Gargoyleosaurus

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Gargoyleosaurus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals, dinosaurs

Date Released: Dec 19 2008

Current GargoyleosaurusMD_2008.ztd dated 12 December 2008

File Size: 2mb

Compatibility: DD and CC

Description: Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum ("gargoyle lizard") is both the smallest and the earliest known ankylosaur.
Its skull measures only 29 cm in length, and its total body length is an estimated three to four meters. It may have weighed as much as a tonne. 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 next earliest known ankylosaur is Minmi paravertebrata from the Aptian stage in Queensland, Australia. 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.

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.

Much of the skull and skeleton has been recovered, and the taxon displays cranial sculpturing, including pronounced deltoid quadratojugal and squamosal bosses. The taxon is further characterized by a narrow rostrum (in dorsal view), the presence of seven conical teeth in each premaxilla, an incomplete osseous nasal septum, a linerarly arranged nasal cavity, the absence of an osseus secondary palate, and, as regards osteoderms, two sets of co-ossified cervical plates and a number of elongate conical spines.

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Gargoyleosaurus

Its skull measures only 29 cm in length, and its total body length is an
estimated three to four meters. It may have weighed as much as a tonne. 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.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Savannah; Location: North America; Era: Jurassic
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 97.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (8) is not 0 to 5.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Acacia Caffra Tree, Thorn Acacia Tree, Hard Quandong Tree, Red Gum Tree
Thorn Bush, Yellow Fever Tree, Umbrella Thorn Tree, Tall Grass, Grass Tree
Sigillaria Tree (DD), Senegal Date Palm (ES)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Large Rock - 1, Large Rock - 2, Large Rock - 3, Large Rock - 4
Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small, Medium Savannah Rock (DD)
Termite Mound (ES)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 3-10 with 40 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 3 adults): 120 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
96 Savannah Grass, 6 Sand, 6 Dirt, 12 Fresh Water

Foliage (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
6 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Sigillaria Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 6 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
5 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.