Tylocephale

Pronunciation:
tie-loh-keff-ah-lee
Name meaning:
'swelling head'
Type of dinosaur:
pachycephalosaur
Length:
1.4m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 75-72 million years ago
Found in:
Mongolia

Tylocephale is known from a partial skull, including the mandible (jawbone).

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Pachycephalosauria, Pachycephalosauridae
Named by:
Maryańska and Osmólska (1974)
Type species:
gilmorei