The largest well-known dome-headed dinosaur, from the latest Cretaceous of the western United States. Adult skulls carry a massive rounded dome and a fringe of blunt nodes, but much of the body remains reconstructed from incomplete skeletons and close relatives.
clade · 22 represented species
Marginocephalia
Marginocephalia unites pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians, ornithischians characterized by specialized bone along the rear margin of the skull.
2Direct child groups
4Countries represented
161–66 MaDataset range
Definition
Characteristics and significance
The lineage produced two contrasting forms of cranial elaboration: thickened skull roofs and expanded frills with horns.
- Bony shelf or thickening at the rear of the skull
- Beaked, herbivorous jaws
Name meaning: Fringed heads
Branch structure
Direct branches in this dataset
Representative taxa
Dinosaurs in this branch
herbivore~4.5 m
Distribution
Geographic record
United States · Mongolia · Canada · China
Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.
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