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I am building a beastmaster ranger for pfs, and was hoping to use the pachycephalosaurus to do so. I have the following questions. The dino has a slam attack that does 2d6 in the bestiary, and a gore attack that does 1d10 as an animal companion. Is this a misprint?
Since the beast still has the clobbering charge ability, I would think that the slam should stay, and the damage scaling (1d8 to 2d6 instead of 1d10) would work correctly.
Is this something that has already been resolved, or just an oversight?
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Many Animal Companions are statted differently from their Bestiary entries. If there has been no errata issued, go with the Animal Companion stats.
Looking at the two entries further, the Bestiary entry has a lower Strength than the Animal Companion, which should even out the slight discrepancy in dice damage.
Animal companions are not the same creatures as their base monsters. When figuring out an animal companion's abilities, you should be able to get everything you need from the animal companion's stat block without using the Bestiary monster stat block at all. The only exception to this is if the animal companion's stat block itself references an ability from the Bestiary entry or the Universal Monster Rules.
There are a lot of strange deviations in the animal companion entries. For example, the manta ray and giant moray eel animal companions are not aquatic and thus don't breathe water instead of air. This is pretty silly, so feel free to lobby the GM for similarly ridiculous deviations. Numeric deviations, however, are usually intentional.