Homalocephale

Homalocephale

Pronunciation:
Home-ah-loh-keff-ah-lee
Name meaning:
'level head'
Homalocephale
pachycephalosaur silhouette
Type of dinosaur:
pachycephalosaur
Length:
1.5m
Diet:
herbivorous herbivorous food icon
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 72-68 million years ago
Found in:
Mongolia

Homalocephale is known from a complete skull and a nearly complete postcranium.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Pachycephalosauria, Goyocephala, Homalocephaloidea
Named by:
MaryaŠska and Osmólska (1974)
Type species:
calathocercos

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