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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