Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Nodosauridae
- Image
- Gastonia burgei dinosaur.png
- Length
- 4.6
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- time period
- Early Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- United States
- main food source
- herbivore
- taxon name
- Gastonia
- taxon rank
- genus
- different from
- Gastonia
- Commons category
- Gastonia (dinosaur)
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Encyclopedic overview
Gastonia is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of North America, around 139 to 125.77 million years ago. It is often considered a nodosaurid closely related to Polacanthus. Gastonia has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes.
Discovery and species
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gastonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.