Colepiocephale
Field photograph to come
Colepiocephale
DV-0509 · type species Colepiocephale lambei
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Sullivan 2003
Field notes
About Colepiocephale
Colepiocephale was a plant-eating pachycephalosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Pachycephalosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Colepiocephale, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Foremost Formation. It was named by Sullivan in 2003.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Pachycephalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. M. Sullivan. 2003. Revision of the dinosaur Stegoceras Lambe (Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):181-207