| Goyocephale Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Holotype skull, dorsal view | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Pachycephalosauria |
| Family: | †Pachycephalosauridae |
| Genus: | †Goyocephale Perle et al., 1982 |
| Species: | †G. lattimorei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Goyocephale lattimorei Perle et al., 1982
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Goyocephale is an extinct genus of pachycephalosaurian ornithischian that lived in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous about 76 million years ago.[1] It was first described in 1982 by Altangerel Perle, Teresa Maryańska and Halszka Osmólska for a disarticulated skeleton with most of a skull, part of the forelimb and hindlimb, some of the pelvic girdle, and some vertebrae. Perle et al. named the remains Goyocephale lattimorei, from the Mongolian гоё (goyo), meaning "decorated", and the Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephale), for head. The species name honours Owen Lattimore.[2]
- ^ Sullivan, R.M. (2006). "A taxonomic review of the Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)" (PDF). In Lucas, Spencer G.; Sullivan, Robert M. (eds.). Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Western Interior. Vol. 35. pp. 347–366.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - ^ Perle, A.; Maryańska, T.; Osmólska, H. (1982). "Goyocephale lattimorei gen. et sp. n., a new flat -headed pachycephalosaur (Ornithlschia , Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 27 (1–4): 115–127.