Kingdom Animalia Class Reptilia Order †Ornithischia Rank Genus | Phylum Chordata Clade Dinosauria Family †Pachycephalosauridae | |
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Similar Hanssuesia, Alaskacephale, Gravitholus, Sphaerotholus, Amtocephale |
Colepiocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian stage) deposits of Alberta, Canada. It was collected from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian, 80-77.5 ma). The type species, C. lambei, was originally described by Sternberg (in 1945 as Stegoceras lambei), and later renamed by Sullivan in 2003. C. lambei is a domed pachycephalosaur characterized principally by the lack of a lateral and posteriosquamosal shelf, a steeply down-turned parietal, and the presence of two incipient nodes tucked under the posterior margin of the parietosquamosal border.
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