Xu Xing (paleontologist)

Xu Xing (Chinese: 徐星; pinyin: Xú Xīng; born 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.

Xu Xing
Chinese	徐星
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xú Xīng [ɕŭ ɕíŋ] Wade–Giles Hsü^2 Hsing^1

Biography

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 a physicist. However, he was assigned to the department of geology as the university's department of physics did not have any admission quota in Xinjiang.[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]

Genera described by Xu Xing

Name	Year	Status	Coauthor(s)		Notes	Images
Archaeovolans	2002	Junior synonym	Stephen Czerkas		Junior synonym of Yanornis.	Beipiaosaurus Chaoyangsaurus Erliansaurus Graciliraptor Guanlong Incisivosaurus Liaoceratops Liaoningosaurus Limusaurus Lingwulong Linheraptor Meilong Nanyangosaurus Neimongosaurus Sinornithosaurus Yinlong Yixianosaurus Yutyrannus Zhuchengceratops
Beipiaosaurus	1999	Valid taxon.	Tang Z.	Wang Xiaolin
Chaoyangsaurus	1999	Valid taxon.	Zhao Xijin	Cheng Z.
Dilong	2004	Valid taxon.	Mark Norell Kuang Wang Xiaolin	Zhao Q. Jia C.
Erliansaurus	2002	Valid taxon.	Zhang Z. Paul Sereno Zhao Xijin	Kuang X. Han J. Tan L.
Eshanosaurus	2001	Valid taxon.	Zhao Xijin	James M. Clark
Gigantoraptor	2007	Valid taxon.	Tan Q. Wang J.	Zhao Xijin Tan L.
Graciliraptor	2004	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin
Guanlong	2006	Valid taxon.	James M. Clark C. Forster Mark Norell	Greg Erickson D. Eberth Jia C. Zhao Q.
Hongshanosaurus	2003	Valid taxon.	You Hailu	Wang Xiaolin
Incisivosaurus	2000	Valid taxon.	Cheng Y. Wang Xiaolin	Chang C.
Jeholosaurus	2000	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin	You Hailu
Jinzhousaurus	2001	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin
Liaoceratops	2002	Valid taxon.
Liaoningosaurus	2001	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin	You Hailu
Limusaurus	2009	Valid taxon.	James M. Clark Jinyou Mo Jonah Choiniere Catherine A. Forster Gregory M. Erickson David W. E. Hone Corwin Sullivan	David A. Eberth Sterling Nesbitt Qi Zhao Rene Hernandez Cheng-kai Jia Feng-lu Han Yu Guo
Lingwulong	2018	Valid taxon.	Upchurch, P. Mannion, P. Barrett, P. Regalado-Fernandez, O.	Ma, J. Liu, H. Mo, J.
Linheraptor	2010	Valid taxon.	Choinere, J. Pittman, M. Tan, Q. Xiao, D. Li, Z.	Tan, L. Clark, J. Norell, M. Hone, D.W.E. Sullivan
Mei	2004	Valid taxon.	Mark Norell
Microraptor	2000	Valid taxon.	Zhou Zhonghe	Wang Xiaolin
Nanyangosaurus	2000	Valid taxon.	Zhao Lu Huang	Li Dong
Neimongosaurus	2001	Valid taxon.	Zhang X. Paul Sereno	Kwang Tan
Pedopenna	2005	Valid taxon.	Zhang Fucheng
Sinornithosaurus	1999	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin	Wu Xiao-Chun
Sinovenator	2002	Valid taxon.	Mark Norell Peter Makovicky	Wang Xiaolin Wu Xiao-Chun
Sinusonasus	2004	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin
Sonidosaurus	2006	Valid taxon.	Zhang X. Tan Q.	Zhao Xijin Tan L.
Xinjiangovenator	2005	Valid taxon.	Oliver Rauhut		Previously described as a specimen of Phaedrolosaurus by Dong Zhiming in 1973.
Xixianykus	2010	Valid taxon.	De-You Wang Corwin Sullivan David W. E. Hone	Feng-Lu Han Rong-Hao Yan Fu-Ming Du
Yinlong	2006	Valid taxon.	C. Forster James M. Clark	Mark Norell Mo J.
Yixianosaurus	2003	Valid taxon.	Wang Xiaolin
Yutyrannus	2012	Valid taxon.	Kebai Wang Ke Zhang Qingyu Ma Lida Xing	Corwin Sullivan Dongyu Hu Shuqing Cheng Shuo Wang
Zhuchengceratops	2010	Valid taxon.	Kebai Wang Xijin Zhao	Corwin Sullivan Shuqing Chen

Selected publications

• Xu, Xing; Norell, Mark A; et al. (2004). "Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids" (PDF). Nature. 431 (7009): 680–684. doi:10.1038/nature02855. PMID 15470426.
• 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.
• Xu, Xing; et al. (2007). "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China" (PDF). Nature. 447: 844–847. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..844X. doi:10.1038/nature05849. PMID 17565365.
• 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. doi:10.1038/nature10906. PMID 22481363. 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.

References

1. Hunt, Katie; Stout, Kristie Lu; Kwok, Jason; Yang, Yuli; Lu, Shen. "China's golden age of paleontology". CNN. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
2. 張晶晶 (August 1, 2014). "徐星：穿越時光恐龍緣". 中國科學報 (in Chinese).
3. MacLeod, Calum (9 June 2008). "Forget Indiana Jones: Dinosaur hunter Xu digs it". USA Today.
4. 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.

External links

• Famous Expert Forum ( 2008-14): Research Fellow Xu Xing’s Academic Report