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.

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			Junior synonym of Yanornis.	Beipiaosaurus Chaoyangsaurus Erliansaurus Graciliraptor Guanlong Incisivosaurus Liaoceratops Liaoningosaurus Limusaurus Lingwulong Linheraptor Nanyangosaurus Neimongosaurus Sinornithosaurus Yinlong Yixianosaurus Yutyrannus Zhuchengceratops
Beipiaosaurus	1999	Valid taxon.	Tang Z.
Chaoyangsaurus	1999	Valid taxon.	Zhao Xijin	Cheng Z.
Dilong	2004	Valid taxon.	Mark Norell Kuang	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
Gigantoraptor	2007	Valid taxon.	Tan Q. Wang J.	Zhao Xijin Tan L.
Graciliraptor	2004	Valid taxon.
Guanlong	2006	Valid taxon.	C. Forster Mark Norell	Greg Erickson D. Eberth Jia C. Zhao Q.
Hongshanosaurus	2003	Valid taxon.
Incisivosaurus	2000	Valid taxon.	Cheng Y.	Chang C.
Jeholosaurus	2000	Valid taxon.
Jinzhousaurus	2001	Valid taxon.
Liaoceratops	2002	Valid taxon.
Liaoningosaurus	2001	Valid taxon.
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
Nanyangosaurus	2000	Valid taxon.	Zhao Lu Huang	Li Dong
Neimongosaurus	2001	Valid taxon.	Zhang X. Paul Sereno	Kwang Tan
Pedopenna	2005	Valid taxon.
Sinornithosaurus	1999	Valid taxon.
Sinovenator	2002	Valid taxon.	Mark Norell
Sinusonasus	2004	Valid taxon.
Sonidosaurus	2006	Valid taxon.	Zhang X. Tan Q.	Zhao Xijin Tan L.
Xinjiangovenator	2005	Valid taxon.			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	Mark Norell Mo J.
Yixianosaurus	2003	Valid taxon.
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. 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.

References[]

External links[]

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