Tarchia kielanae
By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable
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Name: Tarchia kielanae
Name Meaning: Brainy One
First Described: 1977
Described By: Maryanska
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae, Saichania + Zaraapelta Clade
Tarchia is another of the short-snouted desert-dwelling clade of Ankylosaurines, known from the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia, living in the late Campanian age, about 75-70 million years ago. It is known from portions of the skull, as well as probably the material of Minotaurasaurus. It was probably about 4.5 meters long, though this is hard to estimate properly due to it only being known from skull parts; and it, like it’s relatives, had extensive cranial ornamentation, including an ossification next to it’s cheek horn; though it lacks the small polygonal bony plates behind its eyes found in Saichania (though Minotaurasaurus does have them, so if Minotaurasaurus is Tarchia, it has them after all). It fed on dry, tough plant material and used its deep snout to grab the plants; and lived amongst a widely diverse community of Ankylosaurines.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarchia
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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