Gastonia (dinosaur)
Ankylosaurian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gastonia is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of North America, around 139 to 134.6 million years ago. It is often considered a nodosaurid closely related to Polacanthus. Gastonia has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes.
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Reconstructed skeleton of G. burgei, BYU Museum of Paleontology | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Polacanthinae |
Genus: | †Gastonia Kirkland, 1998 |
Type species | |
†Gastonia burgei Kirkland, 1998 | |
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