Yang Zhongjian
Dong is considered an instrumental part of the reason that China has such an array of known stegosaurid species. In the 2012 textbook "The Complete Dinosaur" (co-authored by researchers M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., and James O. Farrow), Dong and his mentor Yang Zhongjian are praised for their efforts to advance palaeontology's understanding of stegosaurids: