Species
Valid Extinct

Psittacosaurus mongoliensis

Osborn 1923

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
14
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Pyrodontia Unranked clade
Cerapoda Unranked clade
Marginocephalia Unranked clade
Ceratopsia Suborder
Psittacosaurus Genus
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis Species
Fossil sites 14 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇳 Mongolia
7
🇨🇳 China
7
Geological formations
Öösh
4
Lisangou
2
Döshuul
1
Dushihin
1
Dzunbain
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
8
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
6
Synonyms (5)
Protiguanodon mongoliense subjective synonym of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
Psittacosaurus guyangensis subjective synonym of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
Psittacosaurus osborni subjective synonym of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
Psittacosaurus protiguanodonensis subjective synonym of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
Psittacosaurus tingi subjective synonym of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
Bibliography
Original description
H. F. Osborn. 1923. Two Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 95:1-10
Bibliography (8)
S. M. Kurzanov and K. E. Mikhailov. 1989. Dinosaur eggshells from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
P. C. Sereno, S. Chao, and Z. Cheng, C. Rao. 1988. Psittacosaurus meileyingensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia), a new psittacosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(4):366-377 DOI ↗
Z.-W. Cheng. 1982. Páxíng lèi {Reptilia}. Mesozoic Stratigraphic Paleontology in the Guyang Coal-Bearing Basin, Inner Mongolia
V. F. Shuvalov. 1975. Novoe Mestonakhozhdenie rannemelovykh dinozavrov Buylyasutuin-Khuduk [A new locality of Early Cretaceous dinosaurs, Buylyasutuin-Khuduk]. Iskopaemaya Fauna I Flora Mongolii [Fossil Flora and Fauna of Mongolia]. Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya, Trudy [The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions] 2:210-213
V. F. Shuvalov. 1974. O geologicheskom stroenii i vozraste mestonakhozhdenii Khobur i Khuren-Dukh [On the geology and age of the Khobur and Khuren-Dukh localities]. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faunas and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia; The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 1:296-304
R. C. Andrews. 1932. The New Conquest of Central Asia: A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions ni Mongolia and China, 1921-1930. Natural History of Central Asia 1:1-678 DOI ↗
C.-C. Young. 1932. On some new dinosaurs from western Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 11:259-266 DOI ↗
H. F. Osborn. 1923. Two Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 95:1-10