Alternative combination: Psittacosaurus sibericus
Belongs to Psittacosaurus according to P. C. Sereno 2010
See also Averianov et al. 2006, Butler and Sullivan 2009, Demidenko and Maschenko 2016, Han et al. 2012, Irmis and Knoll 2008, Leshchinskiy et al. 2000, Lopatin et al. 2015, Morschhauser et al. 2019, Podlesnov 2018, Sereno et al. 2010, Son et al. 2022 and You et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Psittacosaurus amitabha, Psittacosaurus gobiensis, Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis, Psittacosaurus meileyingensis, Psittacosaurus mongoliensis, Psittacosaurus neimongoliensis, Psittacosaurus ordosensis, Psittacosaurus sinensis, Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis
Type specimen: PM TGU 16/4-20, a skeleton. Its type locality is Shestakovo-3, which is in a Barremian/Aptian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/siltstone in the Ilek Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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