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GASTONIA
(gas-toe-nee-ah)
meaning: "Gaston's thing"
Gastonia
Named By: James Kirkland in 1998
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 126 Ma
Location: USA, Utah - Cedar Mountain Formation
Size: 5 meters long
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Almost complete skeleton and skulls
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Ankylosauridae | Polacanthinae |
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Gastonia is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of North America, around 125 million years ago. It is often considered a nodosaurid closely related to Polacanthus. Gastonia has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes.

Read more about Gastonia at Wikipedia
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