Psittacosaurus amitabha

No picture of Psittacosaurus amitabha was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psittacosaurus amitabha itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Psittacosaurus amitabha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 121.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133.1 Mya120.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Psittacosaurus amitabha 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

1 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

1 formation

Andaikhudag — 44.75°N, 101.87°E

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The named rock units Psittacosaurus amitabha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Psittacosaurus amitabha and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Psittacosaurus amitabha and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Psittacosaurus amitabha, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Psittacosaurus amitabha was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psittacosaurus amitabha itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Psittacosaurus amitabha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Psittacosaurus amitabha was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPsittacosaurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Napoli et al. 2019