Saichania

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iSaichania
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Thyreophora
Infraorder: Ankylosauria
Family: Ankylosauridae
Genus: Saichania
Species
  • S. chulsanensis (type)

Saichania (meaning 'beautiful one') was an ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It lived during the Campanian alongside Pinacosaurus. Saichania was about six meters long. The type species is Saichania chulsanensis.

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