Yang Zhongjian
The genus was named and described in 2005 by Wang Xiaolin, Alexander Kellner, Zhou Zhonghe and Diogenes de Almeida Campos. The type species is "Feilongus youngi". The genus name is derived from "Feilong", the "flying dragon". The specific name honors the Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian (C. C. Young).