Platytholus
Platytholus was a small, dome-headed dinosaur that lived near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It walked on two legs and munched on plants with its beak-like mouth. Its skull had a flat, wide dome on top, which it may have used for head-butting contests.14
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e phahame hakae?
E ne e le boima hakae?
telele jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 4 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatleng๐telele jwaloka dibanana tse 11 di behilwe ka mola
boima jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 10๐boima jwaloka mahapu a 8๐งธboima jwaloka bana ba kereshe ba 2๐boima jwaloka bana ba sekolo ba 1๐e ne e ka matha dimitara tse 100 ka metsotswana e 9.2 (motho ya lebelo ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)Platytholus e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ho browser ya hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Platytholus lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.2
Its name means 'flattened dome' because its skull was wide and flat on top, unlike the tall domes of some other pachycephalosaurs.1
The only known fossil of Platytholus is a partial skull, discovered in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.1
Platytholus was a pachycephalosaur, a group of dinosaurs known for their thick, bony skulls.1
Scientists think Platytholus may have used its flat dome for head-butting, like some other dome-headed dinosaurs.1
The species name clemensi honors paleontologist William A. Clemens Jr.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Platytholus
?How big was Platytholus?
It was a medium sized pachycephalosaur, with a skull dome about 21 centimetres long and 7.8 centimetres thick. It was smaller than Pachycephalosaurus but larger than Sphaerotholus.1
?Did Platytholus have feathers?
No direct evidence of feathers has been found for Platytholus. However, its skull had blood vessels that suggest a covering of keratin, like a bristly brush cut, not feathers.3
?What did Platytholus eat?
Platytholus was a plant eater. It had a beak-like mouth and munched on plants.1
?Could Platytholus head-butt?
Scientists are not sure. The skull had a healed injury, but some experts think the dome was too fragile for head-butting and was mainly used for display.3
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Platytholus
- E rehilwe ke
- Horner et al. 20234
- Sehlopha
- Dihlooho tse chitja
- Lelapa / leloko
- Pachycephalosauridae4
- Tlhophiso
- Ornithischia > Pachycephalosauria4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 72 ho isa ho 66 (Maastrichtian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Hell Creek4
- Dinaha
- Amerika4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- The first Platytholus fossil, a partial skull, was found in the early 2000s in Montana. In 2023, paleontologists John Horner, Mark Goodwin, and David Evans named it Platytholus clemensi.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure if Platytholus used its flat dome for head-butting or for display, since its dome is different from the tall domes of other pachycephalosaurs.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Platytholus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Did dome-headed dinosaurs sport bristly headgear? - Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu)
- Platytholus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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