Tylocephale
Field photograph to come
Tylocephale
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 1.4 m (5 ft)
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Maryańska and Osmólska 1974
Field notes
About Tylocephale
Tylocephale 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 1 find of Tylocephale, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baruungoyot Formation. It was named by Maryańska and Osmólska in 1974.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Tylocephale?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Pachycephalosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102