Pronunciation: GOH-yo-SEF-uh-lee
Meaning: Decorated head
Author/s: Perle
et al. (
1982)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: South Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Acta Ordinal: #295
Goyocephale lattimorei
(Lattimore's Decorated Head)Etymology
Goyocephale is derived from the Mongolian "goyo" (decorated or elegant) and the Greek "kephale" (head) referring to the many bony knobs and bumps on the rear edge of its thick skull roof.
The
species epithet,
lattimorei, is named in honour of American Orientalist Professor Owen Lattimore.
Discovery
The remains of
Goyocephale were discovered at Boro Khovil, 10 km west of Dzamyn Khond (60 km west of Bulgan Somon and south of the Arts Bogd Ull Mountain), South Gobi Desert, Mongolia, by Altangerel Perle in 1977.
The
holotype (GI SPS 100/1501) includes most of a skull with teeth, the first neck vertebrae (atlas), a block of four hip vertebrae (sacrum), 32 tail vertebrae, a pelvic bone (ilia), a partial left arm (humerus, ulna, radius, finger bones), a partial left leg (partial thigh, shin, calf, foot bones) and some unidentifiable fragments.
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Palaeontologica Polonica, 30: 45-102.
• Perle A, Maryanska T and Osmólska H (1982) "
Goyocephale lattimorei gen. et sp. n., a new flat-headed pachycephalosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia".
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 27(1-4): 115-127.
• Maryanska T (1990) "Pachycephalosauria". Page 564-577 in Weishampel, Osmolska and Dodson (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: First Edition".
• Sues H-D (1997) "Pachycephalosauria". Page 511-513 in Currie and Padian (eds.) "
Encyclopedia of dinosaurs".
• Maryanska T, Chapman RE and Weishampel DB (2004) "Pachycephalosauria". Page 464-477 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Sullivan M (2006) "A taxonomic review of the Pachycephalosauridae".
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 35: 347-366.
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