Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur

Gastonia

Say it gas-toh-nee-ah. The name means ‘[Robert] Gaston’.

Gastonia beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of armoured dinosaurs

Length: 4.6 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Early Cretaceous142 to 127 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Kirkland (1998)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria

Where Gastonia sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33

Lived at the same time

Cedarpelta · same country
Utahraptor · same country
Camarasaurus · same country
Dryosaurus · same country
Gargoyleosaurus · same country
Haplocanthosaurus · same country
Hesperosaurus · same country
Marshosaurus · same country

Other armoured dinosaurs

Cedarpelta Early Cretaceous
Hylaeosaurus Early Cretaceous
Stegosaurus Late Jurassic
Dacentrurus Late Jurassic
Gargoyleosaurus Late Jurassic
Hesperosaurus Late Jurassic
Kentrosaurus Late Jurassic
Tuojiangosaurus Late Jurassic

Source: Gastonia in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.