Gastonia (Sound Effects)

Gastonia is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of North America, around 139 to 134.6 million years ago. It is often considered a nodosaurid closely related to Polacanthus. Gastonia has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes.
The type specimen of Gastonia burgei (CEUM 1307) was discovered in a bonebed from the limestone strata of the lower Cedar Mountain Formation in Yellow Cat Quarry, Grand County, eastern Utah, the type specimen consisting of a single skull.[1][2] The type specimen was found alongside 4 partial skeletons of Gastonia that were placed as paratypes, along with the type specimen of Utahraptor and an iguanodontid.[1][2] Gastonia is among the most common dinosaur fossils in the Cedar Mountain Formation, with many individuals being found across several quarries in the southwest.[1][2] In 2004, the number of skulls was reported as four,[3] in 2014 this had risen to ten.[4] Gastonia was formally named and described by James Kirkland in 1998, from the holotype specimen and other fossil material recovered beginning in 1989.[2] The name Gastonia honors US palaeontologist and CEO of Gaston Design Inc. Robert Gaston. The species G. burgei was named for the director of the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, Donald L. Burge.
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