Tsagantegia
Field photograph to come
Tsagantegia
DV-0361 · type species Tsagantegia longicranialis
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Tumanova 1993
Field notes
About Tsagantegia
Tsagantegia was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ankylosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Tsagantegia, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baynshire Formation. It was named by Tumanova in 1993.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. A. Tumanova. 1993. O novom pantsirnov dinozavre iz iugo-vostochnoy Gobi [A new armored dinosaur from Southeastern Gobi]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1993(2):92-98