Shixinggia
| Shixinggia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Oviraptorosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Caenagnathoidea |
| Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
| Genus: | †Shixinggia Lu & Zhang, 2005 |
| Species: | † S. oblita |
| Binomial name | |
| Shixinggia oblita Lu & Zhang, 2005 | |
Shixinggia is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Shixing County, Guangdong, China. While no skull was recovered, the specimen (BVP-112) is known from a fair amount of post-cranial material that shows it was a fairly derived oviraptorosaur (slightly more advanced than Nomingia), of superfamily Caenagnathoidea. Lü et al. (2003, 2005) describe it as an oviraptorid, but it could possibly be a caenagnathid . Along with the more advanced Heyuannia, Shixinggia is one of the few oviraptorosaurs known from China.
References
- Lu, J., Zhang, B.-K. and Li (2003). "A new oviraptorid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Shixing, Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong Province, Southern China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3), 73A.
- Lu, J. (2004). Oviraptorid dinosaurs from southern China. Southrern Methodist University. unpublished PhD dissertation.
- Lu, J. (2005). Oviraptorid dinosaurs from Southern China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing. ISBN 7-116-04368-3. 200 pages + 8 plates.
- Lu, J. and Zhang, B.-K. (2005). "A new oviraptorid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province of southern China." Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44(3): 412-422.
External links
- Luis Rey and the new oviraptorosaur panoply at Tetrapod Zoology