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Xu Xing is a famed Chinese
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 paleontologist
Paleontology
Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

 who has named many dinosaurs, including the Jurassic
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to  Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...

 ceratopsia
Ceratopsia
Ceratopsia or Ceratopia is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic. The earliest known ceratopsian, Yinlong downsi, lived between 161.2 and 155.7...

n Yinlong
Yinlong
Yinlong is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of central Asia. It was a small, primarily bipedal herbivore, approximately 1.2 meters long...

, the Jurassic tyrannosauroid
Tyrannosauroidea
Tyrannosauroidea is a superfamily of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that includes the family Tyrannosauridae as well as more basal relatives. Tyrannosauroids lived on the Laurasian supercontinent beginning in the Jurassic Period...

 Guanlong
Guanlong
Guanlong was a genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur, one of the earliest known examples of the lineage.-Description and discovery:...

, the large oviraptorosaur
Oviraptorosauria
Oviraptorosaurs are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America. They are distinct for their characteristically short, beaked, parrot - like skulls, with or without bony crests atop the head...

 Gigantoraptor
Gigantoraptor
Gigantoraptor is a genus of giant oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. It was discovered in 2005 in the Iren Dabasu Formation, Erlian basin, in Inner Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:...

, and the troodontid
Troodontidae
Troodontidae is a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs. During most of the 20th century, troodontid fossils were few and scrappy and they have therefore been allied, at various times, with many dinosaurian lineages...

 Mei
Mei (dinosaur)
Mei is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists in Liaoning, China in 2004. Mei lived during the Early Cretaceous Period. Its binomial name, Mei long means sleeping dragon...

. He was born in Xinjiang
Xinjiang
Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

, China, in 1969
1969 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...

. A graduate from the department of geology of Peking University
Peking University
Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida , is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the...

, he is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China is a prominent research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and pterosaurand cat poo specimens...

 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...

 in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

.

Xu Xing is also a writer and a cinema director.

Genera described by Xu Xing

Name Year Status Coauthor(s) Notes Images
  • Archaeovolans
  • 2002
    2002 in paleontology
    -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado...

    .
  • Junior synonym.
  • Stephen Czerkas

  • Junior synonym of Yanornis
    Yanornis
    Yanornis is an extinct genus of omnivorous Early Cretaceous birds, thought to be closely related to the common ancestor of all modern birds. One species, Yanornis martini,...

    .
    • Beipiaosaurus
      Beipiaosaurus
      Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.The exact classification of therizinosaurs had in the past been hotly debated, since their prosauropod-like teeth and body structure indicate that they were generally herbivorous, unlike typical...

  • 1999
    1999 in paleontology
    -Insects:-Newly named taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Tang Z.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Chaoyangsaurus
    Chaoyangsaurus
    Chaoyangsaurus was a marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China...

  • 1999
    1999 in paleontology
    -Insects:-Newly named taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin is a Chinese paleontologist. He is notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He is currently a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.-Career:...

  • Cheng Z.
  • Dilong
    Dilong (dinosaur)
    Dilong is a genus of small tyrannosauroid dinosaur. The only species is Dilong paradoxus. It is from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation near Lujiatun, Beipiao, in the western Liaoning province of China. It lived about 130 million years ago...

  • 2004
    2004 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-newly named:-newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Mark Norell
  • Kuang
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Zhao Q.
  • Jia C.
  • Erliansaurus
    Erliansaurus
    Erliansaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China.A fossil of Erliansaurus was found near Sanhangobi in Inner-Mongolia. The type species, Erliansaurus bellamanus, was described by Xu Xing, Zhang Xiaohong, Paul Sereno, Zhao Xijin, Kuang Xuewen, Han Jun...

  • 2002
    2002 in paleontology
    -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhang Z.
  • Paul Sereno
    Paul Sereno
    Paul Callistus Sereno is an American paleontologist from the University of Chicago who discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco, and Niger...

  • Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin is a Chinese paleontologist. He is notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He is currently a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.-Career:...

  • Kuang X.
  • Han J.
  • Tan L.
  • Eshanosaurus
    Eshanosaurus
    Eshanosaurus is a possible genus of therizinosaurian dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period. It is known only from a partial lower jawbone. The fossil was found in China...

