Reptilia - Ornithischia - Pachycephalosauridae
Alternative combinations: Prenocephale brevis, Sphaerotholus brevis, Stegoceras breve, Stegoceras brevis, Troodon brevis
Full reference: L. M. Lambe. 1918. The Cretaceous genus Stegoceras typifying a new family referred provisionally to the Stegosauria. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 12:23-36
Belongs to Foraminacephale according to R. L. Schott and D. C. Evans 2017
See also Brown and Schlaikjer 1943, Charig 1967, Currie 2005, Eberth et al. 2001, Evans et al. 2018, Gilmore 1924, Hay 1930, Kuhn 1964, Lambe 1918, Lehman 2010, Longrich 2008, Longrich et al. 2010, Maryanska 1990, Maryanska et al. 2004, Russell 1964, Ryan and Evans 2005, Schott et al. 2009, Sternberg 1945, Sues and Galton 1987, Sullivan 2000, Sullivan 2003, Sullivan 2006, Watabe et al. 2011, Williamson and Carr 2003 and Woodruff et al. 2021
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NMC 1423. Its type locality is Berry Creek east, GSC (NMC), which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Canada.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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