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Micropachycephalosaurus
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Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis
Micropachycephalosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1978 · Dong, Z.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 0.6 m · 2 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Cerapoda
The story in short
The genus Micropachycephalosaurus dates to 1978, the year Z. Dong described it. The name means “small thick-headed lizard.”
Fossils referred to Micropachycephalosaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Micropachycephalosaurus at a length near 0.6 m.
On the family tree it sits in Cerapoda, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.