Xixianykus
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Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of China.[1] Known from a slab of rock which contains a partial postcranial skeleton unearthed in the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) Majiacun Formation of the Xixia Basin in Henan, China.
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Xixianykus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
Genus: | †Xixianykus Xu et al, 2010 |
Species: | †X. zhangi |
Binomial name | |
†Xixianykus zhangi Xu et al., 2010 | |
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