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TSAGANTEGIA
(sar-gan-te-ge-ah)
meaning: "of Tsagen-Teg/of White Mountain"
Named By: T. A. Tumanova in 1993
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 90 Ma
Location: Mongolia, Bayan Shireh Formation
Size: Skull about 30 centimetres long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Ankylosauridae |
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Tsagantegia (meaning "of Tsagan-Teg"; Tumanova, 1993) is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Mongolia, during the Cenomanian stage.

The holotype specimen (GI SPS N 700/17), a complete skull, was recovered from the Bayan Shireh Formation (Cenomanian-Santonian), at the Tsagan-Teg ("White Mountain") locality, Dzun-Bayan, in the southeastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia. The genus is monotypic, including only the type species, T. longicranialis.

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