Pronunciation: fur-GAN-no-SEF-uh-lee
Meaning: Fergana head
Author/s: Averianov et al. (2005)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan
Discovery Chart Position: #561
Ferganocephale adenticulatum
(Fergana Head, Without Tooth Serrations)Etymology
Ferganocephale is derived from "Fergana" (for Fergana Valley, where it was found) and the Greek "cephale" (head). Cephale is a common suffix for pachycephalosaurids, the dinosaurs known colloquially as "head bangers" because of their thickened skull domes, and Ferganocephale was initially thought to be
one.The species epithet, adenticulatum, means "without tooth serrations" in Greek.
Discovery
The remains of Ferganocephale were discovered in the Balabansai Formation (Balabansai Svita) at Sarykamyshsay, near Tashkumyr in Fergana Valley, Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan, during a joint project of the Institut für Geologische
Wissenschaften, Fachrichtung Paläontologie, Freie
Universität, Berlin, the Zoological Institute of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and the Institute of
Geology of the National Academy of Science in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in 2001.
The holotype (ZIN PH 34/42) is an unworn tooth from site FTA-30.
Worn teeth have also been referred here:
ZIN PH 5/42 (a possible juvenile tooth), and ZIN PH 4/30, 4/31, 4/32, 4/33, 4/42 (five adult teeth) from the holotype site. ZIN PH 4/42 was actually discovered by Lev Nessov in 1992, but he had assigned it to a stegosaur, according to his original field label.
ZIN PH 35/42 (a heavily worn adult tooth) from site FTA-31.
ZIN PH 36/42 (an adult tooth) from site FBX-23 on the right bank of the Naryn River.
