Alaskacephale

Alaska head

• Alaska · English (from Aleut) · Alaska, the place of discovery
• kephale · Greek · head

The name combines "Alaska", the US state where the fossil was found, with the Greek word for "head". It refers to this dome-headed dinosaur's skull, and to the fact that it was one of the few pachycephalosaurs known from the far north. The species name, gangloffi, honours Roland Gangloff, the paleontologist who studied Alaskan dinosaurs.

Named by

Sullivan

Year named

2006

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Prince Creek Formation, northern Alaska, USA

A pachycephalosaurid (dome-headed dinosaur). The only species is Alaskacephale gangloffi. It is known from very fragmentary remains, mainly a squamosal bone.