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Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis

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Taxonomy
Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis was named by Sereno and Chao (1988). Its type specimen is IVPP V7698, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Delunshan (IVPP), which is in a Valanginian/Albian terrestrial mudstone in China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno and Chao p. 353
1990Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno p. 207
1992Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Dong p. 166
1994Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Dong p. 2097
1997Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno p. 611
2000Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Leshchinskiy et al. p. 365
2001Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Brinkman et al. pp. 1781-1782
2001Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Dong p. 99
2004Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis You and Dodson p. 479
2006Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Averianov et al. p. 390
2006Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Zhou et al. p. 111
2007Psittacosaurus xingjiangensis Sereno et al. p. 277
2008Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis You et al. p. 183
2010Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno p. 38
2012Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Han et al. p. 1380
2014Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Hedrick et al. p. 322
2019Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Morschhauser et al. p. 95
2022Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Son et al. p. 21

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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
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Marginocephalia
—Ceratopsia()
genusPsittacosaurus
speciesxinjiangensis

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.

†Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno and Chao 1988
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Diagnosis
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