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COLEPIOCEPHALE
(col-e-pe-o-sef-a-ley)
meaning: "Knucklehead"
Colepiocephale
Named By: R. M. Sullivan in 2003
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 80-77.5 Ma
Location: Canada, Alberta - Foremost Formation
Size: Roughly estimated at about 1 meter long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull dome
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Pachycephalosauria | Pachycephalosauridae |
Also known as: | Stegoceras lambei |
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Colepiocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian stage) deposits of Alberta, Canada. It was collected from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian, 80-77.5 ma). The type species, C. lambei, was originally described by Sternberg (in 1945 as Stegoceras lambei), and later renamed by Sullivan in 2003. C. lambei is a domed pachycephalosaur characterized principally by the lack of a lateral and posteriosquamosal shelf, a steeply down-turned parietal, and the presence of two incipient nodes tucked under the posterior margin of the parietosquamosal border.

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