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Dracorex
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Dracorex is a very late pachycephalosaur. Only the skull has been found. It has lost the domed head characteristic of this group and instead has spikes and frills remeniscent of a mythical dragon.
The species name, hogwartsia is derived from the fictional Hogwarts School of JK Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books.
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- Pronounced
- dray-ko-rex
- Meaning of name
- Dragon king
- Length
- estimated 4m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(66 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Pachycephalosauria, Goyocephala, Homalocephaloidea, Pachycephalosauridae, Dracorex
- Named by
- Bakker, Sullivan, Porter, Larson and Saulsbury (2006)
- Type species
- hogwartsia