Genus

Valid Extinct

Gobisaurus

Vickaryous et al. 2001

Gobisaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. The genus is monotypic, containing only the species Gobisaurus domoculus.

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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Skeletal mount of Gobisaurus domoculus on display at the Baoding Natural History Museum. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY 4.0 · 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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Ankylosauridae Family

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Gobisaurus Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Miaogou

Haoling

Temporal distribution

Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)

Species (2)

Gobisaurus domoculus 121 Ma

Zhongyuangosaurus luoyangensis subjective synonym of Gobisaurus domoculus 121 Ma

Synonyms (1)

Zhongyuansaurus subjective synonym of Gobisaurus

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

M. K. Vickaryous, A. P. Russell, and P. J. Currie, X.-J. Zhao. 2001. A new ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with comments on ankylosaurian relationships. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38:1767-1780 DOI ↗

Bibliography (2)

L. Xu, J. Lü, and X. Zhang, S. Jia, W. Hu, J. Zhang, Y. Wu, Q. Ji. 2007. [A new nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan Province]. Acta Geologica Sinica 81(4):433-438

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