🎨 RestorationRestoration: Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Psittacosaurus
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis (Psittacosaurus · Psittacosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its estimated weight of about 50 kg is roughly the weight of a small-framed adult human (Comparison).
- 💡 Its estimated body length of 2 m is similar to the length of a single bed (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis (genus Psittacosaurus) was a herbivorous ceratopsian that lived in East Asia from about one hundred and 20 million to 100 million years ago, and its name means 'parrot lizard.'
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It had a curved parrot-like beak and could move on either two or four legs.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
It used its beak to eat plants. Henry Fairfield Osborn named the genus in 1923 with mongoliensis as the type species, and its fossils are found in China, Mongolia, and Russia.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20719167
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Psittacosaurus mongoliensis - AMNH - DSC06312.JPG
- • nhm.ac.uk — psittacosaurus.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Skye McDavid · CC BY 3.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.