Colepiocephale
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Colepiocephale Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–77.5Ma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Infraorder: | †Pachycephalosauria |
Family: | †Pachycephalosauridae |
Genus: | †Colepiocephale Sullivan, 2003 |
Species: | † C. lambei |
Binomial name | |
Colepiocephale lambei (Sternberg, 1945 [originally Stegoceras lambei]) | |
Colepiocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian stage) deposits of Alberta, Canada. It was collected from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian, 80-77.5 ma). The type species, C. lambei, was originally described by Sternberg (in 1945 as Stegoceras lambei), and later renamed by Sullivan in 2003. C. lambei is a domed pachycephalosaur characterized principally by the lack of a lateral and posteriosquamosal shelf, a steeply down-turned parietal, and the presence of two incipient nodes tucked under the posterior margin of the parietosquamosal border.[1]
References
- ↑ Sullivan, R. M. (2003). "Revision of the dinosaur Stegoceras Lambe (Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauridae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23: 181–207.
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