Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2021 9:06:35 GMT
"Dino of the Day!": Psittacosaurus
Pronunciation: Sit-tah-coe-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Parrot lizard", after its parrot-like beak.
Species: P. mongoliensis, P. amitabha, P. gobiensis, P. sattayaraki, P. lujiatunensis, P. mazongshanensis, P. meileyingensis, P. neimongoliensis, P. ordosensis, P. sibiricus, P. sinensis. P. xinjiangensis
Size: The largest species, P. mongoliensis, measured 2 metres long, 1.2 metres tall and weighing between 25 and 80kgs.
Family: Psittacosauridae.
Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known from several specimens. First discovered during an American Museum of Natural History expedition to Mongolia's Gobi Desert in 1922. P. mongoliensis named by American palaeontologist, Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1923. P. sinensis named in 1958. P. meileyingensis and P. xinjiangensis named in 1988. P. sattayaraki named in 1992. P. neimongoliensis and P. ordosensis named in 1996. P. mazongshanensis named in 1997. P. sibiricus named in 2000. P. lujiatunensis named in 2006. P. gobiensis named in 2010. P. amitabha named in 2019.
Lived: Depending on species, lived between 126 and 101 million years ago during the Barremian, Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Russia, Mongolia and China.
Pronunciation: Sit-tah-coe-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Parrot lizard", after its parrot-like beak.
Species: P. mongoliensis, P. amitabha, P. gobiensis, P. sattayaraki, P. lujiatunensis, P. mazongshanensis, P. meileyingensis, P. neimongoliensis, P. ordosensis, P. sibiricus, P. sinensis. P. xinjiangensis
Size: The largest species, P. mongoliensis, measured 2 metres long, 1.2 metres tall and weighing between 25 and 80kgs.
Family: Psittacosauridae.
Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known from several specimens. First discovered during an American Museum of Natural History expedition to Mongolia's Gobi Desert in 1922. P. mongoliensis named by American palaeontologist, Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1923. P. sinensis named in 1958. P. meileyingensis and P. xinjiangensis named in 1988. P. sattayaraki named in 1992. P. neimongoliensis and P. ordosensis named in 1996. P. mazongshanensis named in 1997. P. sibiricus named in 2000. P. lujiatunensis named in 2006. P. gobiensis named in 2010. P. amitabha named in 2019.
Lived: Depending on species, lived between 126 and 101 million years ago during the Barremian, Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Russia, Mongolia and China.
