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Qingxiusaurus

Say it: ching-shee-oh-SORE-us

Name means: “Qingxiu lizard, named after the beautiful scenery of mountains and water in Guangxi, China”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Qingxiusaurus was a giant, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now China. It walked on all four legs and was as heavy as several elephants. Only a few bones have been found, so scientists are still learning about this dinosaur.1 2

Lived

100 to 66 million years ago5

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Guangxi, China1 2

Food

Plants2

Length

10 to 100 m2

estimate from PBDB adult length range

Weight

6.3 tonnes4

estimate, largest known specimen

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 4 cars

as long as 22 cars parked in a rowas long as 560 bananas end to endabout as heavy as an elephantas heavy as 1300 watermelons

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Qingxiusaurus is known from only a few bones: two upper arm bones, two chest plates, and one spine bone from the tail.1

Its name comes from 'Qingxiu', which is short for a Chinese phrase describing the beautiful mountains and water of Guangxi.1

Scientists think Qingxiusaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous period, between about 72 and 66 million years ago.1

The chest plates of Qingxiusaurus were short compared to its arm bones, which helped scientists tell it apart from other titanosaurs.3

Qingxiusaurus belonged to a group of sauropods called titanosaurs, which were some of the largest land animals ever.1

The first fossils of Qingxiusaurus were collected in 1991, but the dinosaur was not named until 2008.1

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Scientific name: Qingxiusaurus
Named by: Mo et al. 20085
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Saltasauridae5
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria5
Age of the rocks: 100 to 66 million years (Cenomanian / Maastrichtian)5
Countries: China5
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database5
Discovery: Qingxiusaurus was named by Mo Jinyou and colleagues in 2008, based on fossils found in Guangxi, China. The bones were collected in 1991 from the Dashi Site.1 3
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Qingxiusaurus was, because only a few bones have been found.1

Where the facts come from

Qingxiusaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
A NEW TITANOSAUR (DINOSAURIA: SAUROPODA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF GUANGXI, CHINA (vertpala.ac.cn)
Qingxiusaurus youjiangensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Qingxiusaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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