Qingxiusaurus (meaning "Qingxiu lizard"; "Qingxiu" is short for Pinyin "shangqingshuixiu", which means "a picturesque scenery of mountains and water in Guangxi"[1]) is a genus of titanosaursauropoddinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dashi Site of Guangxi, China. The type species, described by Mo et al. in 2008, is Q. youjiangensis.[1] Like other sauropods, Qingxiusaurus would have been a large quadrupedalherbivore.[2] It is known from only limited remains collected in 1991: Two humeri, two sternal plates, and the neural spine of a single vertebra.
References
^ abMo Jin-You; Huang Chuo-Lin; Zhao Zhong-Ru; Wang Wei; Xu Xin (2008). "A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Guangxi, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 46 (2): 147–156.
^Upchurch, Paul; Barrett, Paul M.; Dodson, Peter. (2004). "Sauropoda". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 259–322. ISBN0-520-24209-2.