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Gargoyleosaurus

Gargoyleosaurus

Pronunciation:: gahr-goy-lee-oh-sore-us
Name meaning:: 'gargoyle lizard'

Gargoyleosaurus

© Andrey Atuchin

armoured dinosaur silhouette

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, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Ankylosauromorpha, Ankylosauria
Named by:: Carpenter, Miles and Cloward (1998)
Type species:: parkpinorum

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