Micropachycephalosaurus
"small thick-headed lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Micropachycephalosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Micropachycephalosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.