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Gargoyleosaurus
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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).
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- Pronounced
- gahr-goy-lee-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- gargoyle lizard
- Length
- 4m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Jurassic
(154 - 142 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Ankylosauromorpha, Ankylosauria, Gargoyleosaurus
- Named by
- Carpenter, Miles and Cloward (1998)
- Type species
- parkpinorum