Tylocephale

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Tylocephale
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Marginocephalia
Infraorder: Pachycephalosauria
Family: Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: Tylocephale
Maryanska and Osmolska, 1974
Species

T. gilmorei

Tylocephale ("swollen head", from the Greek τυλη meaning 'callus' or 'hard swelling' and κεφαλη meaning 'head') was a pachycephalosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It was a herbivore. It is estimated to have been about 1.4 metres in length and it had the highest dome of any known pachycephalosaur.

It was discovered in the Khulsan region of Mongolia. The type species is T. gilmorei, described by Maryanska and Osmolska, in 1974.

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