- Shixinggia
Taxobox
name = "Shixinggia"
fossil_range =Late Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo =Dinosaur ia
ordo =Saurischia
subordo =Theropoda
familia =Oviraptoridae
genus = "Shixinggia"
genus_authority= Lu & Zhang, 2005
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"S. oblita" Lu & Zhang, 2005 (type)"Shixinggia" is a
genus ofoviraptorosaur iandinosaur from the LateCretaceous 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 anoviraptorid , but it could possibly be a caenagnathid [http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/02/luis-rey-and-new-oviraptorosaur.html] . Along with the more advanced "Heyuannia ", "Shixinggia" is one of the few oviraptorosaurs known from China.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 unpublished PhD dissertation.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
* [http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/02/luis-rey-and-new-oviraptorosaur.html Luis Rey and the new oviraptorosaur panoply] at Tetrapod Zoology
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