- Type of dinosaur:
- armoured dinosaur
- Length:
- 4.0m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Jurassic, 154-142 million years ago
- Found in:
- USA
Gargoyleosaurus is known from a skull and partial postcranium, which was found partially articulated (the bones were joined as they would have been when the dinosaur was alive).
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria
- Named by:
- Carpenter, Miles and Cloward (1998)
- Type species:
- parkpinorum
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