  • 2001
    2001 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named bony fishes:-Newly named amphibians:-Newly named turtles:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named sphenodonts:-Newly named basal archosauromorphs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin is a Chinese paleontologist. He is notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He is currently a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.-Career:...

  • James M. Clark
  • Gigantoraptor
    Gigantoraptor
    Gigantoraptor is a genus of giant oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. It was discovered in 2005 in the Iren Dabasu Formation, Erlian basin, in Inner Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:...

  • 2007
    2007 in paleontology
    -newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named non-avian dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-Newly named birds:-New papers:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Tan Q.
  • Wang J.
  • Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin is a Chinese paleontologist. He is notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He is currently a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.-Career:...

  • Tan L.
  • Graciliraptor
    Graciliraptor
    Graciliraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. It is a microraptorine dromaeosaurid....

  • 2004
    2004 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-newly named:-newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Guanlong
    Guanlong
    Guanlong was a genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur, one of the earliest known examples of the lineage.-Description and discovery:...

  • 2006
    2006 in paleontology
    -Insects:-Tetrapodomorphs:-Newly named temnospondylians:-Newly named amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named squamates:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • James M. Clark
  • C. Forster
  • Mark Norell
  • G. Erickson
  • D. Eberth
  • Jia C.
  • Zhao Q.
  • Hongshanosaurus
    Hongshanosaurus
    Hongshanosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of eastern Asia. Although two skulls are the only fossil material described, comparisons with close relatives suggest it was a small, bipedal herbivore with a bony beak on the end of both upper and...

  • 2003
    2003 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-newly named:-Conifers:-Angiosperms:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • You Hailu
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Incisivosaurus
    Incisivosaurus
    Incisivosaurus is a genus of small, probably herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now the People's Republic of China...

  • 2000
    2002 in paleontology
    -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Cheng Y.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Chang C.
  • Jeholosaurus
    Jeholosaurus
    Jeholosaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It is thought to have been a small ornithopod presumably related to the hypsilophodonts, and an herbivore. Although the back teeth are like those of a plant eater, the front premaxillary teeth are sharp and pointed...

  • 2000
    2000 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named placoderms:-Amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • You Hailu
  • Jinzhousaurus
    Jinzhousaurus
    Jinzhousaurus is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous of China.The type species is Jinzhousaurus yangi. The generic name refers to the town Jinzhou. The specific name honours Yang Zhongjian as the founder of Chinese paleontology...

  • 2001
    2001 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named bony fishes:-Newly named amphibians:-Newly named turtles:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named sphenodonts:-Newly named basal archosauromorphs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Liaoceratops
    Liaoceratops
    Liaoceratops, meaning "Liao Horned Face", is a ceratopsian dinosaur believed to be an early relative of the horned ceratopsids. It lived in the early Cretaceous, some 130 million years ago. It was discovered in China by a team of American and Chinese scientists...

  • 2002
    2002 in paleontology
    -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Liaoningosaurus
    Liaoningosaurus
    Liaoningosaurus is a very unusual ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous. The holotype IVPP V12560 , an essentially complete juvenile skeleton compressed on a slab, was collected from the Yixian Formation of Liaoxi, Yixian County, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China.The type species...

  • 2001
    2001 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named bony fishes:-Newly named amphibians:-Newly named turtles:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named sphenodonts:-Newly named basal archosauromorphs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • You Hailu
  • Linheraptor
    Linheraptor
    Linheraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur which lived in what is now China in the Late Cretaceous. It was named by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010, and contains the species Linheraptor exquisitus. This bird-like dinosaur was less than 2 m long and was found in Inner Mongolia...

  • 2010
    2010 in paleontology
    -Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Choinere, J.
  • Pittman, M.
  • Tan, Q.
  • Xiao, D.
  • Li, Z.
  • Tan, L.
  • Clark, J.
  • Norell, M.
  • Hone, D.W.E.
  • Sullivan
  • Zhuchengceratops
    Zhuchengceratops
    Zhuchengceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a derived leptoceratopsid ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kugou, Zhucheng County, China. It is known from a partial articulated skeleton including vertebrae, ribs, teeth, and parts of...

