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Gargoyleosaurus
''Gargoyleosaurus'' (meaning "gargoyle lizard") is one of the earliest ankylosaurs known from reasonably complete fossil remains. Its skull measures in length, and its total body length is an estimated . It may have weighed as much as . The holotype was discovered at the Bone Cabin Quarry West locality, in Albany County, Wyoming in exposures of the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian stages) Morrison Formation.
The type species, ''G. parkpinorum'' (originally ''G. parkpini'') was described by Ken Carpenter ''et al.'' in 1998. A mounted skeletal reconstruction of ''Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum'' can be seen at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. ''Gargoyleosaurus'' was present in stratigraphic zone 2 of the Morrison Formation.〔Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World''. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.〕
==Holotype==
The holotype specimen of ''Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum'' was collected by Western Paleontology Labs in 1996 and is currently held in the collections of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado. Besides the holotype, two other partial skeletons are known (although not yet described). The holotype consists of most of the skull and a partial postcranial skeleton. The specimen was originally described as ''Gargoyleosaurus parkpini'' by Carpenter, Miles and Cloward in 1998, then renamed ''G. parkpinorum'' by Carpenter ''et al.'' in 2001, in accordance with ICZN art. 31.1.2A.
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