Texacephale
Name:
Texacephale
(Texas head).
Phonetic: Tex-ah-sef-a-lay.
Named By: N. R. Longrich, J. Sankey
& D. Tanke - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauria, Pachycephalosauridae.
Species: T. langstoni
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil material.
Known locations: USA, Texas - Aguja Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial cranial remains.
So far the pachycephalosaur Texacephale is only known from partial skull bones, mostly of the dome that would have grown from the top the head. Texacephale is noted for having two flanges of bone that grew from each side of the dome.
Further reading
- Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of
pachycephalosaurid
(Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja
Formation, southern Texas, USA. - Cretaceous Research 31
(2): 274–284. - N. R. Longrich, J. Sankey &
D. Tanke - 2010.
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