Goyocephale

Taxobox
name = "Goyocephale"


image_width = 200px
fossil_range =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Marginocephalia
infraordo = Pachycephalosauria
familia = Pachycephalosauridae
genus = "Goyocephale"
genus_authority = Perle, Maryanska, and Osmolska (1982)
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Goyocephale lattimorei"

"Goyocephale" was a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It lived in what is now Mongolia.

"Goyocephale" probably weighed 10-40 kg. The type species, "Goyocephale lattimorei", was formally described by Perle, Maryañska, and Osmólka (1982) from an incomplete skull, mandibles, and fragmentary postcranial material. The skull, which is nearly the same size as the holotype skulls of "Homalocephale calathocercos" and "Prenocephale prenes", has many features in common with the former (a flat skull roof, well-developed supratemporal fenestrae, and nodal ornamentation). However, the proportions of "G. lattimorei" differentiate it from "Homalocephale".

References

* http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/pachycephalosauria.htm
* http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Dinos/Genlist/GenG/Goyoctxg.html