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Gargoyleosaurus
Taxonomy
Gargoyleosaurus was named by Carpenter et al. (1998). It was considered monophyletic by Vickaryous et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Polacanthinae by Blows (2001); to Polacanthidae by Carpenter (2001), Carpenter (2001), Carpenter et al. (2001), Kilbourne and Carpenter (2005) and Galton (2007); to Ankylosauria by Chure et al. (2006) and Lü et al. (2007); to Ankylosauria by Buchholz (2002) and Parsons and Parsons (2009); to Ankylosauridae by Carpenter et al. (1998), Sereno (1999), Ford (2000), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Barrett (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Vickaryous (2006), Lü et al. (2007) and Osi and Makádi (2009); and to Nodosauridae by Han et al. (2014), Blows and Honeysett (2014), Blows (2014), Arbour and Currie (2016), Yang et al. (2017) and Galton (2019).
It was assigned to Polacanthinae by Blows (2001); to Polacanthidae by Carpenter (2001), Carpenter (2001), Carpenter et al. (2001), Kilbourne and Carpenter (2005) and Galton (2007); to Ankylosauria by Chure et al. (2006) and Lü et al. (2007); to Ankylosauria by Buchholz (2002) and Parsons and Parsons (2009); to Ankylosauridae by Carpenter et al. (1998), Sereno (1999), Ford (2000), Vickaryous et al. (2001), Barrett (2001), Vickaryous et al. (2004), Vickaryous (2006), Lü et al. (2007) and Osi and Makádi (2009); and to Nodosauridae by Han et al. (2014), Blows and Honeysett (2014), Blows (2014), Arbour and Currie (2016), Yang et al. (2017) and Galton (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Gargoyleosaurus Carpenter et al. pp. 482-3 fig. 1 |
| 1999 | Gargoyleosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2000 | Gargoyleosaurus Ford p. 176 |
| 2001 | Gargoyleosaurus Barrett p. 41 |
| 2001 | Gargoyleosaurus Blows p. 376 |
| 2001 | Gargoyleosaurus Carpenter p. 170 |
| 2001 | Gargoyleosaurus Carpenter et al. p. 235 |
| 2001 | Gargoyleosaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 1774 |
| 2002 | Gargoyleosaurus Buchholz p. 18 |
| 2004 | Gargoyleosaurus Vickaryous et al. p. 364 |
| 2005 | Gargoyleosaurus Kilbourne and Carpenter p. 113 |
| 2006 | Gargoyleosaurus Chure et al. p. 237 |
| 2006 | Gargoyleosaurus Vickaryous p. 1012 |
| 2007 | Gargoyleosaurus Galton p. 19 |
| 2007 | Gargoyleosaurus Lü et al. p. 889 fig. 1 |
| 2007 | Gargoyleosaurus Lü et al. p. 349 |
| 2009 | Gargoyleosaurus Osi and Makádi p. 239 fig. 10 |
| 2009 | Gargoyleosaurus Parsons and Parsons p. 736 fig. 18 |
| 2014 | Gargoyleosaurus Blows p. 59 |
| 2014 | Gargoyleosaurus Blows and Honeysett p. 838 |
| 2014 | Gargoyleosaurus Han et al. p. 14 fig. 11 |
| 2016 | Gargoyleosaurus Arbour and Currie p. 433 fig. 11 |
| 2017 | Gargoyleosaurus Yang et al. p. 786 fig. 5 |
| 2019 | Gargoyleosaurus Galton p. 210 |
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G. †Gargoyleosaurus Carpenter et al. 1998
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†Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum Carpenter et al. 1998
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available