Gargoyleosaurus (meaning "gargoyle lizard") is one of the earliest ankylosaurs known from reasonably complete fossil remains. The holotype was discovered in 1995 at the Bone Cabin Quarry West locality, in Albany County, Wyoming in exposures of the Upper Jurassic ( Kimmeridgian to Tithonian stages ) Morrison Formation .

2023年8月8日 · Gargoyleosaurus, or “gargoyle lizard,” gets its name from the gargoyle-like appearance of its skull. The name is a fitting tribute to the dinosaur’s unique physical characteristics, which include a heavily armored body and a long, narrow beak.

2023年2月15日 · Gargoyleosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Jurassic period, approximately 154 to 144 million years ago. The name Gargoyleosaurus is derived from the gargoyle-like appearance of its skull and the Greek word sauros, meaning lizard.

Gargoyleosaurus ("gargoyle lizard") was an armoured ankylosaur which walked on four legs and had a stiff tail. It had a series of spikes running along each side of its body. Gargoyleosaurus was about 10 feet (3 m) long and was roughly 3.3 feet (1 m) tall to the top of the shoulder it may have weighed about a ton.

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). Explore Gargoyleosaurus, a plant-eating armoured dinosaur in the Dino Directory.

For the October edition of Mesozoic Monthly, I’ll be ‘unmasking’ a dinosaur with a monstrous name: Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum, an armored dinosaur from the Jurassic Period! Handy infographic of the ankylosaur Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum showing its appearance, size, geographic and temporal occurrence, and more.

2021年8月25日 · Gargoyleosaurus was a nodosaurid, and it’s classified as a member of the nodosaur sub-family Polacanthinae, which includes animals such as Polacanthus of England and Gastonia of the United States. Gargoyleosaurus is noteworthy because it still has teeth

2015年11月15日 · After Mymoorapelta in‭ ‬1994,‭ ‬Gargoyleosaurus was the second ankylosaur to be named from the Morrison Formation.‭ ‬Specifically Gargoyleosaurus is a polacanthine dinosaur and had an arrangement of bony armour and spikes across its back and sides.‭ ‬ Gargoyleosaurus also had a large bony plate that covered its hips from above.‭ ‬This armour was...

Gargoyleosaurus means lizard – gargoyle (a gargoyle is often used as a decorative end of a gutter presented mostly as the head of a dragon). This ankylosaurid dinosaur from Late Jurassic of the U.S.A. had a fully armored body.

Gargoyleosaurus (pronounced gar-GOYL-e-o-SAWR-us) was a small armored dinosaur (a primitive and early ankylosaur) that walked on four legs and had a stiff tail. This plant-eater had protective body armor on the upper surface of its body and tail (hollow bony oval plates).