Fossil skeleton, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Ankylosauria
Family:
†Nodosauridae
Genus:
†Gargoyleosaurus Carpenter et al. 1998
Species:
†G. parkpinorum
Binomial name
†Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum
Carpenter et al. 1998
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.[1]
The type species, G. parkpinorum (originally G. parkpini) was described by Ken Carpenter et al. in 1998. A mounted skeletal reconstruction of Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum can be seen at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and, alongside a couple skeletons of baby Stegosaurus, has been on display there since around 2002. Gargoyleosaurus was present in stratigraphic zone 2 of the Morrison Formation.[2]
^Benton, Michael J. (2012). Prehistoric Life. Edinburgh, Scotland: Dorling Kindersley. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-7566-9910-9.
^Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327–329.
since around 2002. Gargoyleosaurus was present in stratigraphic zone 2 of the Morrison Formation. The holotype specimen of Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum was...
phylogeny of Ankylosauridae. In a study done in 2004 by Vickaryous et al., Gargoyleosaurus, Gastonia, and Minmi were recorded as basal ankylosaurids, with the...
North America and Europe Kentrosaurus, a thyreophoran from Africa Gargoyleosaurus, a thyreophoran from North America Dryosaurus, a North American ornithopod...
From top left to right: Liaoningosaurus, Edmontonia, Tianzhenosaurus, Gargoyleosaurus, Scolosaurus, Denversaurus, Gastonia, Borealopelta and Akainacephalus...
Late Jurassic–Late Cretaceous, 155–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Gargoyleosaurus skeleton cast Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom:...
Carpenter, K.; DiCroce, T.; Kinneer, B.; Simon, R. (2013). "Pelvis of Gargoyleosaurus (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) and the Origin and Evolution of the Ankylosaur...
Camarasaurus, and Barosaurus. Other ornithischians included Camptosaurus, Gargoyleosaurus, Dryosaurus, and Nanosaurus. Stegosaurus is commonly found at the same...
as Polacanthidae incertae sedis based on the similarities between Gargoyleosaurus and Gastonia in osteoderm morphology. Suberbiola et al. (2005) were...
Carpenter K., DiCroce T., Kinneer B., Simon R., 2013, "Pelvis of Gargoyleosaurus (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) and the Origin and Evolution of the Ankylosaur...
were unknown in the formation until the 1990s. Two have been named: Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum and Mymoorapelta maysi. Ornithopods, bipedal herbivores...
slightly older Hesperosaurus, and the early ankylosaurs, Mymoorapelta and Gargoyleosaurus, most notably a very broad range of sauropods (the giants of the Mesozoic...
the herbivorous ornithischians Camptosaurus, Dryosaurus, Othnielia, Gargoyleosaurus and Stegosaurus. Allosaurus accounted for 70 to 75 percent of theropod...
present. Premaxillary teeth are also seen in some basal nodosaurids and Gargoyleosaurus. There are only approximately 10 maxillary teeth, which has been suggested...
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