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pachyrhinosaurin

pachyrhinosaurin noun: any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids.

pachyrhinosaurin: any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids
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Noun

pachyrhinosaurin (plural pachyrhinosaurins)

  1. Any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids.
    • In addition, we modified Characters 59 and 61, which describe the epiparietal (ep) morphology at loci ep 2 and ep 3, to include a state that differentiates between rugose, tongue-shaped horncores and greatly elongate, spike-like horncores that, for example, characterize the ep 3 locus in...2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the...

Forms of pachyrhinosaurin

pluralpachyrhinosaurins

Questions about pachyrhinosaurin

What does pachyrhinosaurin mean?
Pachyrhinosaurin means any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids.
What part of speech is pachyrhinosaurin?
Pachyrhinosaurin is a noun.
What is the plural of pachyrhinosaurin?
The plural of pachyrhinosaurin is pachyrhinosaurins.

Words near pachyrhinosaurin in the dictionary

  1. pachypodol
  2. pachypods
  3. pachyporid
  4. pachyporids
  5. pachyptile
  6. pachyrhinosaurin
  7. pachyrhinosaurins
  8. pachyrhizodontid
  9. pachyrhizodontids
  10. pachyrhizodontoid
  11. pachyrhizodontoids

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