Gargoyleosaurus
Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum
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.
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.
- Family
- Ankylosauridae
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Period
- Jurassic (155.0–150.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 3.0–4.0 m
- Weight
- 300–500 kg
- Type locality
- Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA
- Holotype
- TATE-001
- PBDB
- txn:63703