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 | |
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.