Shixinggia

Shixinggia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Saurischia
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.

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