| Description | Tarchia (meaning "brainy one") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ankylosauridae : Tarchia |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ankylosauridae : Tarchia |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Tarchia Maryanska, 1977 |
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| Name Published In | Palaeont. Pol. No. 37 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Maryanska, 1977 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Nodosauridae | stated with evidence | Tumanova, 1977 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated without evidence | Tumanova, 1983 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1986 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated without evidence | Tumanova, 1987 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Barsbold, 1997 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Tumanova, 2000 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Syrmosaurinae | stated without evidence | Ford, 2000 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Carpenter, 2001 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated without evidence | Vickaryous et al., 2001 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated with evidence | Vickaryous et al., 2004 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Parsons and Parsons, 2009 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated without evidence | Longrich et al., 2010 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosauridae | stated with evidence | Arbour et al., 2013 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated with evidence | Han et al., 2014 | | Tarchia | genus | belongs to Ankylosaurinae | stated without evidence | Arbour et al., 2014 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | T. Maryanska. 1977. Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 37:85-151 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarchia |
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| Maryanska T. (1977) Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 37, 85-151 |
| Tumanova T. A. (1983) Pervyy ankilozavr iz nizhnego mela Mongolii [The first ankylosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia], In L. P. Tatarinov, R. Barsbold, E. Vorobyeva, B. Luvsandanzan, B. A. Trofimov, Yu. A. Reshetov, & M. A. Shishkin (eds.), Iskopayemyye reptilii mongolii [Fossil Reptiles of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 24, 110-118 |
| Sereno P. C. (1986) Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs (order Ornithischia), National Geographic Research 2 2, 234-256 |
| Tumanova T. A. (1987) Pantsirnyye dinozavry Mongolii [The armored dinosaurs of Mongolia], Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 32, 1-80 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Kirkland J. I. (1998) A polacanthine ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Dinosauria) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of eastern Utah, Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems (S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, & J. W. Estep, eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14, 271-281 |
| Ford T. L. (2000) A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor, Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 157-176 |
| Tumanova T. A. (2000) Armoured dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 517-532 |
| Vickaryous M. K., Russell A. P., et al (2001) A new ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with comments on ankylosaurian relationships, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38, 1767-1780 |
| Vickaryous M. K., Maryanska T., et al (2004) Ankylosauria, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 363-392 |
| Parsons W. L., Parsons K. M. (2009) A new ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of central Montana, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46, 721-738 doi:10.1139/E09-45 |
| Longrich N. R., Currie P. J., et al (2010) A new oviraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia, Palaeontology 53 5, 945-960 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00968.x |
| Arbour V. M., Lech-Hernes N. L., et al (2013) An ankylosaurid dinosaur from Mongolia with in situ armour and keartinous scale impressions, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 1, 55-64 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0081 |
| Arbour V. M., Burns M. E., et al (2014) A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with implications for ankylosaurid diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of western North America, PLoS ONE 9 9, e108804:1-14 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108804 |
| Arbour V. M., Currie P. J., et al (2014) The ankylosaurid dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172 3, 631-652 doi:10.1111/zoj.12185 |
| Han F., Zheng W., et al (2014) A new basal ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China, PLoS ONE 9 8, e104551:1-17 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104551 |
| Penkalski P., Tumanova T. (2017) The cranial morphology and taxonomic status of Tarchia (Dinosauria: Ankylosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia, Cretaceous Research 70, 117-127 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Palaeont. Pol. No. 37 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Tarchia ✝
