Xingtianosaurus
| Xingtianosaurus | |
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| Holotype specimen, photograph (left) and line drawing (right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Caudipteridae |
| Genus: | †Xingtianosaurus Qiu et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Xingtianosaurus ganqi Qiu et al., 2019
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Xingtianosaurus is an extinct
theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. The type and only species, X. ganqi, was named and described in 2019.[1] It was placed in the Caudipteridae, alongside Caudipteryx and Similicaudipteryx.[2][3][4]
Discovery and naming
The
decapitated. This name references the skull-less holotype. The epithet ganqi refers to the weapon, a battle axe, that Xingtian wielded.[1]
Description
The holotype specimen is almost complete, missing only the skull, several vertebrae and the coracoids.[1]
