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Psittacosaurus

Reptilia

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Protiguanodon Osborn
1923Psittacosaurus Osborn
1923Protiguanodon Osborn p. 6 figs. 3-5
1924Protiguanodon Osborn p. 6
1924Psittacosaurus Osborn p. 6
1928Protiguanodon Nopcsa p. 185
1928Psittacosaurus Nopcsa p. 185
1934Protiguanodon Huene p. 18
1956Protiguanodon Romer p. 631
1956Psittacosaurus Romer p. 631
1958Protiguanodon Huene p. 206
1958Psittacosaurus Huene p. 206
1958Psittacosaurus Young p. 116
1959Protiguanodon Huene p. 122
1959Psittacosaurus Huene p. 122
1964Protiguanodon Kuhn p. 29
1964Psittacosaurus Kuhn p. 29
1964Psittacosaurus Tatarinov p. 557
1966Protiguanodon Romer p. 370
1966Psittacosaurus Romer p. 370
1967Protiguanodon Charig p. 717
1967Psittacosaurus Charig p. 717
1970Psittacosaurus Swinton p. 232
1970Protiguanodon Swinton p. 233
1972Protiguanodon Galton p. 466
1972Psittacosaurus Galton p. 466
1974Protiguanodon Thulborn p. 172
1974Psittacosaurus Thulborn p. 172
1977Psittacosaurus Rozhdestvensky p. 114
1980Psittacosaurus Coombs pp. 380-381
1982Psittacosaurus Cheng p. 123
1982Psittacosaurus Coombs, Jr. p. 99
1982Psittacosaurus Sues and Galton p. 188
1984Psittacosaurus Russell p. 33
1986Protiguanodon Ostrom and Wellnhofer p. 117
1986Psittacosaurus Ostrom and Wellnhofer p. 117
1986Psittacosaurus Sereno
1988Psittacosaurus Carroll
1988Psittacosaurus Sereno and Chao p. 353
1990Psittacosaurus Sereno p. 589
1992Psittacosaurus Buffetaut and Ingavat
1992Psittacosaurus Dong p. 166
1994Psittacosaurus Eberth et al. p. 2103
1994Psittacosaurus Olshevsky and Ford
1996Psittacosaurus ordosensis Russell and Zhao pp. 644-645 fig. 5
1997Psittacosaurus Sereno p. 440 fig. 2
1997Psittacosaurus ordosensis Sereno p. 611
1997Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis Xu pp. 48-49 figs. 1-4, 6
1998Psittacosaurus Sereno p. 62
1999Psittacosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2000Psittacosaurus ordosensis Leshchinskiy et al. p. 365
2000Psittacosaurus Sereno p. 498 fig. 25.8
2001Psittacosaurus Brinkman et al. p. 1781
2001Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis Brinkman et al. p. 1781
2001Psittacosaurus ordosensis Brinkman et al. p. 1781
2001Psittacosaurus Makovicky p. 255
2002Psittacosaurus Buchholz p. 20
2003Psittacosaurus Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 295
2003Psittacosaurus ordosensis Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 297
2003Hongshanosaurus You et al.
2004Psittacosaurus You and Dodson p. 479
2004Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis You and Dodson p. 479
2004Psittacosaurus ordosensis You and Dodson p. 479
2006Psittacosaurus Averianov et al. p. 362
2006Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis Averianov et al. p. 390
2006Psittacosaurus ordosensis Averianov et al. p. 390
2006Hongshanosaurus Campione and Holmes p. 1014
2006Psittacosaurus Campione and Holmes p. 1014
2006Psittacosaurus Zhou et al. p. 101
2006Psittacosaurus ordosensis Zhou et al. p. 107
2006Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis Zhou et al. p. 109
2007Psittacosaurus Butler et al. p. S19 fig. S2
2007Psittacosaurus Sereno et al.
2008Hongshanosaurus Butler et al. p. 8
2008Psittacosaurus Butler et al. p. 8
2008Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis You et al. p. 195
2008Psittacosaurus ordosensis You et al. p. 195
2009Hongshanosaurus Tanoue et al. p. 426
2009Psittacosaurus Tanoue et al. p. 426
2010Psittacosaurus Sereno p. 25
2010Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis You et al. p. 66
2012Psittacosaurus Han et al. p. 1383
2013Psittacosaurus Hedrick and Dodson p. 1
2014Psittacosaurus mazhongshanensis Hedrick et al. p. 322
2014Psittacosaurus ordosensis Hedrick et al. p. 322
2015Psittacosaurus Zheng et al. p. 6–7
2017Psittacosaurus ordosensis Chen p. 155
2018Psittacosaurus ordosensis Lockley et al. p. 151
2018Psittacosaurus ordosensis Xing et al. p. 2
2019Psittacosaurus Morschhauser et al. p. 129 fig. 10
2019Psittacosaurus Napoli et al.
2019Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis You et al. p. 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Marginocephalia
Ceratopsia()
genusPsittacosaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Psittacosaurus Osborn 1923
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Psittacosaurus amitabha Napoli et al. 2019
Psittacosaurus gobiensis Sereno et al. 2010
Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis Zhou et al. 2006
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Invalid names: Psittacosaurus houi You et al. 2003 [synonym], Psittacosaurus major Sereno et al. 2007 [synonym]
Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno et al. 1988
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Invalid names: Protiguanodon mongoliense Osborn 1923 [synonym], Psittacosaurus guyangensis Cheng 1982 [synonym], Psittacosaurus osborni Young 1932 [synonym], Psittacosaurus protiguanodonensis Young 1958 [synonym], Psittacosaurus tingi Young 1932 [synonym]
Psittacosaurus neimongoliensis Russell and Zhao 1996
Psittacosaurus sibiricus Voronkevich and Averianov 2000
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Invalid names: Psittacosaurus youngi Chao 1962 [synonym]
Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno and Chao 1988
Invalid names: Hongshanosaurus You et al. 2003 [synonym], Protiguanodon Osborn 1923 [synonym], Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis Xu 1997 [nomen dubium], Psittacosaurus ordosensis Russell and Zhao 1996 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available