Yang Zhongjian
The fossils of "Chialingosaurus" were collected by the geologist Kuan Yaowu or Guan Yao-Wu in 1957, at Taipingstai in Quxian County, while surveying the Chialing River in southern China. The type species "Chialingosaurus kuani" was named and described by paleontologist Yang Zhongjian, ("C. C. Young") two years later in 1959. The generic name refers to the Chialing. The specific name honours Kuan. "Chialingosaurus" was the first stegosaurian described from China.