Skeletal mount of Gigantspinosaurus in the Zigong Dinosaur Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Stegosauria
Genus:
†Gigantspinosaurus Ouyang, 1992
Species:
†G. sichuanensis
Binomial name
†Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis
Ouyang, 1992
Gigantspinosaurus (lit.'giant-spined lizard') is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a stegosaur found in China.
Gigantspinosaurus (lit. 'giant-spined lizard') is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a stegosaur found in China...
by Kentrosaurus and extremely developed, as its name indicates, in Gigantspinosaurus. As far as is known, all forms possessed some sort of thagomizer,...
stegosaurids is considered a secondary loss since many basal stegosaurs like Gigantspinosaurus and Huayangosaurus have been discovered with them. Stegosaurids also...
other stegosaurs, or close to the origin of the clade, with taxa like Gigantspinosaurus or Isaberrysaura outside the Stegosauridae-Huayangosauridae split...
is known to have existed on the shoulder in the Chinese stegosaurs Gigantspinosaurus and Huayangosaurus. Like the spikes and shields of ankylosaurs, the...
Tuojiangosaurus, Huayangosaurus, Chungkingosaurus, Jiangjunosaurus, and Gigantspinosaurus. When the latter two genera were removed, Paranthodon grouped with...
its shoulders, similar in relative size to the shoulder spikes of Gigantspinosaurus. The shoulder spine has a large flat trapezoidal base; after a sudden...
greater than the length). The vertebral centra of the basal stegosaur Gigantspinosaurus have large fossae (depressions), but these are not seen in Bashanosaurus...
entirely on dinosaurs in Asia. Mounted specimens include Omeisaurus, Gigantspinosaurus, Yangchuanosaurus, Huayangosaurus and Xiaosaurus. List of museums...
largest known oviraptorosaur, comparable in size to Albertosaurus Gigantspinosaurus 1992 Shaximiao Formation (Late Jurassic, Oxfordian) China Possessed...
as a basal stegosaur, either the sister taxon of Huayangosaurus or Gigantspinosaurus. The holotype specimen of Isaberrysaura has been preserved with fossilized...
dinosaur museum open in Asia. Mounted specimens include Omeisaurus, Gigantspinosaurus, Yangchuanosaurus hepingensis, Huayangosaurus and Xiaosaurus. Zigong...
smallest known stegosaurs, at just 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length. Gigantspinosaurus G. sichuanensis Mamenchisaurus assemblage, Upper Shaximiao Formation...
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