Genus
Valid Extinct

Shixinggia

Lü and Zhang 2005

Shixinggia is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Shixing County, Guangdong, China, for which it was named. 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, of superfamily Caenagnathoidea. Lü et al. describe it as an oviraptorid, but it could be a caenagnathid.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Omnivore Ground dwelling (surface) Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Averostra Unranked clade
Tetanurae Unranked clade
Coelurosauria Unranked clade
Maniraptora Unranked clade
Oviraptorosauria Infraorder
Oviraptoridae Family
Heyuanninae Subfamily
Shixinggia Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Shixinggia oblita 72 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
J.-C. Lü and B.-K. Zhang. 2005. A new oviraptorid (theropod: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong province of southern China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44(3):412-422
Bibliography (1)
J.-C. Lü and B.-K. Zhang. 2005. A new oviraptorid (theropod: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong province of southern China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44(3):412-422