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



Gesendet:ÂFreitag, 26. Juli 2019 um 02:09 Uhr
Von:Â"Ben Creisler" <bcreisler@gmail.com>

> 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
>
> [...] 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...