Homalocephale
HOM-a-lo-SEF-a-lee /ˌhɒməloʊˈsɛfəliː/
Accepted genus
even head / level head
- homalos · Greek · even, level, flat
- kephale · Greek · head
The name comes from Greek words meaning "even" or "level" and "head". It refers to the flat, thickened skull roof of this pachycephalosaur, which lacks the high dome seen in relatives such as Pachycephalosaurus. The type species is Homalocephale calathocercos.
- Named by
- Maryańska and Osmólska
- Year named
- 1974
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stages
- Campanian – Maastrichtian
- Found in
- Nemegt Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia
A small bipedal pachycephalosaurid (bone-headed dinosaur). Its stratigraphic age is generally given as Campanian–Maastrichtian, and some sources give only the early Maastrichtian.