| They say fences make good neighbors. I say without them, dinosaurs like this one, the Pachyrhinosaurus, shouldn't be in the park. This animal is built like a tank, and it has the personality to match. |
Pachyrhinosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur in Jurassic World Evolution 2. Originating from Late Cretaceous North America, the most defining feature of Pachyrhinosaurus is the large bony mass, or "nasal boss", on its face.
History
Pachyrhinosaurus was one of the species intended to be exhibited in the original Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. However, it had not been cloned at the time of the 1993 incident. A 1996 asset catalogue of the dinosaurs present on Nublar and InGen's Site B facility on Isla Sorna, reported that 8% of the Pachyrhinosaurus genome had been completed.[1]
At an indeterminate point, several adult Pachyrhinosaurus appeared in the wild after the events at the Lockwood Manor in 2018.[2]
Characteristics
Measuring around 6 meters in length and weighing as much as 3 tons, Pachyrhinosaurus is a herbivorous dinosaur from the ceratopsid family, with strong teeth in its cheeks for breaking down tough vegetation. Its name translates to "Thick-Nosed Lizard", referring the unusual blunt shape of its snout ā while this genus is identifiable by the array of adornments on its skull, including a frill and horns. Rather than nasal or brow horns typically seen in other ceratopsians, Pachyrhinosaurus bares a massive, thick, flattened bone on their heads, commonly referred to as a "nasal boss", with a large one over the nose and another smaller one over the eyes.
Behaviour
Available genomes
Skins
Paleontology
The first Pachyrhinosaurus remains were recovered from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta in the mid-1940s, and were described by American fossil expert Charles Mortram Sternberg in 1950. The initial find consisted of two partial skulls, while further investigation of the site unearthed additional fossils in subsequent years. Between 1950 and 2012, there have been three species identified in the genus of Pachyrhinosaurus, which are as follows: P. lakustai from the Wapiti Formation, P. canadensis from the St. Mary River Formation, and P. perotorum from the Prince Creek Formation. The exact size of Pachyrhinosaurus is various between each species, growing between 5.9 and 8 m (19 and 26 ft) in length and between 2 and 4 t (4,409 and 8,818 lb) in weight. Additionally, Pachyrhinosaurus is said to have been relatively fast for a ceratopsian, with some paleontologists speculating that it could run at speeds of 20 to 25 mph (32 to 40 km/h).
Paleoecology
Pachyrhinosaurus lived around 75-66 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, and is native to Canada. It co-existed alongside many other species of dinosaurs such as fellow ceratopsians Anchiceratops and Arrhinoceratops, the ankylosaur Edmontonia, hadrosaurs Edmontosaurus and Saurolophus, as well as theropods such as Atrociraptor, Struthiomimus, Troodon, and the apex predator Albertosaurus. The discovery of communal bone beds suggests that it lived in large herds and migrated great distances.[3] It foraged in woodlands for food, with its diet consisting mainly of leaves, shrubs and plants.
Gallery
Trivia
- Despite being based on the species Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, with the three-pronged horn in the middle of the frill, the player unlocks this dinosaur by sending dig teams to the Horseshoe Canyon formation, where Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis, a different species of Pachyrhinosaurus, is from. P. lakustai was actually found in the nearby Wapiti formation.
References
- ā What Killed the Gene Guard Act?. (February 23, 2018). Dinosaur Protection Group. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ā Kreamer, S., Hammersley, A., Spielberg, S., Trevorrow, C., Marshall, F. (Executive Producers). (2024ā2024). Jurassic World Chaos Theory [TV series]. Universal Pictures; DreamWorks Animation Television.
- ā Pachyrhinosaurus. Prehistoric Wildlife. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
External link
- Pachyrhinosaurus on Wikipedia
