Xu_Xing_(paleontologist)
Xu Xing (paleontologist)
Chinese paleontologist (born 1969)
Xu Xing (Chinese: 徐星; pinyin: Xú Xīng; born July 1969) 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.
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Xing was born in Xinjiang, China, in 1969. A graduate from the department of geology of Peking University, he is currently a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He had originally planned to become an economist. However, he was assigned to the department of geology by the Chinese authorities.[2] He graduated in 1995, and claims inspiration from Roy Chapman Andrews.[3]
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.[4]
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- Xu, Xing; Norell, Mark A; et al. (2004). "Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids" (PDF). Nature. 431 (7009): 680–684. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..680X. doi:10.1038/nature02855. PMID 15470426. S2CID 4381777. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-02.
- Xu, Xing; Clark, James M; Forster, Catherine A; et al. (2006). "A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China" (PDF). Nature. 9 (7077): 715–718. Bibcode:2006Natur.439..715X. doi:10.1038/nature04511. PMID 16467836. S2CID 4424849.
- Xu, Xing; et al. (2007). "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China" (PDF). Nature. 447 (7146): 844–847. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..844X. doi:10.1038/nature05849. PMID 17565365. S2CID 6649123.
- Xu, Xing; et al. (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. PMC 2630069. PMID 19139401.
- Xu, X.; et al. (2012). "A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China" (PDF). Nature. 484 (7392): 92–95. Bibcode:2012Natur.484...92X. doi:10.1038/nature10906. PMID 22481363. S2CID 29689629. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 17, 2012.
- Xu, Xing; et al. (2015). "A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings". Nature. 521 (7550): 70–73. Bibcode:2015Natur.521...70X. doi:10.1038/nature14423. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 25924069. S2CID 205243599.
- Hunt, Katie; Stout, Kristie Lu; Kwok, Jason; Yang, Yuli; Lu, Shen. "China's golden age of paleontology". CNN. Archived from the original on 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- 張晶晶 (August 1, 2014). "徐星：穿越時光恐龍緣". 中國科學報 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on September 2, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- MacLeod, Calum (9 June 2008). "Forget Indiana Jones: Dinosaur hunter Xu digs it". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
- Xu, Xing (2006). "Feathered dinosaurs from China and the evolution of major avian characters". Integrative Zoology. 1 (1): 4–11. doi:10.1111/j.1749-4877.2006.00004.x. PMID 21395983.