Chungkingosaurus

Chongqing lizard

• Chungking · Chinese (Wade-Giles style romanisation) · Chongqing, the city and region in China
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines "Chungking", an older romanisation of the Chinese city Chongqing, with the Greek word for lizard. It refers to the Chongqing area of China, where the fossils were found. The type species is Chungkingosaurus jiangbeiensis.

Named by

Dong, Zhou and Zhang

Year named

1983

Period

Late Jurassic

Found in

Upper Shaximiao Formation, Chongqing (Sichuan Basin), China

A small stegosaurid (stegosaur) dinosaur known from fragmentary material. Some researchers have questioned how diagnostic the remains are, so its validity is sometimes debated.