page_title: Prenocephale
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Prenocephale / Classification
caption_attribution_description: A cast of a fossilized Prenocephale prenes skull (view from front), exhibited at the temporary Howard st. location of the en:California Academy of Sciences. From display: Prenocephale prenses skull; Late Cretaceous (99.6-66.5 Million years ago); Gobi Dessert, Mongolia; American Museum of Natural History FR 30606 (cast)
context_page_description: Prenocephale was a small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale, which may simply represent Prenocephale juveniles.
context_section_description: Prenocephale is a member of the Pachycephalosauria, a large clade of herbivorous/omnivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.
  Robert Sullivan considered Foraminacephale, "Prenocephale" edmontonensis, and Sphaerotholus goodwini to form a clade with the Asian taxon P. prenes. He considered Tylocephale the sister taxon to the Prenocephale clade, while sinking Sphaerotholus buchholtzae as a subjective junior synonym of "P." edmontonensis. They all possess a distinct row of nodes on the squamosal and parietal areas of the skull roof.
  Below is a cladogram modified from Evans et al., 2013.
caption: Front view of skull
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