Genus
Valid Extinct

Tylocephale

Maryańska and Osmólska 1974
Etymology tête enflée

Tylocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, a group of dome-headed, herbivorous ornithischians, that lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. It is known from a partial skull and associated mandible that were unearthed in 1971 by a Polish-Mongolian Expedition to the Barun Goyot Formation of the Gobi Desert. The specimen was described in 1974 by Polish paleontologists Teresa Maryańska and Halszka Osmólska as a new genus and species.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Tylocephale
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Diagram featuring the holotype skull (ZPAL MgD-I/105) of Tylocephale gilmorei in left lateral view. Scale bar equals 5 cm (50 mm). Based on Maryańska & Osmólska, 1974,[1] and Sullivan, 2006.[2] References ↑ (1974). "Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs". Palaeontologica Polonica (30): 45−102. ↑ (2006). "A taxonomic review of the Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin (35): 347–365. © PaleoNeolitic · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
Tylocephale
Tylocephale
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Pachycephalosauria Suborder
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Pachycephalosauridae Family
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Tylocephale Genus
Measurements
Length
1,6 m ⓘ
Tylocephale gilmorei
1,4 m ⓘ
Mass
20 kg ⓘ
Tylocephale gilmorei
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇳 Mongolia
1
Geological formations
Baruungoyot
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Tylocephale gilmorei 84 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102
Bibliography (1)
T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102