#Tylocephale gilmorei

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#Archovember Day 25 - Tylocephale gilmorei

The pachycephalosaurids are famous for their thick, armoured heads, but one dome rose above the rest. Living in Late Cretaceous Mongolia, Tylocephale gilmorei, while a medium-sized pachycephalosaur, had the tallest known dome head comparable to body size. This dome could sustain higher forces of impact than other pachycephalosaurids. Like other pachycephalosaurs it likely ate plants and insects, though it had serrations on its teeth that may have allowed it to eat tougher materials like seeds and nuts.

Tylocephale lived in an arid alluvial plain. It lived alongside a variety of other dinosaurs in the Barun Goyot Formation including ankylosaurs like Saichania, Tarchia, and Zaraapelta, protoceratopsids like Bagaceratops and Breviceratops, the titanosaur Quaesitosaurus, dromaeosaurs like Kuru and Shri, halszkaraptorines like Hulsanpes, oviraptorids like Conchoraptor, Heyuannia, and Nemegtomaia, alvarezsaurids like Khulsanurus and Parvicursor, and birds like Gobipipus, Gobipteryx, and Hollanda.

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Day 25: Tylocephale gilmorei

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Tylocephale gilmorei

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart​

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Name: Tylocephale gilmorei

Name Meaning: Swollen Head

First Described: 1974

Described By: Maryańska & Osmólska 

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Pachycephalosauria, Pachycephalosauridae

Tylocephale is a poorly known Pachycephalosaurid from the Khulsan region in Mongolia, dating back to the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, some time between 80 and 70 million years ago. It was small, about 1.4 meters long, with the tallest dome known in any Chunkie. It was very similar to Prenocephale. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylocephale

Shout out goes to @cal-cats!

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Whelp we’ve got about a week and a half til November (aaaaaah), so I guess I’ll post this year’s Archovember list now!

It’s a bit dinosaur-heavy this time, but there are a lot of species I’d really like to try my hand at! Also, we have two leptoceratopsians and two Araripesuchus species. I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast these species within the same month, so I hope it doesn’t get /too/ repetitive!

For new folks: this is my “Draw Dinovember” list that I expanded out to include other archosauriforms. I started doing this a few years ago to challenge myself to draw species I’ve never drawn before and/or ones that don’t get a lot of attention. Feel free to join in! You can do the whole list, just the dinosaurs, just the pterosaurs, just the pseudosuchians, just your favorites, just ones you’ve never drawn before, roll a D20 and a D10 and draw the sum of whichever numbers you get, etc. Just make sure they’re posted on or after their specific day so I remember to share them on my blog! You can use #Archovember or #Archovember2023, as those are the tags I follow. (Note that I and the whole Archovember event are usually a lot more active on Instagram so if you have an IG I encourage you to join in there!)

Anyway, here is the list in case the graphic is hard to read:

1. Your Choice!

2. Furcatoceratops elucidans

3. Tupandactylus navigans

4. Deinosuchus hatcheri

5. Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis

6. Lewisuchus admixtus

7. Supersaurus vivianae

8. Zhejiangopterus linhaiensis

9. Dynamosuchus collisensis

10. Megalosaurus bucklandii

11. Macrospondylus bollensis

12. Miragaia longicollum

13. Dorygnathus banthensis

14. Leptoceratops gracilis

15. Stagonolepis robertsoni

16. Shantungosaurus giganteus

17. Paleorhinus bransoni

18. Cascocauda rong

19. Kelenken guillermoi

20. Prestosuchus chiniquensis

21. Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis

22. Istiodactylus latidens

23. Kunbarrasaurus ieversi

24. Araripesuchus wegeneri

25. Tylocephale gilmorei

26. Ixalerpeton polesinensis

27. Udanoceratops tschizhovi

28. Tapejara wellnhoferi

29. Araripesuchus rattoides

30. Scutellosaurus lawleri

One last note, and a warning I usually issue to new paleoartists: while looking for references for these species you’ll come across David Peters. His references tend to dominate search results when looking for less well-known species. They are also highly inaccurate, even the skeletals. So make sure you omit “The Pterosaur Heresies” and “Reptile Evolution” from your google search. If you have issues finding references, let me know and I can share what I’m using!