Dinosaur
Psittacosaurus
Its tall, powerful beak looked like a parrot's, which also inspired its name.
Psittacosaurus combined a powerful beak with a surprise in its tail: at least one specimen retains long filaments.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Psittacosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Psittacosauridae
- Psittacosaurids
- Fossil locations
- China, Mongolia, Russia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Psittacosaurus
The adults walked on two legs and had a powerful beak. At least one specimen retains long filaments in the tail, in addition to other parts of the body cover.
Its name and appearance highlight a high and powerful beak, similar to that of a parrot. That evidence belongs to a specific fossil. It helps to expand its reconstruction without assuming that we know all the details of the coverage of each species of the genus.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
Its name and appearance highlight a high and powerful beak, similar to that of a parrot. That evidence belongs to a specific fossil. It helps to expand its reconstruction without assuming that we know all the details of the coverage of each species of the genus.
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- Psittacosaurus
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- Psittacosaurus
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- Psittacosauridae
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