#stenopelix

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What piece of yours took the longest to make?

Uhhhh, that's actually one I did very recently. It's a large and very detailed mural that I spend half a year on. It shows the animals and plants that inhabited the early Cretaceous of Northern Germany. This will be printed over roughly 10 m length right next to a bunch of footprints of some of these animals at the Dinosaur Park Münchehagen. Here a small part of it

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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]

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Stenopelix valdensis

By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable

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Name: Stenopelix valdensis

Name Meaning: Narrow Pelvis

First Described: 1857

Described By: Meyer

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia

Stenopelix is an enigmatic dinosaur from the Wealden Formation in Germany, dating back to about 127 million years ago, in the Barremian age of the Early Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skeleton that completely lacks the skull, which is where the problems surrounding this little dinosaur lie. It has been thought to be an Ornithopod, a Ceratopsian, a Pachycephalosaur, and an indeterminant Marginocephalian. Though it has been recovered as the sister taxon of Yinlong, this is still up in the air; for now, it’s best to say that the jury is still out, and will be until better remains of this animal are found. 

Source:

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

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