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QINGXIUSAURUS
(kwin-se-u-sore-us)
meaning: "Qingxiu lizard"
Named By: J.inY. Mo, C.inL. Huang, Z.inR. Zhao, W. Wang & X. Xing in 2008
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Location: China, Guanxi Province
Size: Unknown due to lack of post cranial skeletal remains
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Two humerus and sternal plates. Single neural spine from a vertebra
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropoda | Titanosauria |
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Qingxiusaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Guangxi, China. The type species, described by Mo et al. in 2008, is Q. youjiangensis. Like other sauropods, Qingxiusaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore. It is known from only limited remains: Two humeri, two sternal plates, and the neural spine of a single vertebra.

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