Homalocephale
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Homalocephale 1.8 m (5.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.8 m (5.9 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Homalocephale (from Greek ὁμαλός, homalos, “even”, and κεφαλή, kephalē, “head”) is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period of what is now the Nemegt Formation, Mongolia. The genus was described in 1974 by Halszka Osmólska and Teresa Maryańska, and consists of a single species, H. calathocercos. Though Homalocephale has been regarded as a synonym (and juvenile form) of Prenocephale, juvenile specimens of the latter indicate that they were distinct. Homalocephale was 1.8 m long and possibly an omnivore.
What we know
- Named by Maryanska & Osmolska, 1974.
- Body length estimated at about 1.8 m.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Homalocephale — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.