Gigantspinosaurus
Gigantspinosaurus was a medium-sized stegosaur, a plated dinosaur that walked on four legs and ate plants. It had a huge pair of comma-shaped spines on its shoulders, and its fossils even preserved the first skin impressions ever found for a stegosaur.1
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Gigantspinosaurus means 'giant spine lizard,' named for the huge comma-shaped spines on its shoulder blades.1
Its fossils include the first skin impressions ever found for any stegosaur, showing what its skin looked like.1
It lived about 168 to 161 million years ago, during the Middle to Late Jurassic.2
Gigantspinosaurus was a medium-sized stegosaur, bigger than the early Huayangosaurus but smaller than later stegosaurs like Tuojiangosaurus.1
The only known skeleton is almost complete, including a pair of lower jaws, neck and back bones, and a fused hip bone.6
Scientists think it was an adult because its teeth were worn down from chewing tough plants.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Gigantspinosaurus
?How big was Gigantspinosaurus?
About 4.2 to 7 metres (14 to 23 ft) long and around 700 kilograms (1,500 lb) in weight.3
?What did Gigantspinosaurus eat?
It ate plants. Its teeth were small and leaf-shaped, and the wear on them suggests it chewed tough plants.34
?Why did Gigantspinosaurus have shoulder spines?
Scientists are not sure. The huge comma-shaped spines were probably for defence or display, but no source gives a definite answer.35
?When did Gigantspinosaurus live?
It lived during the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, in what is now China.34
?Was Gigantspinosaurus a dinosaur?
Yes, it was a stegosaur, a type of plated dinosaur that walked on four legs.3
?Did Gigantspinosaurus have feathers?
No, it had skin with scales. Its fossils preserved skin impressions showing rosettes of scales, not feathers.3
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Gigantspinosaurus
- Bautizado por
- Ouyang 19926
- Grupo
- Dinos con placas
- Familia / clado
- Huayangosauridae6
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia > Stegosauria > Thyreophora6
- Idade das rochas
- de 168 a 162 millóns de anos (Bathonian / Callovian)6
- Formacións rochosas
- Shaximiao6
- Países
- China6
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database6
- Descubrimento
- Gigantspinosaurus was first named in 1992 by Chinese paleontologist Ouyang in a lecture abstract, but it was not fully described until a 2018 study by Baoqiao Hao and colleagues.21
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists still debate exactly where Gigantspinosaurus fits in the stegosaur family tree. Some place it in Huayangosaurinae, others in Stegosauridae.21
De onde veñen os datos
- Redescription of Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Sichuan, Southwestern China (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Gigantspinosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Redescription of Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Sichuan, Southwestern China (zdm.cn)
- G is for Gigantspinosaurus (smithsonianmag.com)
- Gigantspinosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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