Xixianykus
| Xixianykus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
| Genus: | †Xixianykus Xu et al, 2010 |
| Species: | †X. zhangi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Xixianykus zhangi Xu et al., 2010
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Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur 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.