Gastonia
Gastonia burgei
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.
- Family
- Polacanthidae
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (124.0–115.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 4.0–7.0 m
- Weight
- 1.9 t
- Type locality
- Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA
- Holotype
- CEUM 1307g
- PBDB
- txn:63700