Diagram of the holotype skull in dorsal and ventral views
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
†Ornithischia
Clade:
†Thyreophora
Clade:
†Ankylosauria
Family:
†Ankylosauridae
Subfamily:
†Ankylosaurinae
Genus:
†Tsagantegia Tumanova, 1993
Type species
†Tsagantegia longicranialis
Tumanova, 1993
Tsagantegia (/ˌsɑːɡɑːnˈteɪɡiə/; meaning Tsagan Teg) is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaurid thyreophoran dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. The genus is monotypic, including only the type species, T. longicranialis. The specimen consists of a very partial individual, comprising the skull and lacking postcranial remains. Since it only preserves the skull, Tsagantegia is mainly characterized by its elongated snout and the flattened facial osteoderms, greatly differing from other ankylosaurs.
Tsagantegia (/ˌsɑːɡɑːnˈteɪɡiə/; meaning Tsagan Teg) is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaurid thyreophoran dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous...
from the Bayan Shireh Formation, being likely niche partitioned with Tsagantegia, as indicated by its muzzle, which has a rectangular shape specialized...
and possibly Alectrosaurus; the heavy-built ankylosaurs Talarurus and Tsagantegia; the small marginocephalians Amtocephale and Graciliceratops; the hadrosauroid...
Garudimimus or Segnosaurus. Ankylosaurs were represented by Talarurus and Tsagantegia, other herbivorous dinosaurs include Graciliceratops, Gobihadros and...
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