Ferganocephale
Name:
Ferganocephale
(Fergana Province head).
Phonetic: Fer-gan-o-sef-ah-le.
Named By: A. O. Averianov, T. Martin
& A. A. Bakirov - 2005.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Pachycephalosauria.
Species: F. adenticulatum
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: Kyrgyzstan - Balabansai
Formation.
Time period: Callovian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Teeth.
Ferganocephale is a dinosaur tooth taxon that might represent one of the earliest appearances of a pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. However, some researchers consider the teeth attributed to Ferganocephale to not be diagnostic enough to represent a new genus, and prefer to treat it as a Nomen dubium. Indeed, this is a common interpretation of all animals that are known only from teeth.
Further reading
- Pterosaur and dinosaur remains from the Middle Jurassic Balabansai
Svita in the northern Fergana depression, Kyrgyzstan (central
Asia). - Palaeontology 48(1):135-155 - A. O.
Averianov, T. Martin & A. A. Bakirov - 2005.
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