Qingxiusaurus (‬Qingxiu Lizard)

Basic facts

  • Late Cretaceous

  • China

  • Herbivore

Qingxiusaurus, meaning "Qingxiu lizard," with "Qingxiu" derived from Pinyin "shangqingshuixiu," which translates to "a picturesque landscape of mountains and water in Guangxi," belongs to the titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs. It hails from the Late Cretaceous Dashi Site located in Guangxi, China. As with other sauropods, Qingxiusaurus would have been a sizable, four-legged herbivore.

Information on Qingxiusaurus is rather limited, primarily based on the type fossils unearthed in 1991. These fossils consist of two humeri, two sternal plates, and the neural spine of a single vertebra. The available remains hint at Qingxiusaurus being a titanosaur, but due to the scarcity of fossils, establishing an exact size for this dinosaur remains challenging. Moreover, the precise age of the fossil site hasn't been more precisely determined than within the late Cretaceous period.