HOMALOCEPHALE
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| A group of dinosaurs called the pachycephalosaurs developed domed or thickened skull bones. The purpose of this adaptation is not clear, but there were several species of these bone-headed dinosaurs living in the late cretaceous. One of these was HOMALOCEPHALE, a small, flat-headed pachycephalosaur. This herbivore had a stiffened tail to help keep it balanced when it walked, and bony knobs on its skull. A nearly complete skeleton was found in Mongolia in 1901, but the behavior of this dinosaur cannot be determined as there has not been a discovery of a group bone bed or an egg site.
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STATS
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| ORDER |
Ornithischia |
| SUBORDER |
Pachycephalosauria |
| FAMILY |
Homalocephalidae |
| DIET |
Herbivorous |
| SIZE |
10 feet long |
| PERIOD |
Late Cretaceous |
| RANGE |
Mongolia |
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Copyright ©2000 Neil Riehle
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