Pachycephalosaurus — Skull
A domed vault built for the collision.
This cast renders the celebrated domed skull in full, the bone vault rising into a high rounded crest ringed by a coronet of low knobs and short spikes along the rear margin. At roughly two feet in length it holds an arresting profile in close quarters, the thickened cranium reading less like a head than a piece of engineered architecture set on a plinth.
Each cast is hand-finished to bring out the granular texture of the bone surface and the fine sutures tracing the dome, lending the dense, weighty character of the original specimen.
The bony dome of Pachycephalosaurus could approach some twenty to twenty-five centimetres in thickness, among the thickest cranial bone of any known dinosaur.
Pachycephalosaurus lived in the closing stage of the Late Cretaceous, roughly seventy to sixty-six million years ago, in what is now the western United States.
The genus is known largely from skulls and isolated domes, and the thickened crown is widely interpreted as evidence of intraspecific head- or flank-butting.
Pachycephalosaurus — Skull
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