Colepiocephale
Name:
Colepiocephale
(Knucklehead).
Phonetic: Col-e-pe-o-sef-a-ley.
Named By: R. M. Sullivan - 2003.
Synonyms: Stegoceras lambei.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauria, Pachycephalosauridae.
Species: C. lambei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated at about 1 meter long.
Known locations: Canada, Alberta - Foremost
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull dome.
First named as a species of Stegoceras, Colepiocephale appears to have been a small genus of pachycephalosaur dinosaur that lived in Canada during the late Cretaceous. Unfortunately Colepiocephale is still only known from a partial skull dome, so the exact size of the living dinosaur is still unknown, but estimated to be around the one meter mark.
Further reading
Revision of the dinosaur Stegoceras Lambe
(Ornithischia,
Pachycephalosauridae). - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
23: 181–207 - R. M. Sullivan - 2003.
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