Dong Zhiming
The type and only species of "Tuojiangosaurus", "Tuojiangosaurus multispinus", was named and described in 1977 (exactly a hundred years after the naming of "Stegosaurus" by Othniel Charles Marsh) by Dong Zhiming, Zhou Shiwu, Li Xuanmin and Chang Yijong. The generic name is derived from the River () Tuo. The specific name is derived from Latin "multus", "many", and "spina", "spine".