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