Prenocephale
Sign in to savePrenocephale (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.
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- Length
- 2.4
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- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Mongolia
- taxon name
- Prenocephale
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- Prenocephale
- taxon rank
- genus
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- start time
- 80000000-0
- end time
- 75000000-0
- main food source
- herbivore
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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.
==Discovery== The holotype specimen, Z. Pal. No. MgD-I/104, consists of an isolated yet well-preserved skull, dorsal vertebrae and ribs, sacrum, femora, and caudal vertebrae. It was discovered by the Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition and was found at the Nemegt locality, in a sandstone layer of the Nemegt Formation. Additional specimens have been recovered from the Bügiin Tsav, Guriliin Tsav, and Tsaagan Khushuu localities of the formation.
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