Stegoceras

Pronunciation:
ste-GOS-er-as
Name meaning:
'horny roof'
Stegoceras
Type of dinosaur:
pachycephalosaur
Length:
2.4m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 76-74 million years ago
Found in:
Canada,
USA

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Pachycephalosauria, Pachycephalosauridae
Named by:
Lambe (1902)
Type species:
validum

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