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Foraminacephale Foraminacephale brevis (Lambe 1918)

/fˈɔːɹɐmˌɪneɪsfˌeɪl/ estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade

Overview

Foraminacephale brevis is a pachycephalosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Lambe 1918). The species is represented by 5 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~18%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 5 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Foraminacephale brevis sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Foraminacephale
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Foraminacephale brevis's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.

predator–prey
Ichthyornis
Ichthyornis dispar
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predator–prey
Hesperornis
Hesperornis regalis
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predator–prey
Gorgosaurus
Gorgosaurus libratus
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coexisted–with
Centrosaurus
Centrosaurus apertus
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coexisted–with
Protoceratops
Protoceratops andrewsi
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coexisted–with
Hypacrosaurus
Hypacrosaurus stebingeri
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same–clade
Stegoceras
Stegoceras validum
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same–clade
Stegoceras
Stegoceras novomexicanum
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