Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur

Saichania

Say it sigh-CHAN-ee-a. The name means ‘beautiful’.

Saichania beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of armoured dinosaurs
Length
6.6 m
Diet
Plant-eater
When
Late Cretaceousabout 80 million years ago
Fossils found in
Mongolia
Named by
Maryañska (1977)
Family tree
Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria › Ankylosauridae
TriassicJurassicCretaceousSaichania252 Ma66 Ma
Where Saichania sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33

Lived at the same time

Other armoured dinosaurs

Source: Saichania in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.