Shixinggia

Shixinggia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
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.

See also

• Timeline of oviraptorosaur research

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 unpublished PhD dissertation.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