Psittacosauridae

Psittacosauridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratopsiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya100.5 Mya144 Mya93 Mya

8 occurrences of Psittacosauridae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

8 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

7 formations

Dzunbain — 43.88°N, 111.43°ELuohandong — 38.92°N, 108.08°EDoushan — 36.98°N, 120.71°ETianjialou — 34.82°N, 118.49°EGrès supérieurs — 16.40°N, 105.68°EXinlong — 22.34°N, 107.98°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°E

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The named rock units Psittacosauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psittacosauridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Psittacosauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Psittacosauridae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

8 references

Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Psittacosauridae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Luna04~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psittacosauridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCeratopsia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1923