Gastonia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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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 |
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†Gastonia burgei Kirkland, 1998
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Gastonia is an armoured dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. It lived about 139 to 125 million years ago.
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]