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Homalocephale (from Greek ὁμαλός, homalos, "even", and κεφαλή, kephalē, "head") is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period of what is now the Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, about 70 million years ago.
Restoration of Homalocephale in its paleoenvironment. The Asian and North American species of pachycephalosaurs lived in markedly different environments. Asian specimens are normally more intact, indicating they were not transported far from their place of death before fossilization.
The clade also includes Stenopelix, Wannanosaurus, Goyocephale, Stegoceras, Homalocephale, Tylocephale, Sphaerotholus, and Prenocephale. Within the tribe Pachycephalosaurini, Pachycephalosaurus is most closely related to Alaskacephale. Dracorex and Stygimoloch have also been synonymized with Pachycephalosaurus. [11] [4]
It was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale but unlike the flattened wedge-shaped skull of later (a possible juvenile trait also potentially seen in early growth stages of Pachycephalosaurus), the head of Prenocephale was rounded and sloping. Sphaerotholus. S. goodwini; S. edmontonensis; S. lyonsi; Campanian to Maastrichtian
Homalocephale calathoceros: MPC-D 100/1201 [100] Mongolian Natural History Museum [100] Early Maastrichtian: Nemegt Formation, Mongolia [100] Partial skull, mostly complete back legs, and numerous vertebrae [100] Has been suggested to be a juvenile specimen of Prenocephale, but this is largely rejected [101] [102] [26] The mounted holotype with ...
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Homalocephale has been viewed as a possible juvenile of Prenocephale due to the lack of a dome and its discovery in the same location and chronological interval, but new specimens of Prenocephale, including a juvenile specimen, suggest that Homalocephale, even if its holotype is a juvenile, is distinct. [2]
Skeletal reconstruction of the pachycephalosaur Homalocephale, showing a caudal basket of myorhabdoi of the tail myorhabdoi Myorhabdoi (also: myorhabdoid ossifications) are bones found in the tail of pachycephalosaurs.