Psittacosaurus mongoliensis

Psittacosaurus mongoliensis

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 43 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144 Mya99.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis 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

14 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

6 formations

Öösh — 44.24°N, 102.73°EÖösh — 44.75°N, 101.87°ELisangou — 41.02°N, 110.08°EDöshuul — 45.40°N, 101.73°EJiufotang — 41.25°N, 120.03°EDushihin — 45.40°N, 101.73°EDzunbain — 42.45°N, 102.42°E

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The named rock units Psittacosaurus mongoliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psittacosaurus mongoliensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Psittacosaurus mongoliensis, 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 14 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 content3

Picture of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis · AMNH:FARB:6524

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Osborn 1923