Colepiocephale

Colepiocephale

Holozoa

Colepiocephale
Temporal range: Middle Campanian, 80–77.5 Ma
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Family: †Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: †Colepiocephale
Sullivan, 2003
Species: †C. lambei
Binomial name
Colepiocephale lambei
(Sternberg, 1945 [originally 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.[1]

References

  1. ^ Sullivan, R. M. (2003). "Revision of the dinosaur Stegoceras Lambe (Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauridae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23: 181–207. 
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