Styracosaurus

***Styracosaurus*** ( meaning "spiked lizard") was an herbivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. It was a relative of *Centrosaurus* and *Monoclonius*. Unlike them, however, *Styracosaurus* had six long horns extending from its neck frill, a smaller horn above each of its eyes, and a single horn protruding from its nose at 60 centimeters (2 feet) long and 15 centimeters (6 inches) wide. It was a large dinosaur, reaching lengths of 6 meters (20 feet) and weighing as much as 4 tons. It stood about 1.8 meters (6 feet) tall.

## Appearances

### Old Buck

The film opens on a shot on the Old Buck himself as he wakes up proudly displaying his inward facing horns. In the herd a young male is fighting another Styracosaurus and winning, as the Old Buck arrives the Young Buck notices and challenges him.

When the fight begins, the Young Buck gets the initial upper hand, raking him and shoving him across the field as a few other Styracosaurus' (including the Old Buck's kids) watch. Eventually the Old Buck gets the advantage, pushing the younger dinosaur on its back and then stabbing him, causing him to bleed out and the Styracosaurus' that initially rallied behing the Young Buck to run away, this ended with the Old Buck winning the fight.

After the fight, the Old Buck rests on the hill from the beginning, retaining his position as alpha but it is unclear for how much longer.

### The Last Tyrant

During the ending montage the Old Buck and his herd are briefly shown (alongside the Hannah skull which inspired the whole series in the first place), with the herd roaring as the Old Buck stands proudly over them.

## Behind The Scenes

The choice to feature Styracosaurus albertensis as the main focus over any over animal came from the fossil UAL VP55900 or "Hannah". This was due to Hannahs asymmetrical frill with the left side of her frill having more horns than the right, this brought into question how dinosaur classification is used with the dinosaur Rubeosaurus (Styracosaurus ovatus) being merged with albertensis for the time being with the belief that the inward facing horns of ovatus could be just more frill variation from albertensis. During the making of Old Buck, David Silvas Beasts of the Mesozoic ceratopsian line came out with the Styracosaurus figure in particular being very useful for the film as things like camera angles and poses could be tested with it instead of using storyboards. The male, Young Buck and Old Buck Stracosaurus models in the film have stripes running down their back as a direct reference to the Beasts of the Mesozoic Styracosaurus figure, the figure was also used alongside a Chasmosaurus figure to choreograph the fight scene.

In Old Buck there was intended to be a decent amount of variation in the Styracosaurus' with five seperate models being used: generic males, female, juvenile, Old Buck and Young Buck. The models of all the male Styracosaurus' have stripes with them increasing in boldness with age, the youngest having the least amount of stripes and the oldest having the most (the juveniles and females do not posses these stripes). Both the Old Buck and Young Buck models are references to the fossils that inspired the film, the Old Buck having the same frill orientation as Styracosaurus ovatus and the Young Buck having an extra horn and visible pathology on his left side as a reference to Hannah.

## Gallery

### Old Buck

Introductory shot of the Old BuckA baby StyracosaurusThe Old Buck after winning the fightThe Young Buck bleeding out
### The Last Tyrant

UALVP55900 "Hannah" as seen in The Last Tyrant
## Trivia

* The only Styracosaurus models with pink frills are the Old Buck and the juveniles, implying that the juvenile Styracosaurus' in the film are the Old Bucks kids with him being the dominant breeding male.
* Ironically the Styracosaurus design from this film got a Beasts of the Mesozoic figure, with two versions of the Old Buck one normal and one bloody.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24nLoBeBx-Q
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Beast\_SculptKit/status/1493661757130350601

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