Amtocephale
Field photograph to come
Amtocephale
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- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Watabe et al. 2011
Field notes
About Amtocephale
Amtocephale was a plant-eating pachycephalosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Pachycephalosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Amtocephale, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baynshire Formation. It was named by Watabe et al. in 2011.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Pachycephalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar, and R. M. Sullivan. 2011. A new pachycephalosaurid from the Baynshire Formation (Cenomanian-late Santonian), Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:489-497