Foraminacephale

DV-0981 · type species Foraminacephale brevis

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Length: about 1.5 m (5 ft)
Group: Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
Found in: Canada
Named by: Schott and Evans 2017

Field notes

About Foraminacephale

Foraminacephale 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 5 finds of Foraminacephale, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Dinosaur Park Formation. It was named by Schott and Evans in 2017.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

5 finds

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Foraminacephale?

Foraminacephale: about 1.5 m (5 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical pachycephalosaur shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Pachycephalosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. L. Schott and D. C. Evans. 2017. Cranial variation and systematics of Foraminacephale brevis gen. nov. and the diversity of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Cerapoda) in the Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Sociietty 179(4):865-906