Xu Xing (paleontologist)
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Xu Xing (Chinese: 徐星; pinyin: Xú Xīng) is a Chinese paleontologist who has named more dinosaurs than any other living paleontologist.[1] Such dinosaurs include the Jurassic ceratopsian Yinlong, the Jurassic tyrannosauroid Guanlong, the large oviraptorosaur Gigantoraptor, and the troodontid Mei. He was born in Xinjiang, China, in 1956. A graduate from the department of geology of Peking University, he is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He had originally planned to become a software designer, but the Chinese government forced him to major in geology. He graduated in 1995, and claims inspiration from Roy Chapman Andrews.[2]
Among Xu's paleontological contributions, have been discovery and analysis of dinosaur fossils with avian characteristics, and development of theories in regarding the evolution of feathers.[3]
Genera described by Xu Xing
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Previously described as a specimen of Phaedrolosaurus by Dong Zhiming in 1973. |
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Bibliography
- Xu, Xing; Norell, Mark A; Kuang, Xuewen; Wang, Xiaolin; Zhao, Qi & Jia, Chengkai (7 October 2004). "Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids." Nature, 431: 680-684. doi:10.1038/nature02855 PMID 15470426
- Xu, Xing; Clark, James M; Forster, Catherine A; Norell, Mark A; Erickson, Gregory M; Eberth, David A; Jia, Chengkai & Zhao, Qi (9 February 2006). "A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China." Nautre, 9: 715-718. doi:10.1038/nature04511
- Xu, Xing; Tan, Qingwei; Wang, Jianmin; Zhao, Xijin & Tan, Lin (14 June 2007). "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China." Nature, 447: 844-847. doi:10.1038/nature05849
- Xu, Xing; Zheng, Xiaoting & You, Hailu (20 January 2009). "A new feather type in a nonavian theropod and the early evolution of feathers." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (3): 832-834. doi:10.1073/pnas.0810055106 PMID 19139401
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