Psittacosaurus

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¤ Etymologie du nom: "Reptile perroquet"

¤ Position dans la classification: Psittacosauridae

¤ Eres géologiques: Crétacé inférieur (145.5-99.6 MA.)

¤ Taille estimée: 2 m max.

¤ Poids estimé: 30-40 kg

¤ Régime alimentaire: Herbivore

¤ Répartition géographique: Chine, Mongolie, Russie

¤ Découvert en: 1922

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Publications

• Osborn, H.F. (1923). Two Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mongolia. Amer. Mus. Novitates 95, 1-10
• Young C. -C. (1931). On some new dinosaurs from western Suiyan. Inner Mongolia. Bull. Geol. Surv. China 2:159-166.
• Young C. -C. (1958). (The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shanrung]. Palaeontol. Sinica (ser. C) 16:1 - 138.
• Chao S. (1962). [Concerning a new species of Psittacosaurus from Layjyang, Shantung.] Vert. PalAsiatica 6: 349-360
• Cheng Z. (1983). [Reptilia]. In: [The Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleont~ogy of the Guyang Coal-Bearing Basin, Nei Mongoll Autonomous Region, China.] Geology Press. Beijing. Pp. 123-136
• Sereno, P.C. and Zhao, Z. -J. (1988). Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia), a new psittacosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northwestern China. JVP 8, 353-365
• Sereno. P. C., Chao S., Cheng Z., and Rao C. (1988). Psittacosaurus meileyingensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia). a new psittacosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern China. J. Vert. Paleontol. 8: 366-377
• Buffetaut, E. and Suteethorn, V. (1992). A new species of the ornithischian dinosaur Psittacosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand. Palaeontology 35, 801-812
• Russell, D.A. and Zhao, Z. -J. (1996). New psittacosaur occurences in Inner Mongolia. Can. J. Earth. Sci. 33, 637-648
• Xu, X. (1997) A new psittacosaur (Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis sp. nov.) from Mazongshan area, Gansu province, China. In. Z.-M. Dong (ed.), Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition, pp. 48-67. Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica. Beijing: China Ocean Press.
• Zhou, Z., Gao, K.Q., Fox, R.C. and Chen, S.H. (2006). A new species of Psittacosaurus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, Liaoning, China. Paleoworld 5, Issue 1, Page 100-114