Ruixinia zhangi Ruixinia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ruixinia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Euhelopodidae
Ruixinia is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Yixian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Ruixinia zhangi, known from a partial articulated skeleton. This specimen preserves the most complete series of caudal vertebrae known from any Asian titanosauriform.
What we know
- Named by Mo et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.