Tank

Tank is a Saichania and is a member of the D-Team

## Character development

### Personality:

Tank is a fierce warrior despite being female. She is always eager for battle and doesn't take kindly to surrendering, however, despite her very high temper, she does have a softer side, particularly since she acts like a sister to Paris and is fairly tolerant of her mate, Spiny, in some funny way.

### Anatomy:

as a saichania, tank is a large ankylosaurid. with a length at seven meters. she shared a similar ankylosaurid build, being a low-slung, broad, heavily armoured dinosaur, with short forelimbs. Even for an ankylosaurid however, she is exceptionally robust, its rump strengthened by ossifications and fusions of the vertebral column, ribs, shoulder girdle and breast bones.

Arbour in 2014 established a revised list of distinguishing traits. The osteoderms on the skull are bulbous. The first and second neck vertebrae are fused into a single element, a syncervical. The upper side of the humerus is very broad, equalling 70% of the total length of the bone. The rib shafts are expanded by intercostal ossifications, the cartilage connecting the ribs having been turned into bone sheets. The cervical halfrings, protecting the neck, have each an underlying continuous band of bone and the borders between the segments of these rings are covered by extra armour plates entirely hiding these connections from view.

tanks head is broad, 455 millimetres long and 480 millimetres wide with the holotype. The top of the snout is covered with strongly convex osteoderms. These armour tiles on the snout comprise a central large *caputegula*. A large "loreal" osteoderm covers much of the top edge and the side of the snout. The *caputegula* on the prefrontal is of moderate size and not strongly protruding sideways. The osteoderms on the upper eye socket rim are continuous, not forming two peaks. An extra osteoderm on the rear supraorbital, as in *Tarchia*, is lacking. The pyramid-shaped squamosal horns on the rear skull corners are broad, not narrow as with *Tarchia*. These horns have a uniform surface texture, not a division into a smooth and rough surface as in *Zaraapelta*. On the cheek, large triangular quadratojugal horns are present.

### Body Armor:

tank has a very built body. her neck is protected by two cervical halfrings, each made of six rectangular segments positioned next to each other: two at the top, two at the upper sides and two at the lower sides. Each segment has a keel parallel to the long axis of the body. The keel of her lower side segments is the largest. The segments are connected to an underlying continuous band of bone, mainly by a broad fusion at the front edge, but also by a narrow strip at the rear. The seams between her segments are covered by a rectangular zone of small oval osteoderms. Between the upper and lower side segment a larger central osteoderm is present, forming a rosette. The front halfring is smaller than the rear one.

A central row of symmetrical conical osteoderms is positioned on her back. On both sides of this median series, a parallel row of large thin osteoderms is present, featuring moderately high keels, their apexes pointing to behind. The vertical sides of her rump are covered by three rows of conical osteoderms: the upper rim is equipped with large plates and apexes pointing to the rear; at the middle side a similar row is present of even larger plates; the lower edge has a row of smaller plates, their keels to the contrary directed to the front. In general, the keels are sharp and narrower plates have higher and more asymmetrically placed keels. Some osteoderms have the shape of pure cones. The larger osteoderms are also ordered in transverse rows but are not fused into bands; small ossicles connect the larger elements. On the underside of the breast, osteoderms are present also

## Abilites

### Dino Swing:

Tank bites the dinosaur's tail and swings them around several times before tossing them away!

### Earth Barrier:

Chunks of earth fly up when Tank stomps the ground, expanding into a glowing crystal dome, protecting her from her opponent.

### Earthquake:

Tank stomps the ground, opening up a narrow crevice that her opponent falls into, and then slams shut!

### Tail Smash:

Tank hits the opponent with her tail, which is basically what most ankylosaurs do but her tail turns into a hammer of pure rock!

### Quake Saber:

A crystal sword forms on Tank's tail to slice her opponent with.

### Tupuxara Dive:

Tupuxuara flies in and divebombs Tank's opponent!

### Spike Arrows:

Energy surged across Tank's back and up her tail, and a she shot a swarm of crystal spikes from her tail!

### Ultimate Earth:

While wearing DinoTector Armor, crystals stick up around Tank's path, which she charges through, absorbing power and speed as she breaks them, and then slams into her opponent!

## Move card gallery

dino swingearth barrierearthquaketail smashultimate earthquake sabertupuxuara divespike arrows