Tarchia was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited Asia. Its fossils have been found in places such as Bayankhongor (Mongolia) and 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):
- Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and R. Barsbold. 1972. Narrative of the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions 1967-1971. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:5-136
- Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and K. Kowalski. 1965. Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions to the Gobi Desert in 1963 and 1964. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Cl. II 13(3):175-179
- A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1952. Novyi predstavitel' utkonosykh dinozavrov iz verkhnemelovykh otlozhenii Mongolii [A new representative of the duck-billed dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 86(2):405-408
