Prenocephale

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Prenocephale
An artist's impression of Prenocephale.
An artist's impression of Prenocephale.
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Cerapoda
Infraorder: Pachycephalosauria
Family: Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: Prenocephale
Marya´nska & Osmólska, 1974
Species
  • P. prenes
  • P. brevis
  • P. edmontonense

Prenocephale was a small pachycephalosaur from Late Cretaceous Mongolia, and was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale. Prenocephale probably weighed around 130 kilograms and was around 2 meters to 3 meters long. Unlike the flattened skull of Homalocephale, the head of Prenocephale was more rounded and sloping.

[edit] In popular culture

Prenocephale was shown in the Discovery Channel special Dinosaur Planet being hunted by and killing a Velociraptor.

A cast of a fossilized skull of P. prenes exhibited
Left: Front view; Right: Side view.



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