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Pachycephalosauridae

Foraminacephale brevis

"foramina head"

Generic pachycephalosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Foraminacephale 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic pachycephalosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Foraminacephale
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (77–73 Mya)
Place
Canada · Alberta, Canada
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Pachycephalosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Dome-headed bipedal herbivores.
Foraminacephale reconstruction by IJReid
Reconstruction · IJReid (CC-BY)

Foraminacephale (meaning “foramina head”) is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) deposits of Canada.

What we know

  • Named by (Lambe, 1918).
  • Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Foraminacephale — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.