Tarchia tumanovae Park et al. 2021 (ankylosaurid)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae

Full reference: J.-Y. Park, Y.-N. Lee, Y. Kobayashi, L. L. Jacobs, R. Barsbold, H.-J. Lee, N. Kim, K.-Y. Song, and M. J. Polcyn. 2021. A new ankylosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia and implications for paleoecology of armoured dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 11:22928

Belongs to Tarchia according to J.-Y. Park et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Tarchia kielanae, Tarchia teresae

Type specimen: MPC-D 100/1353, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Hermiin Tsav (KID) [Nemegt Fm.], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Hermiin Tsav (KID) [Nemegt Fm.]

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