#microcephale

After a pretty long while here’s a selection of my pieces for the A Dinosaur A Day blog! Soon enough I’ll be uploading another one full of horned faces, for now it’s just Protoceratops hehe.  Showcasing Brachylophosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Acrotholus, Stegoceras, "Microcephale", a Pachycephalosaurus juvenile (formerly Dracorex), Protoceratops, the non-dinosaurian Scleromochlus, Savannasaurus, and Tatisaurus

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart​

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Name: “Microcephale”

Name Meaning: Tiny Head

First Mentioned: 1997

Mentioned By: Sereno

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Pachycephalosauria, Pachycephalosauridae

“Microcephale” is an informal name given to very small Pachycephalosaurid skull caps, which were less than 5 cm in diameter. However, very little is known about this Chunkie - since it hasn’t been formally described, it is uncertain what the actual size of this animal was (though “cat sized” has been proposed for it). It was found in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, canada, dating back to the Late Campanian, about 72 million years ago. Until these fragments are described - and don’t hold your breath on that - very little can be said about this potentially tiny animal. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcephale