What is Gastonia (dinosaur)?
{{italictitle}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Early Cretaceous]], {{Fossil range|139|125}} | image = Gastonia mount BYU 4.jpg | image_caption = Reconstructed skeleton of ''G. burgei'', [[BYU Museum of Paleontology]] | taxon = Gastonia (dinosaur) | authority = [[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|Kirkland]], 1998 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Gastonia burgei''''' | type_species_authority = [[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|Kirkland]], 1998 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = *{{extinct}}'''''G. burgei''''' <br><small>[[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|Kirkland]], 1998</small> *{{extinct}}'''''G. lorriemcwhinneyae''''' <br><small>Kinneer et al., 2016</small> }} '''''Gastonia''''' is an armoured dinosaur from the [[Lower Cretaceous]] of [[North America]]. It lived about 139 to 125 million years ago. It was a [[nodosaurid]], closely related to ''[[Polacanthus]]''. ''Gastonia'' has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes. Several examples of this [[genus]] of herbivorous [[ankylosaur]] were found in [[Utah]] in the [[Cedar Mountain]] Formation.<ref name =kirkland1998>Kirkland, J.I. (1998). A polacanthine ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Dinosauria) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of eastern Utah. In: S.G. Lucas, J.I. Kirkland, & J.W. Estep, (eds) ''Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin'' '''14''': 271-281.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Ankylosauria]]