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Amtocephale
Amtocephale gobiensis Watabe et al. 2011
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · 100.5–83.6 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Amtocephale gobiensis is a pachycephalosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–83.6 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Watabe et al. 2011. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Amtocephale sits in deep time
Amtocephale
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Amtocephale's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.