| Platytholus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Skeletal diagram of Platytholus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Pachycephalosauria |
| Family: | †Pachycephalosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Pachycephalosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Platytholus Horner, Goodwin & Evans, 2023 |
| Species: | †P. clemensi
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| †Platytholus clemensi Horner, Goodwin & Evans, 2023
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Platytholus is an extinct genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of the United States. The genus contains a single species, P. clemensi, known from a partial skull.[1]
- ^ Horner, John R.; Goodwin, Mark B.; Evans, David C. (2023-04-14). "A new pachycephalosaurid from the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (4): e2190369. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2190369. ISSN 0272-4634.