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PRENOCEPHALE
(pree-no-sef-ah-lay)
meaning: "Sloped head"
Prenocephale
Named By: Maryanska & Osmolska in 1974
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 80-75 Ma
Location: Mongolia
Size: About 2.4 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Mostly skulls and a few fragmentary post cranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Pachycephalosauridae |
Also known as: | Homalocephale | Sphaerotholus buchholtzae |
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Prenocephale was a small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Mongolia and was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale, which may simply represent Prenocephale juveniles.

Read more about Prenocephale at Wikipedia
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