Here are the facts that we know about Micropachycephalosaurus:

• It’s name means a “small thick headed lizard.”
• It’s a herbivore & it lived during the Late Cretaceous Period and it’s a possibility that it lived in a forest.
• It has the longest name among the dinosaurs but it’s one of the smallest dinosaurs.
• It’s 3 feet long and less than 10 pounds.

• It’s fossils was found at Laiyang, Shandong Province in China.
• Dong Zhiming, the paleontologist that found the incomplete fossils of this dinosaur classified it among the Pachysephalosauria family because of it’s dome-headed thick skull. Later on, it was re-evaluated by Butler & Zhao, another team of Paleontologist but the skull was missing. They classify it among the Suborder, Ceratopsia instead.

 

Credits:

Book: Catherine D. Hughes, Author. Franco Tempesta, Illustrator.  National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs. 2011, National Geographic Society.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropachycephalosaurus

Artwork: H. Kyoht Luterman. http://kyoht.com/