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Cranial Pathologies in a Specimen of Pachycephalosaurus

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Title
Cranial Pathologies in a Specimen of Pachycephalosaurus
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PLOS ONE, April 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0036227
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Authors

Joseph E. Peterson, Christopher P. Vittore

Abstract

A frontoparietal dome of a large pachycephalosaurid collected from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation in 2001 is identified as Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis. The specimen features two large oval depressions on the dorsal surface, accompanied by numerous circular pits on the margin and inner surface of the larger depressions.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Argentina 1 2%
Unknown 44 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 24%
Researcher 7 15%
Student > Master 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Other 3 7%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 12 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 24 52%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 13%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 13 28%