Outline: a typical pachycephalosaur
Foraminacephale
Type species Foraminacephale brevis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 1.5 m (5 ft)
- Group
- Pachycephalosaurs, Pachycephalosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Schott and Evans 2017
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical pachycephalosaur shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Foraminacephale
What it was like
Foraminacephale was a small pachycephalosaur about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long, a plant eater with a thick bony dome. Its skull had many small holes and a low, rounded dome.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Alberta, Canada. It comes from the Dinosaur Park Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus, the horned Styracosaurus and the crested duckbill Parasaurolophus.
How it was found
Schott and Evans named Foraminacephale in 2017, for a species first placed in Stegoceras. The type species is Foraminacephale brevis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Pachycephalosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. L. Schott and D. C. Evans. 2017. Cranial variation and systematics of Foraminacephale brevis gen. nov. and the diversity of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Cerapoda) in the Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Sociietty 179(4):865-906