Texacephale
Texacephale is a pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils come from the Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, in Texas, and were described in 2010 by Longrich, Sankey and Tanke. The generic name means Texas + "head" (kephale in Greek) in reference to its place of discovery, and the specific name honors Wann Langston.
| Texacephale Temporal range: Late Campanian, | |
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| Holotype frontoparietal dome from the Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Pachycephalosauria |
| Family: | †Pachycephalosauridae |
| Genus: | †Texacephale Longrich, Sankey & Tanke, 2010 |
| Species: | †T. langstoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Texacephale langstoni Longrich et al., 2010 | |
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