Yuan'an County () is a county in the west of

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China' ...

of Yichang. ''

Yuanansuchus ''Yuanansuchus'' is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the Xinlingzhen formation in Yuan'an County, Hubei, China and date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. See also * Prehistoric ...

'', an extinct mastodonsauroid

temnospondyl Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinthodontia, primitive amphi ...

, is named after Yuan'an County where its remains were first discovered.

Administrative divisions

Six towns: * Mingfeng (), Hualinsi (), Jiuxian (), Yangping (), Maopingchang (), Hehua () The only township is Hekou Township ()

Climate

References

Counties of Hubei Geography of Yichang {{Hubei-geo-stub