In Depth Initially through to represent a piece of the dinosaur Troodon in 1943, and later the genus Stegoceras, the single dome that makes up the holotype of this genus was named as Hanssuesia in 2003. This came about as a result of the work of R. M. Sullivan in the Stegoceras genus when he … Read more
In Depth Foraminacephale is a genus of small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Fossil material of Foraminacephale was originally assigned to the Stegoceras genus as the species S. brevis, but became the basis of a new genus in 2016 (Schott & Evans). Several partial skulls of Foraminacephale are are … Read more
In Depth Known mostly from skulls, Prenocephale seems to have been a fairly large pachycephalosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia. The snout of Prenocephale is narrower than that of many other pachycephalosaur genera, suggesting that it was more of a selective browser. While Prenocephale is considered to be a valid genus, two others … Read more