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Tsagantegia Tsagantegia longicranialis Tumanova 1993
/ˌsɑːɡɑːnˈteɪɡiə/
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · 100.5–83.6 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Mongolia
Region
Dornogov
Formation
Baynshire
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Tsagantegia longicranialis is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–83.6 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Dornogov, Mongolia. It was named by Tumanova 1993. 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 Tsagantegia longicranialis sits in deep time
Tsagantegia
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Tsagantegia longicranialis'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.