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Saichania (Mongolian
meaning "beautiful one") is a
genus of
herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous period of Mongolia. The
first fossils...
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reference to a
brain size
presumed larger than that of the
related form
Saichania. The
specific name
honours Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, the leader...
- in the clade, such as Ankylosaurus, Pinacosaurus, Euoplocephalus, and
Saichania.
Ankylosaurinae is
formally defined in the
PhyloCode as "the
largest clade...
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preying on
other large dinosaurs, like ankylosaurids, such as
Tarchia and
Saichania, hadrosaurids, such as
Saurolophus and Barsboldia, and sauropods, such...
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often use
Mongolian words, e.g.
Tarchia from tarkhi,
meaning "brain", or
Saichania meaning "beautiful one".
Names of
people (often
naturalists or biologists)...
- have
suggested that
Tianzhenosaurus may
represent a
junior synonym of
Saichania, an
ankylosaurine from the
Barun Goyot and
Nemegt formations. In 1983...
- a
postcranial skeleton erroneously described in 2011 as
belonging to
Saichania. At
another site, Alag Teeg now
considered part of the
Alagteeg Formation...
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predicting good
fortunes or
likely bad outcomes. He
controls Tank, a
Saichania. The
series was
adapted into an
anime television series,
Ancient Ruler...
- Flattened,
pointed plates resemble those on the
sides of the tail of
Saichania, and may have been
distributed similarly on Ankylosaurus.
Osteoderms with...
- osteoderms,
unlike the
presence of a
single osteoderm as in
Tarchia and
Saichania. An
overall small skull that is broad. A more
horizontal pterygoid body...
