Yang Zhongjian
In 1950, at Hsikou, near Chingkangkou, in Laiyang, Shandong, in the eastern part of China, various remains of large hadrosaurids were uncovered. In 1958 these were described by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian ("C.C. Young") as the type species "Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus". The generic name is derived from the city of Qingdao, earlier often transliterated as "Tsintao". The specific name means "with a nose spine", from Latin "spina", and Greek ῥίς, "rhis", "nose", in reference to the distinctive crest on the snout.