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Tarchia Tarchia kielanae Maryanska 1977
/tˈɑːɹkiə/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 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
1
distinct collections
Overview
Tarchia kielanae is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 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 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Tarchia kielanae sits in deep time
Tarchia
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Tarchia kielanae'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.