Gurilynia

From Gurilyn (Tsav), a locality in Mongolia

• Gurilyn · Mongolian · Gurilyn Tsav, the fossil locality in Mongolia
• -ia · Latin · place-name suffix

Gurilynia is named after Gurilyn Tsav, the fossil locality in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia where the remains were found. The ending "-ia" is a Latinised suffix used to form a place name. The species name, nessovi, honours the Russian paleontologist Lev Nessov.

Named by

Averianov and Lopatin

Year named

2022

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Nemegt Formation, Gurilyn Tsav, Mongolia

A titanosaurian sauropod. Details such as authorship, year and exact age are given from memory and should be checked against the original publication.