单词 | pachycephalosaur |
释义 | pachycephalosaurn.adj. Palaeontology. A. n. = pachycephalosaurid n. ΚΠ 1971 Nature 12 Nov. 78/1 The Upper Cretaceous pachycephalosaurs (troödonts or ‘dome-headed dinosaurs’) are characterized by a massively thick and solid roof to the skull. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 276 A rather similar function has been suggested for the greatly thickened skull roofs that give the name ‘dome-heads’ to another group of ornithopods, the pachycephalosaurs. 1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 11163 The fauna of the Cedar Mountain Formation records..the first North American appearance of..tyrannosaurids, pachycephalosaurs, and snakes. B. adj. = pachycephalosaurid adj. ΚΠ 1989 Jrnl. Paleontol. 63 525 A new specimen of Stegoceras edmontonense in the same geographic and stratigraphic provenance as P. wyomingensis establishes that the two pachycephalosaur genera could exist sympatrically. 1990 M. B. Goodwin in K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie Dinosaur Systematics (1992) xiv. 189 Fifteen measurements are defined as a basis for gathering morphometric data from the pachycephalosaur cranium. 1998 Palaios 13 160 Ceratopsid dinosaurs are more abundant in the South Saskatchewan River area, whereas the converse is true for ankylosaur and pachycephalosaur dinosaurs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1971 |
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