Dracorex coloring page

 This is a free coloring pages blog.  Today's new drawing is of a Dracorex.

Dracorex hogwartsia

This dinosaur is one of the Pachycephalosaurs.  In fact, it has been suggested by John Horner that this is actually a juvenile Pachycephalosaur.  He also thinks that Stygimoloch was also a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus.  

In any case, Dracorex was named for the Harry Potter series.  Its species name is from the wizarding school of Hogwarts.  As a junior high science teacher, I ran both a Paleontology Club and a Fantasy and Sci Fi Club so this animal is where the two worlds meet!  

The name Dracorex means Dragon King.  This dinosaur's head definitely looks like the head of the mythical dragon.  

The fossilized bones of Dracorex were bones of a juvenile that would have been around 10 feet long and weighed around 100 lbs.  Those measurements in metrics are about 3 meters long and about 45 kg. 

NOTE:  To get to the printable version of the drawings here just click on the Paleontology button and scroll down to the bottom of the list for the new drawing.  The older drawing will be further up the list.  Below is an older drawing of the same dinosaur.   Have fun coloring.

Dracorex from South Dakota USA