Acrotholus
Field photograph to come
Acrotholus
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- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Evans et al. 2013
Field notes
About Acrotholus
Acrotholus was a plant-eating pachycephalosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Pachycephalosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Acrotholus, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Milk River Formation. It was named by Evans et al. in 2013.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Pachycephalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: 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