On March 16, a study of the remains of a new dinosaur species with spiked armor discovered in southwestern China by Yunnan University's School of Life Sciences was published in eLife. Paleontologists said the species is a thyreophoran, a group that also includes Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus, and that it lived around 192–174 million years ago during the Early Jurassic period. Named Yuxisaurus kopchicki, it is the earliest well preserved armored dinosaur ever found in Asia.