Tarchia was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited Asia. Its fossils have been found in places such as Ömnögovi (Mongolia).
Quick facts about Tarchia:
- Existed from Campanian Age to Maastrichtian Age
- Lived in a terrestrial habitat
- Was a herbivore
- Reproduced by laying eggs
- 9 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Tarchia was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- J.-Y. Park, Y.-N. Lee, and Y. Kobayashi, L. L. Jacobs, R. Barsbold, H.-J. Lee, N. Kim, K.-Y. Song, 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
- R. Gradzinski, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and T. Maryanska. 1977. Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, including remarks on previous subdivisions. Acta Geologica Polonica 27(3):281-318
- W. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:30-44
