Sinocephale
Field photograph to come
Sinocephale
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- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Evans et al. 2021
Field notes
About Sinocephale
Sinocephale was a plant-eating pachycephalosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Pachycephalosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Sinocephale, from China. Its fossils come from the Ulansuhai Formation. It was named by Evans et al. in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Pachycephalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: D. C. Evans, C. M. Brown, and H. You, N. E. Campione. 2021. Description and revised diagnosis of Asia's first recorded pachycephalosaurid, Sinocephale bexelli gen. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 58(10)