Pronunciation: beg
Meaning: for Beg tse
Author/s: Yu et al. (2020)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Ömnögovi, Mongolia
Discovery Chart Position: #1028
Beg tse
(for Beg Tse)Etymology
Beg tse is named after the Himalayan deity Beg-tse, the Mongolian pre-Buddhist god of war. Beg tse (the deity) is commonly portrayed as being heavily armored with large rugosities on his body, similar to the rugose structures on some of this dinosaur's skull bones, hence the name.
ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D5EDF B08-46FC-4D1B-9D3F-F5B60B3DCE7A.
Discovery
The remains of Beg were discovered in the Ulaanoosh Formation (previously known as the Baruunbayan Formation), 14 km from the town of Tsogt-Ovoo, Ömnögovi Aimag (Province), Mongolia, during the 2015 Mongolian Academy of Sciences—American Museum of Natural History Joint Paleontological Expedition.
The holotype (GM 100/3652) is a partial skull and fragmentary partial skeleton, including a rib, a partial left shoulder blade, a piece of right ischium, and several unidentifiable bone fragments.
Preparators
Amy Davidson.
