114
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J. C. Mallon, D. C. Evans, and T. T. Tokaryk, M. L. Currie. 2015. First pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Frenchman Formation (upper Maastrichtian) of Saskatchewan, Canada. Cretaceous Research 56:426-431
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T. S. Kelly. 2014. Preliminary report on the mammals form Lane's Little Jaw Site Quarry: a latest Cretaceous (earliest Puercan?) local fauna, Hell Creek Formation, southeastern Montana. Paludicola 10(1):50-91
H. E. Rivera-Sylva and K. Carpenter. 2014. The ornithischian dinosaurs of Mexico. Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico
D. C. Evans, T. E. Williamson, and M. A. Loewen, J. I. Kirkland. 2013. Review of pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah
D. C. Evans, R. K. Schott, and D. W. Larson, C. M. Brown, M. J. Ryan. 2013. The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature Communications 4:1828
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S. E. Jasinski and R. M. Sullivan. 2011. Re-evaluation of pachycephalosaurids from the Fruitland-Kirtland transition (Kirtlandian, late Campanian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico, with a description of a new species of Stegoceras and a reassessment of Texacephale langstoni. Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:202-215
M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar, and R. M. Sullivan. 2011. A new pachycephalosaurid from the Baynshire Formation (Cenomanian-late Santonian), Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:489-497
T. M. Lehman. 2010. Pachycephalosauridae from the San Carlos and Aguja Formations (Upper Cretaceous) of West Texas, and observations of the frontoparietal dome. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):786-798
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N. R. Longrich, J. Sankey, and D. Tanke. 2010. Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southern Texas, USA. Cretaceous Research 31:274-284
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F. Fanti and T. Miyashita. 2009. A high latitude vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of west-central Alberta, Canada: evidence for dinosaur nesting and vertebrate latitudinal gradient. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 275(1-4):37-53
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T. E. Williamson, T. D. Carr, and S. A. Williams, K. Tremaine. 2009. Early ontogeny of pachycephalosaurine squamosals as revealed by juvenile specimens from the Hell Creek Formation, eastern Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):291-294
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J. T. Sankey. 2008. Vertebrate paleoecology from microsites, Talley Mountain, Upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography
L. E. Wilson. 2008. Comparative taphonomy and paleoecological reconstruction of two microvertebrate accumulations from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), eastern Montana. Palaios 23:289-297
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R. T. Bakker, R. M. Sullivan, and V. Porter, P. Larson, S. J. Saulsbury. 2006. Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:331-345
M. T. Carrano. 2006. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, Museum of the Rockies
R. M. Sullivan and S. G. Lucas. 2006. The pachycephalosaurid dinosaur Stegoceras validum from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:329-330
R. M. Sullivan. 2006. A taxonomic review of the Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:348-365
M. T. Carrano. 2005. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, University of California Museum of Paleontology
T. T. Tokaryk and H. N. Bryant. 2004. The fauna from the Tyrannosaurus rex excavation, Frenchman Formation (Late Maastrichtian), Saskatchewan. Summary of Investigations 2004, Volume 1. Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Saskatchewan Industry
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R. M. Sullivan. 2003. Revision of the dinosaur Stegoceras Lambe (Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):181-207
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T. E. Williamson and T. D. Carr. 2003. A new genus of derived pachycephalosaurian from western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(4):779-801
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P. A. Holroyd and J. H. Hutchison. 2002. Patterns of geographic variation in latest Cretaceous vertebrates: evidence from the turtle component. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:177-190
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J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54
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M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2001. Dinosaurs of Alberta (exclusive of Aves). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
J. T. Sankey. 2001. Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 75(1):208-215
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R. M. Sullivan. 2000. Prenocephale edmontonensis (Brown and Schlaikjer) new comb. and P. brevis (Lambe) new comb. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:177-190
M. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:17-29
M. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossils collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993 through 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:99-108
J. A. Lillegraven and J. J. Eberle. 1999. Vertebrate faunal changes through Lancian and Puercan time in southern Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):691-710
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P. D. Semonche. 1999. A diverse bonebed near K/T bounary in Wyoming. In: Abstracts of papers: Fifty-ninth annual meeting of Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists; Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3 Suppl.):1-78
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M. B. Goodwin, E. A. Buccholtz, and R. E. Johnson. 1998. Cranial anatomy and diagnosis of Stygimoloch spinifer (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) with comments on cranial display structures in agonistic behavior. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):363-375
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A. R. Fiorillo. 1989. The vertebrate fauna from the Judith River Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Wheatland and Golden Valley counties, Montana. Mosasaur 4:127-142
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M. B. Goodwin. 1989. New occurrences of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs from the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3, suppl.):23A
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