Prenocephale
Field photograph to come
Prenocephale
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- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 2.4 m (8 ft)
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs
- Found in
- Mongolia and United States
- Named by
- Maryańska and Osmólska 1974
Field notes
About Prenocephale
Prenocephale was a plant-eating pachycephalosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 4 finds of Prenocephale, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from rocks including the Nemegt Formation and the Kirtland Formation. It was named by Maryańska and Osmólska in 1974.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
To scale
How big was Prenocephale?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Eupachycephalosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102