Saichania

Taxobox
name = "Saichania"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Saichania" skeleton on display at Dinosaur Kingdom, Nakasato, Japan
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Thyreophora
infraordo = Ankylosauria
familia = Ankylosauridae
genus = "Saichania"
genus_authority=Maryańska, 1977
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "S. chulsanensis" Maryańska, 1977 (type)

"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". [cite journal |last=Maryanska |first=T. |year=1977 |title=Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=37 |issue= |pages=85–151 ] 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).

References

External links

* [http://www.gondwanastudios.com/info/saic.htm "Saichania", Gondwana Studios]
* [http://www.dino-nakasato.org/en/special97/Saic-e.shtml "Saichania" at the Dinosaur Kingdom, Nakasato, Japan]