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Psittacosarus

Pronounced: sit-a-co-SAWR-us

Literally, "parrot lizard"

Psittacosarus was a plant-easting dinosaur that lived during the lower Cretaceous period, 100 million years ago. He was an ancestor of the huge Ceratopsians (horn faced) dionsaurs that lived at the end of the Age of Reptiles, some 65 million years ago.

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