Saichania
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| phylum | Chordata | Saichania was found in the Barun Goyot Formation at Khulsan in the Nemegt Basin, southern Mongolia. It lived during the Campanian. Saichania was a bulky, heavily armoured dinosaur with a maximum length of about 6.6 metres (22 ft) long. The armour on the top of its head and along its back and flanks were studded with large spikes, and it had a club-shaped tail. The skull had complex air passages, and an unusually solid hard palate. These may have allowed the animal to cool the air that it breathed, and to eat tough plants, suggesting that it lived in a hot, arid, environment.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Ornithischia | |
| family | Ankylosauridae | |
| genus | Saichania | |
| Period | Late Cretaceous |
