Genus

Valid Extinct

Gargoyleosaurus

Carpenter et al. 1998

Gargoyleosaurus is one of the earliest ankylosaurs known from reasonably complete fossil remains. The holotype was discovered in 1995 at the Bone Cabin Quarry West locality, in Albany County, Wyoming in exposures of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Fossil skeleton of Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum taken in 2007 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. © Firsfron · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Ornithischia Unranked clade

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Parapredentata Unranked clade

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Saphornithischia Unranked clade

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Prionodontia Unranked clade

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Genasauria Unranked clade

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Thyreophora Unranked clade

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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily

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Eurypoda Unranked clade

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Ankylosauria Unranked clade

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Euankylosauria Unranked clade

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Nodosauridae Family

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Gargoyleosaurus Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇺🇸 United States

Geological formations

Morrison

Temporal distribution

Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)

Species (1)

Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum 152 Ma

Images 2

Bibliography

Original description

K. Carpenter, C. Miles, and K. Cloward. 1998. Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria). Nature 393:782-783 DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)

K. Carpenter, C. Miles, and K. Cloward. 1998. Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria). Nature 393:782-783 DOI ↗