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Oviraptoridae

Shixinggia oblita

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Shixinggia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Shixinggia
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (70 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Omnivore
Clade
Oviraptoridae

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 (slightly more advanced than Nomingia), of superfamily Caenagnathoidea. Lü et al. (2003, 2005) describe it as an oviraptorid, but it could be a caenagnathid .

What we know

  • Named by Lu & Zhang, 2005.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Shixinggia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.