Dunhuangia

of Dunhuang

• Dunhuang · Chinese (place name) · the city of Dunhuang, Gansu, China
• -ia · Latin · place or land of (Latinised suffix)

Dunhuangia is named after Dunhuang, the city in Gansu Province, China, near where the fossils were found. The Latinised "-ia" ending simply turns the place name into a genus name, so it means "from Dunhuang". It is a small, early neoceratopsian (horned dinosaur relative).

Named by

Morschhauser et al.

Year named

2018

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Xiagou Formation, Mazongshan area, Gansu Province, China

Basal neoceratopsian (ceratopsian ornithischian). Type species is Dunhuangia cuii. Authorship, stage and formation details are given from memory and should be verified.