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Saichania Saichania chulsanensis Maryanska 1977
/seɪtʃˈeɪniə/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 100.5–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Mongolia
Region
Omnogov
Formation
Baruungoyot
Dig sites
3
distinct collections
Overview
Saichania chulsanensis is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Omnogov, Mongolia. It was named by Maryanska 1977. The species is represented by 5 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~18%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 5 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Saichania chulsanensis sits in deep time
Saichania
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Saichania chulsanensis's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.