Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani
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Name: Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani
Name Meaning: Man-Bull Reptile
First Described: 2009
Described By: Miles & Miles
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae, Saichania + Zaraapelta Clade
Minotaurasaurus is an Ankylosaurine that might be synonymous with Tarchia, from a place of unknown origin in the Gobi Desert. It probably lived between 75 and 70 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, like it’s close relatives. The remains are controversial - it is uncertain where they came from, and they were removed without permission or documentation. It, like other members of its clade, had a shorter, deeper snout, probably as an adaptation for eating more desert-based plantlife.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaurasaurus
Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985
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