Qingxiusaurus
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Qingxiusaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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Qingxiusaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Guanxi, China. The type species, described by Mo et al. in 2008, is Q. youjiangensis.[1] Like other sauropods, Qingxiusaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.[2]
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- ^ Mo Jin-You; Huang Chuo-Lin; Zhao Zhong-Ru; Wang Wei; and Xu Xin (2008). "A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Guangxi, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatia 46 (2): 147-156.
- ^ Upchurch, Paul; Barrett, Paul M., and Dodson, Peter. (2004). "Sauropoda", in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press, 259-322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.