Alaskacephale

Alaskacephale
Temporal range: Late Campanian, 80–69 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Pachycephalosauria
Family: †Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: †Alaskacephale
Sullivan, 2006
Species:
†A. gangloffi
Binomial name
Alaskacephale gangloffi
Sullivan, 2006

Alaskacephale is a pachycephalosaurid dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous (around 80 to 69 million years ago).

Alaskacephale was named by Robert Sullivan in 2006. Alaskacephale was about half the size of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis and three quarters the size of Prenocephale, and about the same size as Sphaerotholus and Foraminacephale.

References

  1. ↑ Sullivan, RM (2006). "A taxonomic review of the Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)" (PDF). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin (35): 347–365. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
  2. ↑ Gangloff, R.A.; A.R. Fiorillo; D.W. Norton (2005). "The first pachycephalosaurine (Dinosauria) from the Paleo-Arctic of Alaska and its paleogeographic implications". Journal of Paleontology. 79 (5): 997–1001. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079[0997:tfpdft]2.0.co;2. S2CID 130669713.