Colepiocephale

knucklebone head

• kolepion · Greek · knucklebone
• kephale · Greek · head

The name combines the Greek word for "knucklebone" with the word for "head". It refers to the thick, domed skull roof, whose rounded shape resembles a knucklebone. Colepiocephale was a pachycephalosaurid, a "boneheaded" dinosaur. Its only species, C. lambei, was first described as a species of Stegoceras and was later given its own genus.

Named by

Sullivan

Year named

2003

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada

The type species is Colepiocephale lambei. It was originally named Stegoceras lambei by Sternberg in 1945. It is known mainly from skull domes.