Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis

No picture of Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis 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 xinjiangensis, 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 37 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.8 Mya99.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis 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

2 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

Lianmuqin — 46.10°N, 85.67°E

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The named rock units Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis 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.

Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis 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 xinjiangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sereno and Chao 1988