Tsagantegia

Pronunciation:
tsah-gahn-tay-gee-a
Name meaning:
'Tsagan Teg'
Type of dinosaur:
armoured dinosaur
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 99-84 million years ago
Found in:
Mongolia

Only the skull of Tsagantegia has been found, so the rest is guesswork based on similar dinosaurs.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae
Named by:
Tumanova (1993)
Type species:
longicranialis

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