Chingkankousaurus

Chingkankou lizard

• Chingkankou · Chinese (place name, Wade-Giles romanisa · Chingkankou (a locality in China)
• saurus · Greek · lizard

The name combines the place name "Chingkankou" (also rendered Jingangkou in Pinyin), a locality in Shandong Province, China, where the fossil material was recovered, with the Greek word "sauros" meaning lizard. The name therefore means "Chingkankou lizard," following the common paleontological convention of honouring the discovery site in the genus name.

Named by

Young

Year named

1958

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Campanian – Maastrichtian

Found in

Wangshi Group, Shandong Province, China

Chingkankousaurus is generally regarded as a nomen dubium. It was described by C. C. Young in 1958 on the basis of a single partial scapula (shoulder blade) from the Wangshi Group of Shandong, China. The material is too fragmentary to confidently diagnose the genus or assign it reliably within Theropoda (it has been tentatively referred to as a large theropod, possibly a tyrannosaurid). Because of the paucity of the holotype, most modern reviews treat the name as indeterminate.