Micropachycephalosaurus Micropachycephalosaurus
"small thick-headed lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Micropachycephalosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Micropachycephalosaurus (meaning “small thick-headed lizard”) is an extinct genus of basal marginocephalian dinosaur, containing only the type species, Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis. It lived in China during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) and was found in the Jiangjunding Formation. It has the longest name of any dinosaur, with 23 letters in the genus name alone, while the full binomial contains 37 letters.
What we know
- Named by Dong, 1978.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in China.