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Shixinggia

Say it: shee-SHING-gee-ah

Name means: “from Shixing”1

Ate: A bit of everythingOdd feathered dinosLate Cretaceous

Shixinggia was a small, feathered dinosaur that lived in what is now China. It had a beak and probably ate both plants and small animals. It belonged to a group called oviraptorosaurs, which looked a bit like birds.1 4

Lived

72 to 66 million years ago4

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Shixing County, Guangdong, China1 4

Food

A bit of everything4

Length

1.8 m3

largest known specimen

Weight

30 kg3

largest known specimen

Top speed

about 44 km/h (27 mph)

Running, estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 8 house cats

as long as 4 house cats nose to tailas long as 10 bananas end to endas heavy as 6 watermelons

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How fast was it?

A person walking about 5 km/h (3 mph)

A kid on a bike about 22 km/h (14 mph)

Shixinggia about 44 km/h (27 mph)

A galloping horse about 65 km/h (40 mph)

A cheetah about 100 km/h (62 mph)

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Fun facts

Shixinggia lived about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.1

No skull was found, but scientists recovered many bones from the rest of the body, including the legs and hips.1

The only known fossil was collected by the Beijing Natural History Museum in 1995.2

Shixinggia had a large air hole on its thigh bone and a smaller one on its shin bone, which are not seen in other oviraptorosaurs.2

It was a fairly advanced oviraptorosaur, meaning it was more bird-like than some of its relatives.1

The name Shixinggia comes from Shixing County in Guangdong, China, where the fossil was found.1

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Scientific name: Shixinggia
Named by: Lü and Zhang 20054
Group: Odd feathered dinos
Family / clade: Oviraptoridae4
Classification: Theropoda > Oviraptorosauria4
Age of the rocks: 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)4
Rock formations: Pingling4
Countries: China4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: The first Shixinggia fossil was collected by the Beijing Natural History Museum in 1995. It was named and described by Chinese paleontologists Lü Junchang and Zhang Baokun in 2005.2 1 4
Still debated: Scientists are not sure if Shixinggia belongs to the oviraptorid family or the caenagnathid family.1

Where the facts come from

Shixinggia (en.wikipedia.org)
记中国南方广东省南雄盆地晚白垩世一新的窃蛋龙类化石----中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所图书馆 (nigpas.cas.cn)
Shixinggia oblita | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Shixinggia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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