Dong Zhiming
The first fossil of "Shunosaurus" was discovered in 1977 by a group of students, practising paleontological excavation at a road bank. The type species, "Shunosaurus lii", was described and named by Dong Zhiming, Zhou Shiwu and Zhang Yihong in 1983. The generic name derives from "Shu", an ancient name for Sichuan. The specific name honours hydrologist Li Bing, the governor of Sichuan in the third century BC.