Texacephale

Texacephale
Temporal range: Late Campanian, 77 Ma
Holotype frontoparietal dome from the Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Pachycephalosauria
Family: Pachycephalosauridae
Genus: Texacephale
Longrich, Sankey & Tanke, 2010
Species:
T. langstoni
Binomial name
Texacephale langstoni
Longrich et al., 2010

Texacephale is a possibly dubious genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils come from the Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, in Texas, and were described in 2010 by Longrich, Sankey and Tanke. The generic name means Texas + "head" (kephale in Greek) in reference to its place of discovery, and the specific name langstoni honors Wann Langston.[1] It may be a synonym of Stegoceras.[2]

  1. ^ Longrich, N.R.; Sankey, J. & Tanke, D. (2010). "Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southern Texas, USA". Cretaceous Research. 31 (2): 274–284. Bibcode:2010CrRes..31..274L. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.12.002.
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