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Gastonia
Gastonia burgei Kirkland 1998
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · 137.1–132.6 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Gastonia burgei is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 137.1–132.6 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Kirkland 1998. The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~8%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Gastonia sits in deep time
Gastonia
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Gastonia's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.