Re: [dinosaur] Psittacosaurus amitabha, new species from Cretaceous Ondai Sayr Locality, Mongolia

"Yazbeck, Thomas" <[email protected]>
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It's less work to come up with a new genus ;) Will Psittacosaurus get the Iguanodon treatment?


T. Yazbeck

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Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Psittacosaurus amitabha, new species from Cretaceous Ondai Sayr Locality, Mongolia

Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Juli 2019 um 02:09 Uhr
Von: "Ben Creisler" <[email protected]>

> James G. Napoli, Tyler Hunt, Gregory M. Erickson & Mark A. Norell (2019)
> Psittacosaurus amitabha, a New Species of Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Ondai Sayr Locality, Central Mongolia.
> American Museum Novitates 3932:1-36
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> [...] Psittacosaurus amitabha is resolved as the most basal member of the genus Psittacosaurus in our phylogenetic analysis. This taxon expands our knowledge of the already-speciose genus Psittacosaurus

These two sentences are arbitrary; nothing prevented the authors from naming a new genus for this species. But apparently psittacosaurid genera are like Highlanders, there can be only one...
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