An “Omei (Mount Emei) lizard” from Late Jurassic China. The Chinese Omei, “lofty” plus mei, “brow”; the name of a sacred mountain, Omeishan, some 100 kilometers west of Yunghsien in Sichuan Province, China. Named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhong-jian (also known as: Chung Chien Young) in 1939.