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Psittacosaurus meileyingensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Psittacosaurus meileyingensis was named by Sereno et al. (1988). Its type specimen is IVPP V7705, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Meileyingzi, which is in an Aptian terrestrial horizon in the Jiufotang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno et al. p. 366
1990Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno p. 207
1992Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Dong p. 166
1994Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Dong p. 2098
1994Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Matsukawa and Obata p. 117
1997Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Le Loeuff p. 454
1997Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno p. 611
1999Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Wang et al. p. 3
2000Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Leshchinskiy et al. p. 365
2000Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno p. 492
2001Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Brinkman et al. p. 1781
2003Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 296
2004Psittacosaurus meileyingensis You and Dodson p. 479
2006Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Averianov et al. p. 390
2006Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Zhou et al. p. 104
2007Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno et al. p. 277
2008Psittacosaurus meileyingensis You et al. p. 195
2010Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno p. 29
2010Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Sereno et al. p. 202
2014Psittacosaurus meileyingensis Hedrick et al. p. 322

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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
speciesmeileyingensis

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 meileyingensis Sereno et al. 1988
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Diagnosis
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