Pachyrhinosaurus

The presence of a forehead spike suggests Dinosaur King's Pachyrhinosaurus model may belong to P. lakustai, though its nose and eye bosses don't resemble P. lakustai or in fact any known specimens.

General Statistics

full-sized Pachyrhinosaurus

• Name: Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis/lakustai/perotorum
• Name Meaning: Thick-Nosed Lizard
• Diet: Herbivore
• Length: 6-8 meters (20-26 feet)
• Classification: Ceratopsidae --> Centrosaurinae --> Pachyrhinosaurini
• Time Period: Late Cretaceous
• Place Found: Alberta Canada, Alaska USA
• Describer: Sternberg, 1950

Dinosaur King Statistics

Arcade Stats

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition)

• Attribute: Lightning
• Sign: Paper
• Strength: 1800
• Technique: 400
  • Compatibility: Tab 2
• Attack:
  • Paper (Critical): 720
  • Rock/Scissors: 465
• Types:
  • Tie Type (Japanese 2006 series; English & Taiwanese Series 1)
  • Counter Type (Japanese 2007 series; English Series 2; Taiwanese New Series)
  • Heroic Type (Japanese Gekizan series)
  • Rock-Rock Type (Japanese Kakushin series)
• Arcade Nickname:
  • Japanese: 究極の角竜
  • English: The Ultimate Horned Lizard
  • Taiwanese: 極致的角龍
• Card Rarity: Silver

Availability

• Japanese
  • 3rd Edition (New; 004-竜)
  • 2006 Rainy Season Limited Edition (004-竜)
  • 4th Edition (005-竜; Tie Type)
  • 5th Edition (006-竜; Tie Type)
  • 2006 Winter Season Limited Edition (007-竜; Tie Type)
  • 2007 1st Edition (005-竜; Counter Type)
  • 2007 1st Edition+ (005-竜; Counter Type)
  • 2007 2nd Edition (007-竜; Counter Type)
  • Non-sale Lightning Egg (EGG-004-竜)
  • Non-sale Warriors of Thunder
  • 2007 3rd Edition (007-竜; Counter Type)
  • 2007 4th Edition (006-竜; Counter Type)
  • 2007 4th Edition+ (005-竜; Counter Type)
  • Gekizan 2nd Edition (005-竜; Heroic Type)
  • Non-sale North American Egg (EGG-011-竜)
  • Kakushin 1st Edition (007-竜; Rock-Rock Type)
  • Kakushin 3rd Edition's Blue Dinosaurs Egg (EGG-018-竜)
• English
  • 1st Edition Version 2 (New; Dino-09)
  • 2nd Edition (005-Dino; Tie Type)
  • 3rd Edition (006-Dino; Tie Type)
  • 4th Edition (007-Dino; Tie Type)
  • 2008 Special Edition (009-Dino; Tie Type)
  • Series 2 1st Edition (005-Dino; Counter Type)
  • Series 2 2nd Edition (007-Dino; Counter Type)
  • Series 2 3rd Edition (007-Dino; Counter Type)
  • Series 2 4th Edition (005-Dino; Counter Type)
• Taiwanese
  • 1st Edition Extension (New; 龍-09)
  • 2nd Edition (005-龍; Tie Type)
  • 3rd Edition (006-龍; Tie Type)
  • 4th Edition (007-龍; Tie Type)
  • 2008 Special Edition (009-龍; Tie Type)
  • New 1st Edition (005-龍; Counter Type)
  • New 2nd Edition (007-龍; Counter Type)
  • New 3rd Edition (007-龍; Counter Type)
  • New 4th Edition (005-龍; Counter Type)
  • Non-sale Lightning Egg

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 3rd Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2006 Winter Season Limited Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2007 1st Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2007 2nd Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2007 3rd Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2007 4th Edition)

Back of Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese 2007 4th Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese Gekizan 2nd Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Japanese Kakushin 2nd Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (English 1st Edition Version 2)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (English 2008 Special Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (English Series 2 1st Edition)

Back of Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (English Series 2 1st Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (English Series 2 2nd Edition)

Back of Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (English Series 2 2nd Edition)

Pachyrhinosaurus arcade card (Taiwanese 2008 Special Edition)

Anime Stats

Pachyrhinosaurus anime card

• Attribute: Lightning
• Owner: Foolscap (Spectral Space Pirates), Max Taylor (D-Team)
• Location: Ancient Persia, 757
• Appearance: Desert Heat
• Dinosaurs Defeated: Ace (through Anhanguera)
• Other Forms: Spectral Armor Pachyrhinosaurus
• Other: Not counting Maximus, it was the last new Lightning Dinosaur to appear in the anime.

Move Cards

Anhanguera Dive

Pachyrhinosaurus summons Anhanguera, who divebombs its opponent!

TCG Stats

Pachyrhinosaurus (DKCG)

Pachyrhinosaurus TCG card (DKCG)

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1800
• Level: 5
• Life: 3
• Card Code: DKCG-028/160
• Card Rarity: Gold Rare
• Image From: cropped 07 1st(+)/S2 1st/New 1st arcade card
• Other Forms: Spectral Armor Pachyrhinosaurus
• Abilities:

[Power Shield] If you have 2 other Lightning Dinosaurs in play when this Dinosaur loses a battle, you lose 1 less Life Point from that battle.

Snow-Peak Pachyrhinosaurus

Snow-Peak Pachyrhinosaurus TCG card

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1800
• Level: 5
• Life: 3
• Card Code: DKBD-017/100, DKBD-094/100
• Card Rarity: Common, Colossal Rare
• Image From: (new art)
• Abilities:

[Fusion Shock] When this Dinosaur uses a Fusion Move and wins the battle, your opponent can't Dino Slash any more Dinosaurs this turn.

