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Prenocephale (meaning "sloping head") is a
genus of
small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It was similar...
- Goyocephale, Stegoceras, Homalocephale, Tylocephale, Sphaerotholus, and
Prenocephale.
Within the
tribe Pachycephalosaurini,
Pachycephalosaurus is most closely...
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Homalocephale has been
regarded as a
synonym (and
juvenile form) of
Prenocephale,
juvenile specimens of the
latter indicate that they were distinct. Homalocephale...
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migration was by a
common ancestor of Stygimoloch, Stegoceras, Tylocephale,
Prenocephale, and Pachycephalosaurus. The
second event occurred before the middle...
- pachycephalosaurians. ****van (2003)
considered S.
buchholtzae a
junior synonym of
Prenocephale edmontonensis (or
Sphaerotholus edmontonensis). However,
Mallon et al...
- Two
traits also
differentiate Foraminacephale from
Sphaerotholus and
Prenocephale:
there are
prominent grooves between the
central lobe and the lateral...
- size of
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis or three-quarters the size of
Prenocephale, and
about the same size as
Sphaerotholus and Foraminacephale. The latter...
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ankylosaurids Saichania and Tarchia; and
pachycephalosaurids Homalocephale and
Prenocephale. The
Nemegt megafauna included the
ornithomimosaur Deinocheirus; hadrosaurids...
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genus Prenocephale (until then only
known from the
Mongolian species P. prenes), and
found it more
likely that S.
bexelli belonged to
Prenocephale than...
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hypothesized use. A.
audeti was
recovered as the
sister taxon to
Prenocephale prenes.
Acrotholus is the
earliest known specimen of pachycephalosaur...
