Gastonia: quick facts

Gastonia was a heavily armoured dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Utah. A nodosaurid-like ankylosaur, it was covered in protective bony plates and bore rows of large, blade-like spikes

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Reference background: Natural History Museum, London — Dinosaurs; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — Dinosaurs; American Museum of Natural History — Dinosaurs & Fossils. Figures are typical published ranges; taxonomy follows the source era and modern consensus is noted where it differs. See our sources & fact-check policy.