Ruixinia
| Ruixinia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Barremian), ~
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
| Genus: | †Ruixinia Mo et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †R. zhangi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ruixinia zhangi Mo et al., 2022
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Ruixinia is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Yixian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Ruixinia zhangi, known from a partial articulated skeleton. This specimen preserves the most complete series of caudal vertebrae known from any Asian titanosauriform.