Snow-Peak Pachyrhinosaurus Colossal Rare TCG card

Grazing Pachyrhinosaurus

Grazing Pachyrhinosaurus TCG card

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Paper
• Power: 1700
• Level: 5
• Life: 3
• Card Code: DKTA-017/100
• Card Rarity: Common
• Image From: 06 Rainy/08 Special arcade card
• Abilities:

[Lightning Barrier] While you have a Dinosaur with "Chomp" in its name in play, neither player can Dino Slash level 6 or higher Dinosaurs.

Pachyrhinosaurus (SAS)

Pachyrhinosaurus TCG card (SAS) (French)

• Element: Lightning
• Icon: Scissors
• Power: 1700
• Level: 5
• Life: 3
• Card Code: SAS-017/100
• Card Rarity: Common
• Image From: cropped Kaku 2nd arcade card
• Abilities:

[Spirited Stun] During your turn, you can discard 1 card. If your do, choose a Dinosaur your opponent has in play: it loses all of its abilities until the end of your turn. You can only use this ability once per turn.

Anime

Mesozoic Meltdown

Pachyrhinosaurus was summoned by Foolscap in Ancient Persia during Desert Heat to attack the D-Team when he thought they had the Red Cosmos Stone. It quickly knocked Chomp away, and when Ace was summoned, it fought in its Spectral Armor form against him. He then used Anhanguera Dive, summoning Anhanguera to defeat Ace. However, Paris was then summoned and she and Chomp used their DinoTector forms to battle them both. Paris countered the Move with Green Impulse, summoning Tupuxuara, who grabbed and dragged Anhanguera against the ground to defeat it. Its card was presumably reclaimed by Zoe. Chomp then used Ultimate Thunder to defeat Pachyrhinosaurus, destroying its Spectral Armor. Its card was reclaimed by Max.

Shear was briefly seen holding another Spectral Armor Pachyrhinosaurus card in a handful of other repeats in The French Conniption, but never used it, only summoning Rajasaurus. It was probably liberated along with the other dinosaurs when the Space Pirates were finally defeated.

Character Design

Personality

Not much is known about the personality of Pachyrhinosaurus, as it was under Foolscap´s control when fighting the D-Team. It appears to be a strong fighter since it was able to fend off Chomp and Ace, but since it only appeared briefly in the episode, this can only be suspected.

Trivia

• Dr. Taylor's arcade comments:
  • Japanese: 太く力強い角を鼻先に持つ草食恐竜だ。えりかざりにはいろいろな形の角がある。
  • English: A herbivore with a stocky, strong horn on its nose. It can have very differently-shaped spikes on its neck frill.
  • Taiwanese: 鼻尖長著粗壯且強而有力的角的草食恐龍，在領飾部分有著各種形狀的角。
• It is the first Silver rarity Lightning Dinosaur card in the arcade.
• Along with Styracosaurus, Torosaurus, Triceratops, Chasmosaurus, Eucentrosaurus, Einiosaurus, Arrhinoceratops, and Brachyceratops, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese and Taiwanese non-sale Lightning Egg card.
• Along with Tyrannosaurus, Edmontonia, Corythosaurus, Camarasaurus, and Dilophosaurus, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese non-sale North American Egg card.
• Along with Pentaceratops, Monoclonius, Arrhinoceratops, Brachyceratops, and Chasmosaurus, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese non-sale Warriors of Thunder card.
• Along with Ampelosaurus, Altirhinus, Jobaria, Deltadromeus, Allosaurus, Brachylophosaurus, Irritator, Gorgosaurus, and Talarurus, it is one of the available dinosaurs in the Japanese Blue Egg card.
• Despite being portrayed with a large, sharp, bony protrusion on its nose, in reality, Pachyrhinosaurus would only have had a flat, maybe rough, slightly raised bony pad (as seen in the skeleton image in the Gallery below).
  • This may be due to many Lightning Moves requiring large, pointed horns to use, which Pachyrhinosaurus didn't have. However, Achelousaurus, a related ceratopsian without a nose horn, wasn't changed.
  • Another possibility is that it followed the theory that Pachyrhinosaurus had a horn made of keratin, like a rhino’s horn, which wouldn't be present in a fossil. However, as mentioned above, Achelousaurus wasn't given a similar nose horn.
• It is one of the most briefly-appearing anime dinosaurs of all, with both dinosaur and card appearing for an approximate total combined 35 seconds onscreen. This is approximately equal with Lanzhousaurus and ever so slightly more than Piatnitzkysaurus.
• When its card floats down after being defeated, it is Yangchuanosaurus' card, but it's Pachyrhinosaurus' when Max catches it. This is likely because they had recycled the animation from Yang's episode and forgot to change all of it.
• Unlike every other non-main dinosaur in the TCG, Pachyrhinosaurus has 2 completely different versions of its regular TCG card with different abilities (not counting those in the Figure Set). One is in the original Base Set (DKCG), and the other is in the Spectral Armor Shock deck (SAS). Why the plain Pachyrhinosaurus was reused instead of simply adding another word to its name to create a "new" dinosaur card as had been standard in the TCG for some time is unknown.

Gallery

Pachyrhinosaurus after being summoned by Foolscap

Pachyrhinosaurus charging Chomp

Pachyrhinosaurus hitting Chomp

Pachyrhinosaurus from NagoyaTV

Pachyrhinosaurus Kyoryu-King Museum close-up

Pachyrhinosaurus figure

Pachyrhinosaurus mini-figure

Pachyrhinosaurus using Thunder Bazooka in Japanese arcade gameplay (attacking Utahraptor)

Pachyrhinosaurus skeleton (with a correct flat nose pad, instead of the thick horn seen in Dinosaur King)