Saichania
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| Saichania Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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 Saichania skeleton on display at Dinosaur Kingdom, Nakasato, Japan
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Saichania (Mongolian meaning 'beautiful one') is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It was found in the Barun Goyot Formation at Khulsan in the Nemegt Basin, southern Mongolia. It lived during the Campanian alongside Pinacosaurus. Saichania was about six meters long. The type species is Saichania chulsanensis.
Saichania was described by Teresa Maryańska in 1977, along with Tarchia kielanae.[1] The type specimen of S. chulsanensis consists of a skull and the anterior part of the postcranial skeleton (neck and back vertebrae, shoulder girdle, forelimb, and some armour in life position). Referred specimens include a fragmentary skull roof and associated armour, and an undescribed, almost complete skeleton with skull (see picture).
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- ^ Maryanska, T. (1977). "Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia". Palaeontologia Polonica 37: 85–151.
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