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 | |
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.