恐龍卡第 0746 張，共 2 027 張

Goyocephale

名字的意思： “decorated head”1

吃：植物腫頭龍類白堊紀晚期

Goyocephale was a small, plant-eating dinosaur with a flat, bumpy skull. It lived in what is now Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76 million years ago. This dinosaur was a primitive cousin of the dome-headed pachycephalosaurs.1 4

生存年代

86 到 66 百萬年前4

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Boro Khovil, Gobi Desert, Mongolia4 2

長度

0.6 到 2 m (2 到 6.6 ft)2 3

最高速度

時速約 44 公里（27 英里）

跑步, 估計值

牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 4 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 11 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長能在 8.2 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Goyocephale 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡算算數學。什麼都不會被儲存或傳送出去。

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Goyocephale 時速約 44 公里 (27 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

酷東西

趣味知識

Goyocephale had a flat skull roof, unlike the domed heads of later pachycephalosaurs like Pachycephalosaurus.1

Its name comes from the Mongolian word 'goyo' meaning 'decorated' and the Greek 'kephale' for 'head', referring to the bumpy ornamentation on its skull.1

Goyocephale had sharp, fang-like teeth at the front of its upper jaw, followed by a gap and then smaller cheek teeth.1

The back edge of its skull roof had many small bony bumps that would have been the base of little horns in life.1

Goyocephale is known from a single partial skeleton that includes most of the skull, parts of the forelimb and hindlimb, and some vertebrae.1

Scientists think Goyocephale was more primitive than its close relative Homalocephale because it had a shorter sacrum (hip bone) and larger skull openings.2

Goyocephale 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Goyocephale 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

你們都在問

關於 Goyocephale 最常被問的問題

?How big was Goyocephale?

Goyocephale was a small dinosaur, about 60 to 150 centimetres (2 to 5 feet) long from head to tail.2

?What did Goyocephale eat?

Goyocephale was a plant-eater (herbivore). It had sharp, fang-like teeth at the front of its mouth and smaller cheek teeth for chewing plants.1 3

?When did Goyocephale live?

Goyocephale lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76 million years ago.1 3

?Where was Goyocephale found?

Goyocephale was discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, at a place called Boro Khovil.1 2

迷思破解王

迷思： All pachycephalosaurs had thick, domed skulls for head-butting.

真相： Goyocephale had a flat skull roof, not a dome. It belonged to a group of flat-headed pachycephalosaurs called Homalocephalidae.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Goyocephale
命名者: Perle et al. 19824
類群: 腫頭龍類
科 / 演化支: Pachycephalosauria4
分類: Ornithischia > Pachycephalosauria4
岩石的年代: 86 到 66 百萬年 (Santonian / Maastrichtian)4
國家: 蒙古4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: Goyocephale was named in 1982 by Altangerel Perle, Teresa Maryańska, and Halszka Osmólska based on a skeleton found at Boro Khovil in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The species name honors American scholar Owen Lattimore.1 2
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure exactly how old the rocks at Boro Khovil are, so the precise age of Goyocephale is still debated.2