Dinosaur
Tarchia
One skull preserves tooth marks attributed to a tyrannosaurid.
A Tarchia skull preserves tooth marks attributed to a tyrannosaurid.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Tarchia at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Ankylosauridae
- Ankylosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Mongolia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Tarchia
It was a herbivorous ankylosaurid. Its record is part of the diversity of armored dinosaurs that inhabited Mongolia towards the end of the Cretaceous.
The marks document a contact between teeth and bone. Its study requires distinguishing that evidence from a complete combat scene, which the fossil does not preserve like a film.
Ankylosaurids were protected by bones embedded in their skin. Many had a tail club, but the arrangement of the armor and the shape of the club vary between species.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Tarchia
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- Ankylosauridae
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