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 | |
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.