Micropachycephalosaurus
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Micropachycephalosaurus (meaning "small thick-headed lizard") is an extinct genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur containing only the type species, Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis. It lived in China during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) and was found in the Jiangjunding Formation.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
Genus: | †Micropachycephalosaurus Dong, 1978 |
Species: | †M. hongtuyanensis |
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†Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis Dong, 1978 | |
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Micropachycephalosaurus has the longest name of any dinosaur, with 23 letters in the genus name alone, while the full binomial contains 37 letters.[2]