Prenocephale
"sloping head"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Prenocephale 2.2 m (7.2 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 2.2 m (7.2 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Prenocephale (meaning “sloping head”) is a genus of small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale.
What we know
- Named by Maryańska & Osmólska, 1974.
- Body length estimated at about 2.2 m.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Prenocephale — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.