| Qingxiusaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | † Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | † Sauropoda |
| Clade: | † Macronaria |
| Clade: | † Titanosauria |
| Family: | † Saltasauridae |
| Genus: | † Qingxiusaurus Mo et al., 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †Qingxiusaurus youjiangensis Mo et al., 2008 | |
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 titanosaur sauropod dinosaur 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 quadrupedal herbivore. [2] It is known from only limited remains collected in 1991: Two humeri, two sternal plates, and the neural spine of a single vertebra.
