#ferganocephale

[fundinofactoftheday]

Dinofact #62

All known pachycepahlosaurs, except for two species, Ferganocephale and Stenopelix lived during the late Cretaceous. Ferganocephale, which can be traced back to the middle Jurassic, lacks some features on its teeth distinctive to all other known pachycephalosaurs, and Stenopelix, traced to the early Cretaceous, is based on a partial skeleton lacking the skull, which some scientists have now reclassified as a ceratopsian. With both outlying species of pachycephalosaurs sometimes considered nomen dubiums, it is possible that all known pachycephalosaurs lived during the late Cretaceous period.

Source: Wikipedia [1], [2], [3]

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Ferganocephale adenticulatum

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart​

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Name: Ferganocephale adenticulatum

Name Meaning: Fergana Head

First Described: 2005

Described By: Averianov et al. 

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia

Ferganocephale is a Neornithischian that is not known from very complete remains - once again, it’s a tooth taxa. It was thought to be a pachycephalosaur, however, very few of the features could conclusively place it in Pachycephalosauria. As such, it has only conclusively been placed in Neornithischia. It was found in Fergana Province, Kyrgyzstan, dating to the Callovian age of the Middle Jurassic, about 162 million years ago. 

Source:

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

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