| Gargoyleosaurus | ||||
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| Name | Gargoyleosaurus | |||
| Order | Ornithischia | |||
| Suborder | Thyreophora | |||
| Class | Nodosauridae (Ankylosauria) | |||
| Name Translation | Gargoyle Lizard | |||
| Period | Late Jurassic | |||
| Location | Utah | |||
| Diet | Plants | |||
Gargoyleosaurus was a primitive Nodosaur from the Jurassic period that was about 10 feet long and probably weighed about a ton.
It lived in Canada and the United States.
Holotype[]
The holotype specimen of Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum was collected by Western Paleontology Labs in 1995 and is currently held in the collections of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado. Besides the holotype, two other partial skeletons are known (although not yet described). The holotype consists of most of the skull and a partial postcranial skeleton. The specimen was originally described as Gargoyleosaurus parkpini by Carpenter, Miles and Cloward in 1998, then renamed G. parkpinorum by Carpenter et al. in 2001, in accordance with ICZN art. 31.1.2A.
Gallery[]
Gargoyleosaurus skeleton