Psittacosaurus sibiricus
species · Voronkevich and Averianov 2000 · accepted · extinct
2 fossil sites · 1 formations · 1 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous
125.77–113.2 million years ago
Found where
1 country
1 rock formations
Fossil record
2 sites
7 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 13 million years, from 125.77 to 113.2 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 113.2 million years old — that is roughly 377 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Psittacosaurus sibiricus was named in 2000 (Voronkevich and Averianov 2000) — 26 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 1 country and 1 named rock formations.
- 7 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).