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dome-headed dinosaur
Amtocephale
Say it like this: “AM-tuh-SEF-uh-lee”
Amtocephale gobiensis
Amtocephale ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Turonian · Coniacian · Santonian) · roughly 93.9 to 83.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2011 · Watabe, M.; Tsogtbaatar, K.; Sullivan, R. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 0.7 m · 2 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Mongolia · Bayanshiree
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- dome-headed dinosaur · Pachycephalosaur
- Family branch
- Pachycephalosauridae
The story in short
In 2011, M. Watabe and colleagues published the name Amtocephale. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Turonian · Coniacian · Santonian), roughly 93.9 to 83.6 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Bayanshiree Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Amtocephale at a length near 0.7 m.
On the family tree it sits in Pachycephalosauridae, among the dome-headed dinosaurs.