| Gargoyleosaurus | |
|---|---|
| 👁 Image | |
| Kerangka fosil, Denver Museum of Nature and Science | |
| Klasifikasi ilmiah 👁 Sunting klasifikasi ini | |
| Kerajaan: | Animalia |
| Filum: | Chordata |
| Klad: | Dinosauria |
| Klad: | †Ornithischia |
| Klad: | †Thyreophora |
| Genus: | †Gargoyleosaurus Carpenter et al. 1998 |
| Spesies: | †G.parkpinorum |
| Nama binomial | |
| †Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum Carpenter et al. 1998 | |
Gargoyleosaurus (artinya "kadal gargoyle") adalah salah satu ankylosaurus terawal yang diketahui dari sisa fosil lengkap. Holotipe tersebut ditemukan pada 1995 di Bone Cabin Quarry West, Albany County, Wyoming dari periode Jura Akhir (sub-kala Kimmeridgian sub-kala Tithonian) di Formasi Morrison.[1]
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Carpenter, K., Miles, C. and Cloward, K. (1998). "Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria)." Nature 393: 782–783.
- Carpenter, K. (ed.) The Armored Dinosaurs. pp.454–483. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
- Vickaryous, Maryanska, and Weishampel (2004). "Ankylosauria". in The Dinosauria (2nd edition), Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H., editors. University of California Press.
- Killbourne, B. and Carpenter, K. (2005). "Redescription of Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum, a polacanthid ankylosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Albany County, Wyoming". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 237, 111–160.
- ↑ Benton, Michael J. (2012). Prehistoric Life. Edinburgh, Scotland: Dorling Kindersley. hlm.278. ISBN978-0-7566-9910-9.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Gargoyleosaurus Diarsipkan 2008-09-10 di Wayback Machine. from the Natural History Museum
