Gargoyleosaurus
Field photograph to come
Gargoyleosaurus
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- Lived
- 152 to 145 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 4 m (13 ft)
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Nodosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carpenter et al. 1998
Field notes
About Gargoyleosaurus
Gargoyleosaurus was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic, 152 to 145 million years ago. It belongs to the family Nodosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Gargoyleosaurus, from Wyoming. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Carpenter et al. in 1998.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
To scale
How big was Gargoyleosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Nodosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Carpenter, C. Miles, and K. Cloward. 1998. Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria). Nature 393:782-783