Qingxiusaurus

Taxobox
name = "Qingxiusaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Sauropoda
unranked_familia = Titanosauria
genus = "Qingxiusaurus"
genus_authority = Mo "et al.", 2008
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Q. youjiangensis" Mo "et al.", 2008 (type)

"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".cite journal |author=Mo Jin-You |coauthors=Huang Chuo-Lin; Zhao Zhong-Ru; Wang Wei; and Xu Xin |year=2008 |title= A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Guangxi, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatia |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=147-156 ] Like other sauropods, "Qingxiusaurus" would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.cite book |last=Upchurch|first=Paul |coauthors=Barrett, Paul M., and Dodson, Peter. |editor=Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.)|title=The Dinosauria |edition=2nd |year= 2004|publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |pages=259-322 |chapter=Sauropoda]

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