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Gigantspinosaurus âśť

Description

Gigantspinosaurus (meaning "giant-spined lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a stegosaur found in China.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantspinosaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)6141929https://www.gbif.org/species/6141929
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)89460https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=89460
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Stegosauridae : Gigantspinosaurus
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Stegosauridae : Gigantspinosaurus
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Ornithischia
-GenasauriaSereno 1986
-Thyreophora
-Stegosauria
familyStegosauridaeMarsh 1880
subfamilyHuayangosaurinaeDong et al. 1982
genusGigantspinosaurusOuyang 1992
Scientific NameGigantspinosaurus Ouyang, 1992
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Gigantspinosaurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauriastated without evidenceMaidment and Wei, 2006
Gigantspinosaurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauriastated with evidenceMaidment et al., 2008
Gigantspinosaurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated without evidenceUlansky, 2014
Gigantspinosaurusgenusbelongs to Stegosauridaestated with evidenceUlansky, 2015
Gigantspinosaurusgenusbelongs to Huayangosaurinaestated with evidenceHao et al., 2018
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Ornithischia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Dietherbivore (based on Ornithischia)
Reproductionoviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Ontogenyaccretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)
Primary Reference (PBDB)S. C. R. Maidment and G. Wei. 2006. A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China. Geological Magazine 143(5):621-634
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantspinosaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis âśť
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1164 Ma
Middle Jurassic		164 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1992Gigantspinosaurus Ouyang
2006Gigantspinosaurus Maidment and Wei p. 628
2008Gigantspinosaurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11
2009Gigantspinosaurus Mateus et al.
2014Gigantspinosaurus Ulansky p. 5
2015Gigantspinosaurus Ulansky p. 5–6
2018Gigantspinosaurus Hao et al. p. 432

References

Maidment S. C. R., Wei G. (2006) A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China, Geological Magazine 143 5, 621-634
Maidment S. C. R., Norman D. B., et al (2008) Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 4, 367-407 doi:10.1017/S1477201908002459
Mateus O., Maidment S. C. R., et al (2009) A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, 1815-1821 doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1909
Ulansky R. E. (2014) Dinosaurs classification. Basal Thyreophora & Stegosauria, Dinologia, 1-8
Ulansky R. E. (2015) Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis i Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis, primitivnyye yurskiye stegozavry iz Kitaya [Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis and Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis, primitive Jurassic stegosaurs from China], Dinologia, 1-11
Hao B., Zhang Q., et al (2018) Redescription of Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Sichuan, southwestern China, Acta Geologica Sinica 92 2, 431-441
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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