Jiangxisaurus (Jiangxi lizard) is a genus of oviraptorid theropod dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous period about 66 million years ago in China.
Description[]
Jiangxisaurus was a small individual that resembled the related Heyuannia but with more strongly curved anterior claws and a thinner, frailer mandible.
Discovery and Naming[]
Jiangxisaurus is known from a single partial sub adult skeleton from a Maastrictian rock layer in the Nanxiong formation in China. Jiangxisaurus means "Jiangxi Lizard" because it was named after the province of Jiangxi where it was found.
Classification[]
Jiangxisaurus is a member of Oviraptoridae and is closest related to Oksoko in the subfamily of Heyuanniinae.
Paleoenvironment[]
Jiangxisaurus lived in the Nanxiong Formation alongside the hadrosaur Microhadrosaurus. the fellow oviraptorids Banji, Corythoraptor, Ganzhousaurus, Huanansaurus, Nankangia, Shixinggia and Tongtianlong. The sauropods Gannansaurus and Jiangxititan. The therizinosaur Nanshiungosaurus and the tyrannosaurid Qianzhousaurus.