Ingenia

"of Ingeni (Ingen Khobur)"

• Ingen(i) · Mongolian (place name) · Ingeni Khobur, the fossil locality in Mongolia
• -ia · Latin · Latinised place-name suffix

Ingenia is named after Ingeni Khobur (Ingen Khobur), the locality in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia where the first fossils were found. It is a place-based name rather than a descriptive one. The type species, I. yanshini, honours the Soviet geologist Yanshin.

Named by

Barsbold

Year named

1981

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Nemegt Formation, Ingeni Khobur, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Ingenia is an oviraptorid theropod. The name was later found to be preoccupied by an earlier-named nematode genus, and Easter (2013) proposed the replacement name Ajancingenia. Not all researchers have adopted the replacement, so Ingenia is still widely used in the literature.