Family
Valid Extinct

Psittacosauridae

Osborn 1923

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Psittacosauridae
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A Psittacosaurus skeleton cast in the permanent collection of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Ceratopsia Suborder
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Psittacosauridae Family
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
🇲🇳 Mongolia
2
🇱🇦 Laos
1
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
1
Geological formations
Luohandong
1
Dzunbain
1
Doushan
1
Tianjialou
1
Grès supérieurs
1
Xinlong
1
Khodzhakul
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
4
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
1
Synonyms (2)
Protiguanodontidae subjective synonym of Psittacosauridae
Stenopelyxidae subjective synonym of Psittacosauridae
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Bibliography
Original description
H. F. Osborn. 1923. Two Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 95:1-10
Bibliography (8)
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Y. V. Suslov and R. Barsbold. 1983. Zakhoroneniye psittakozavrov v Khamryn-us (Vostochnaya Gobi, MNR) [The locality of Psittacosaurus in Chamrin-us, eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia]. Trudy - Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 24:118-120
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C.-C. Young. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 42(16):1-138