Stegoceras

roof horn

• stegos · Greek · roof
• keras · Greek · horn

The name comes from Greek words for "roof" and "horn". Lambe chose it in 1918 for the small knobs or nodes on the skull of this pachycephalosaurid, which he described from a skull roof. The type species is Stegoceras validum.

Named by

Lambe

Year named

1918

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada

A small bone-headed dinosaur (Pachycephalosauria). Other species once placed in the genus have been moved to other genera.