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Tarchia
© Berislav Krzic
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Tarchia is known from a complete skeleton, including an armoured skull, and is the largest and most recent anylosaur. Tarchia lived in the desert.
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- Pronounced
- tahrk-ee ah
- Meaning of name
- brainy one
- Length
- 8.5m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(75 - 68 million years ago) - Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Ankylosauromorpha, Ankylosauria, Ankylosaurinae, Tarchia
- Named by
- Maleev (1956)
- Type species
- gigantea