Yang Zhongjian, also Yang Chung-chien (Chinese: 杨钟健; Wade–Giles: Yang2 Chung1-chien4; 1 June 1897 – 15 January 1979), courtesy name Keqiang (克强), also...
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refers to Chaoyang. The specific name honours the Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian ("C. C. Young") as the founder of Chinese vertebrate paleontology. The...
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Weng Wenhao Wo Weihan Hsien Wu Wu Mengchao Xie Xuejing Yang Fuyu Xiangzhong Yang Yang Zhongjian Yao Zhen Ye Duzheng Ye Peijian Xiaobo Yu Yu Xiaogang Zhang...
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generic name refers to the town Jinzhou. The specific name honours Yang Zhongjian is the founder of Chinese paleontology. It was first described by Wang...
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Sinosaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Lufengosaurus of Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 10(1):64–67 Y. Zhang, and Z. Yang. (1995). A new complete osteology of Prosauropoda in Lufeng Basin, Yunnan...
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saurus, meaning "reptile". For the species, it was chosen to honour Yang Zhongjian, the father and founder of all Chinese paleontology, who was well known...
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Shihtienfenia (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Shihtienfenia was a pareiasaurid parareptile from the Late Permian of China. Lee (1997) refers to S. xuecunensis as a metaspecies lacking the autapomorphies...
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Yunnanosaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
long and 2 m (6.5 ft) high to 4 m (13 ft) high in the largest species. Yang Zhongjian (also known as C. C. Young) discovered the first Yunnanosaurus skeletons...
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(IVPP) in Beijing. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, studying under Yang Zhongjian, who was director at the time. He has described fossil remains of many...
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record. The genus name, Zhongjianichthys, is named after paleontologist Yang Zhongjian (1897-1979), who was widely honored as the "Father of Chinese Vertebrate...
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Omeisaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
initial discovery of Omeisaurus was in 1936 when Charles Lewis Camp and Yang Zhongjian collected a partial skeleton from strata of the Shaximiao Formation...
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Rana basaltica (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Rana basaltica is an extinct species of frog from Middle Miocene of China. It is known from the Shanwang formation beds in the Shanwang National Geological...
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Dsungaripterus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
that of azhdarchoids. Dsungaripterus was described in 1964 named by Yang Zhongjian. The genus name combines a reference to the Junggar Basin with a Latinized...
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Mamenchisaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
335. doi:10.2992/007.085.0403. ISSN 0097-4463. S2CID 210840060. He, Xinlu; Yang, Suihua; Cai, Kaiji; Li, kui; Liu, Zongwen (1996). "A new species of sauropod...
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Notable paleontologists who have been affiliated with the IVPP include Yang Zhongjian (also known as C. C. Young), Dong Zhiming, Meemann Chang and Zhao Xijin...
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Traversodontoides (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Traversodontoides is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids. v t e...
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Sanpasaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Sanpasaurus ("Sanpa lizard") is a poorly known sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Sichuan, China. The type species, S. yaoi, was described by...
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Tsintaosaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
were uncovered. In 1958 these were described by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian ("C.C. Young") as the type species Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus. The generic...
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conspicuously absent beyond these two areas. In 1979, Chinese palaeontologist Yang Zhongjian described a Chinese gorgonopsian "Wangwusaurus tayuensis" based on teeth...
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Keichousaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Keichousaurus (meaning "Kweichow lizard") is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaurian marine reptile from the Chialingchiang and Falang Formations of China...
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Szechuanosaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
over the years. The type species is Szechuanosaurus campi, named by Yang Zhongjian ("Chung Chien Young") in 1942 for four isolated tooth specimens: IVPP...
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Bienotheroides (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Bienotheroides is an extinct genus of tritylodontid mammaliamorphs from the Jurassic of China and Mongolia. The genus contains five species, primarily...
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Yumenerpeton yangi. The species name honors the vertebrate paleontologist Yang Zhongjian. "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17. Jiang, Shan; Ji...
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Noripterus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China. It was first named by Yang Zhongjian (also known as C.C. Young in older sources) in 1973. Additional fossil...
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Sinognathus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Sinognathus is an extinct genus of gomphodont cynodonts from the Middle Triassic Ermaying Formation of China. Its type and only species is Sinognathus...
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family Mamenchisauridae was first erected by Chinese paleontologists Yang Zhongjian ("C.C. Young") and Zhao Xijin in 1972, in a paper describing Mamenchisaurus...
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Bienotherium (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Bienotherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts from the Early Jurassic of China discovered by Bian Meinian (Mei Nien Bien). Despite its size, it is closely...
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tapirs found so far north. The paleontologists Teilhard de Chardin and Yang Zhongjian believed the tapir bones were evidence of a Shang import from the south...
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Sinokannemeyeria (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
Sinokannemeyeria is a genus of kannemeyeriiform dicynodont that lived during the Anisian age of Middle Triassic period in what is now Shanxi, China. Sinokannemeyeria...
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Chialingosaurus (category Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian)
species Chialingosaurus kuani was named and described by paleontologist Yang Zhongjian, ("C. C. Young") two years later in 1959. The generic name refers to...
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