Barsboldia

Barsbold's (animal)

• Barsbold · Mongolian (personal name) · Rinchen Barsbold, Mongolian paleontologist
• -ia · Latin · Latinised suffix used for genus names

Barsboldia honours Rinchen Barsbold, the Mongolian paleontologist who led and took part in many Polish-Mongolian fossil expeditions to the Gobi Desert and made major contributions to the study of Mongolian dinosaurs. The name is his surname plus the Latinised ending "-ia", so it is a person-based name rather than a descriptive one. The only named species is Barsboldia sicinskii. It is a hadrosaurid ("duck-billed dinosaur") known from a partial skeleton with unusually tall neural spines on the back and tail vertebrae.

Named by

Maryańska and Osmólska

Year named

1981

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Nemegt Formation, Altan Ula, Ömnögovi Province, Mongolia

Generally treated as a valid hadrosaurid genus, but the material is fragmentary and some researchers have questioned its diagnostic features and validity.