Xu Xing (paleontologist)

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Xu.

Xu Xing

Chinese| 徐星
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Xú Xīng
Wade–Giles| Hsü2 Hsing1
IPA| [ɕŭ ɕíŋ]

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.

## Biography[edit]

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]

## Genera described by Xu Xing[edit]

Name  | Year  | Status  | Coauthor(s)  | Notes  | Images

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Archaeovolans

2002

| Junior synonym |

* Stephen Czerkas

|  |

Junior synonym of Yanornis.

Beipiaosaurus

1999

| Valid taxon.  |

* Tang Z.

* Wang Xiaolin

|  |

Chaoyangsaurus

1999

| Valid taxon.  |

* Zhao Xijin

* Cheng Z.

|  |

Dilong

2004

| Valid taxon.  |

* Mark Norell
* Kuang Xuewen
* Wang Xiaolin

* Zhao Qi
* Jia Chengkai

Erliansaurus

2002

| Valid taxon.  |

* Zhang Z.
* Paul Sereno
* Zhao Xijin

* Kuang X.
* Han J.
* Tan L.

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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.

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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

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Lingwulong

2018

| Valid taxon.  |

* Upchurch, P.
* Mannion, P.
* Barrett, P.
* Regalado-Fernandez, O.

* Ma, J.
* Liu, H.
* Mo, J.

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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

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Mei long

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

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Sinornithosaurus

1999

| Valid taxon.  |

* Wang Xiaolin

* Wu Xiao-Chun

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Sinovenator

2002

| Valid taxon.  |

* Mark Norell
* Peter Makovicky

* Wang Xiaolin
* Wu Xiao-Chun

Sinusonasus

2004

| Valid taxon.  |

* Wang Xiaolin

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Sonidosaurus

2006

| Valid taxon.  |

* Zhang X.
* Tan Q.

* Zhao Xijin
* Tan L.

Xinjiangovenator

2005

| Valid taxon.  |

* Oliver Rauhut

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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

2015

| Valid taxon.  |

* Zheng Xiaoting
* Corwin Sullivan
* Wang Xiaoli
* Xing Lida
* Wang Yan

* Zhang Xiaomei
* Jingmai O'Connor
* Zhang Fucheng
* Pan Yanhong

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Yinlong

2006

| Valid taxon.  |

* C. Forster
* James M. Clark

* Mark Norell
* Mo J.

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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

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Zhuchengceratops

2010

| Valid taxon.  |

* Kebai Wang
* Xijin Zhao

* Corwin Sullivan
* Shuqing Chen

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## Selected publications[edit]

* 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.

## See also[edit]

* Category:Taxa named by Xu Xing

## References[edit]

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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.
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[edit]

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

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