The dinosaur with the longest name is Micropachycephalosaurus which means “tiny, thick-headed lizard.” It was also one of the smallest (around 20 inches) that probably weighed as much as a house cat. The skeleton of the single region specimen was found on a cliff in Shadong Province of China in 1978.
Well, because this dinosaur has been reconstructed from a single, incomplete fossil discovered in China (by the famous paleontologist Dong Zhiming), the possibility looms that it may one day be “downgraded”–that is, paleontologists will agree that it’s another type of pachycephalosaur entirely. (The skulls of pachycephalosaurs changed as these dinosaurs aged, meaning that a juvenile of a given genus is often incorrectly assigned to a new genus). If Micropachycephalosaurus winds up losing its place in the dinosaur record books, some other multisyllabic dinosaur (possibly Opisthocoelicaudia) will rise up to assume the “world’s longest name” title.
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