Gastonia (dinosaur)
genus of reptiles (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gastonia is an armoured dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. It lived about 139 to 125 million years ago.
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Type species ...
Gastonia | |
---|---|
Reconstructed skeleton of G. burgei, BYU Museum of Paleontology | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Suborder: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Polacanthinae |
Genus: | †Gastonia Kirkland, 1998 |
Type species | |
†Gastonia burgei Kirkland, 1998 | |
Species | |
|
Close
It was a nodosaurid, closely related to Polacanthus. Gastonia has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes.
Several examples of this genus of herbivorous ankylosaur were found in Utah in the Cedar Mountain Formation.[1]