2" Pachycephalosaurus Claw - Montana

This is a nice foot claw of the dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus ("thick headed lizard"). The claw is 2" long and is preserved. Pachycephalosaurus bones and claws are rare finds, as most of what is found is teeth and skull fragments. There is one crack repair with some gap fill work in the middle of the claw and the very tip of it has been restored.

Pachycephalosaurus was a bipedal dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period and probably was about 15 feet in length.

Pachycephalosaurus had a distinctive, large, bony, dome on top of it's skull up to 10 inches thick to cushion it's brain from impacts.

Some paleontologists believe this thick skull may have been used for head-butting, much like rams while others contend it may have been a sexual display.

It was one of the last non-avian dinosaurs before the K-T extinction event, 65 million years ago.

There is only one known species of Pachycephalosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis. It's remains have been found in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming.

It was either a herbivore or an omnivore with small leaf shaped teeth which would have been very effective at shredding plants.