Tanius
TAN-ee-us</pronunciation> <parameter name="taxonomic_status">accepted /ˈtæniəs/
Named after Tan (Tan Xichou)
- Tan · Chinese (surname) · Tan Xichou (H. C. Tan), Chinese geologist
- -ius · Latin · Latinised name ending
Tanius was named in honour of Tan Xichou (H. C. Tan), a Chinese geologist who worked on the geology of Shandong and helped with the fossil discoveries there. The Latinised ending "-ius" turns his surname into a genus name. The type species is Tanius sinensis.
- Named by
- Wiman
- Year named
- 1929
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Found in
- Wangshi Group, Shandong, China
A hadrosauroid (primitive duck-billed dinosaur) from eastern China. The exact age of the Wangshi Group is debated, so no stage is given here.