Genus
Valid Extinct

Gastonia

Kirkland 1998

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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Gastonia
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Gastonia burgei skeletal mount, on display at the BYU Museum of Paleontology. © Etemenanki3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Parapredentata Unranked clade
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Saphornithischia Unranked clade
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Prionodontia Unranked clade
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Genasauria Unranked clade
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Thyreophora Unranked clade
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
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Eurypoda Unranked clade
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Ankylosauria Unranked clade
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Euankylosauria Unranked clade
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Nodosauridae Family
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Gastonia Genus
Measurements
Length
4,6 m ⓘ
4,3 m ⓘ
Gastonia lorriemcwhinneyae
Mass
800 kg ⓘ
Gastonia lorriemcwhinneyae
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
3
Geological formations
Cedar Mountain
3
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Gastonia burgei 137 Ma
Gastonia lorriemcwhinneyae 121 Ma
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
J. I. Kirkland. 1998. A polacanthine ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Dinosauria) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of eastern Utah. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems (S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, & J. W. Estep, eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:271-281
Bibliography (2)
B. Kineer, K. Carpenter, and A. Shaw. 2016. Redescription of Gastonia burgei (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria, Polacanthidae), and description of a new species. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 282(1):37-80 DOI ↗
J. I. Kirkland. 1998. A polacanthine ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Dinosauria) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of eastern Utah. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems (S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, & J. W. Estep, eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:271-281