Talk:Saichania

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Length[edit]

It does say 7 m in the Dinosauria II, but there must have been a typo somewhere along the way. I've seen and been photographed next to a mount of Saichania, and it was a heck of a lot closer to 7 ft than 7 m. J. Spencer (talk) 22:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure it wasnt a juvenile? The only places ive heard of Saichania from are here and a game, both put it at 7m.Spinodontosaurus (talk) 18:26, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maryańska in 1977 estimated the length of the holotype individual at seven metres, but this was probably based on the assumption that the tail with dinosaurs doubles the length. Ankylosaurid tails are in fact relatively short. Gregory S. Paul reduced the length to 5.2 metres. On the other hand, ZPAL MgD I/113, previously referred to Tarchia gigantea, might conceivably represent the hind of Saichania — there is no overlapping material — and this is a gigantic individual, perhaps around nine metres in length. The small Saichania mount seen, likely was a model of MPC 100/1305, which Arbour recently identified as a possible Pinacosaurus skeleton. More about that below.

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Another mix-up untangled by Arbour: as stated above, MPC 100/1305 is not Saichania, though the mounts are completed with casts of the skull of the holotype of Saichania. The authors of the redescription of 2011 were also misled by this. So the taxobox image is problematic: only the skull is correct. Better to show the picture of the skull cast alone. There is a cast of the holotype on exhibition in the Warsaw Museum of Evolution, in the Palace of Culture and Science. So I call upon all Poles of good palaeontological will: surely you must once have noticed this odd structure in the heart of your capital. Step inside and make a picture of the Saichania holotype cast. It's the one stretched out on a platform just above the floor. Then upload it at WikiCommons. Z góry dziekuję.--MWAK (talk) 14:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This photo focuses mainly on the skull:[1] What does the skeleton belong to? FunkMonk (talk) 15:17, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I presume this is MPC 100/1305, thus likely Pinacosaurus. We could of course put the holotype skull cast in the taxobox.--MWAK (talk) 09:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Carpenter still does not believe 100/1305 is Pinacosaurus but may indeed be Saichania, so... another mix-up untangled by Arbour, but two more created. On a related note, is it legit to add images or figures from articles that are open access?Azul iguana (talk) 05:59, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not only open access, they need a licence that makes them free to use commercially and free to modify. FunkMonk (talk) 07:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Omg, there are more images of Tarchia here than of Saichania. That's very confusing. It would be enough to show one image of PIN 3142/250 and note that it has been referred both to Saichania (in 2014, by Arbour et al) and back to Tarchia (in 2017 by Penkalski & Tumanova). Actually it was referred for many decades to Tarchia, then briefly to Saichania, and now back to Tarchia. In fact, it is now the holotype of a new Tarchia species, T. teresae. Therefore it is inappropriate and confusing to emphasize it here. Arbour has never defended her referral of it to Saichania, presumably because that turned out to be incorrect.Azul iguana (talk) 01:11, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's mainly because we don't have that many other images, have a look at the Commons category:[2] But feel free to prune. FunkMonk (talk) 07:52, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]