  • 2010
    2010 in paleontology
    -Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Kebai Wang
  • Xijin Zhao
  • Corwin Sullivan
  • Shuqing Chen
  • Mei
    Mei (dinosaur)
    Mei is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists in Liaoning, China in 2004. Mei lived during the Early Cretaceous Period. Its binomial name, Mei long means sleeping dragon...

  • 2004
    2004 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-newly named:-newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Mark Norell
  • Microraptor
    Microraptor
    Microraptor is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China...

  • 2000
    2000 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named placoderms:-Amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhou Zhonghe
    Zhou Zhonghe
    Zhou Zhonghe is a Chinese palaeontologist. He described the ancient bird Confuciusornis.Zhou studied at the University of Nanjing and then worked at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.- External links :* - Chinese* - Chinese...

  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Nanyangosaurus
    Nanyangosaurus
    Nanyangosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont which lived in the area of present-day China....

  • 2000
    2000 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named placoderms:-Amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhao
  • Lu
  • Huang
  • Li
  • Dong
  • Neimongosaurus
    Neimongosaurus
    Neimongosaurus is a genus of herbivorous therizinosaur theropod dinosaur known from the Upper Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China....

  • 2001
    2001 in paleontology
    -Newly named insects:-Newly named bony fishes:-Newly named amphibians:-Newly named turtles:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named sphenodonts:-Newly named basal archosauromorphs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhang X.
  • Paul Sereno
    Paul Sereno
    Paul Callistus Sereno is an American paleontologist from the University of Chicago who discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco, and Niger...

  • Kwang
  • Tan
  • Pedopenna
    Pedopenna
    Pedopenna is a genus of small, feathered, maniraptoran dinosaur from the Daohugou Beds in China. It is possibly older than Archaeopteryx, though the age of the Daohugou Beds where it was found is debated...

  • 2005
    2005 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-New taxa:-Xiphosurans:* Fossils of Lunataspis, the earliest known xiphosuran, are discovered in Canada. It was not given a formal description until 2008, however.-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhang Fucheng
  • Sinornithosaurus
    Sinornithosaurus
    Sinornithosaurus is a genus of feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of the Yixian Formation in what is now China. It was the fifth non–avian feathered dinosaur genus discovered by 1999...

  • 1999
    1999 in paleontology
    -Insects:-Newly named taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Wu Xiao-Chun
  • Sinovenator
    Sinovenator
    Sinovenator is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from China. It is from the early Cretaceous Period. Two fossils were originally found in the Lujiatun Beds of the lower Yixian Formation in China, about 125 million years ago during the Aptian age.The type species, Sinovenator changii, was...

  • 2002
    2002 in paleontology
    -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Mark Norell
  • Peter Makovicky
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Wu Xiao-Chun
  • Sinusonasus
    Sinusonasus
    Sinusonasus is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period, recovered from the Yixian Formation. This dinosaur lived in what is now the Liaoning Province of China. Sinusonasus was a theropod, specifically a troodontid dinosaur...

  • 2004
    2004 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-newly named:-newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
  • Sonidosaurus
    Sonidosaurus
    Sonidosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis, was described by Xu, Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006. It was a small titanosaur, about 9 meters long...

  • 2006
    2006 in paleontology
    -Insects:-Tetrapodomorphs:-Newly named temnospondylians:-Newly named amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named squamates:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Zhang X.
  • Tan Q.
  • Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin
    Zhao Xijin is a Chinese paleontologist. He is notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He is currently a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.-Career:...

  • Tan L.
  • Xinjiangovenator
    Xinjiangovenator
    Xinjiangovenator is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur of the Valanginian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous period. Its remains were found in the Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China, and were first described by Dong Zhiming...

  • 2005
    2005 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-New taxa:-Xiphosurans:* Fossils of Lunataspis, the earliest known xiphosuran, are discovered in Canada. It was not given a formal description until 2008, however.-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Oliver Rauhut

  • Previously described as a specimen of Phaedrolosaurus
    Phaedrolosaurus
    Phaedrolosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur, based on a single tooth possibly from the Valanginian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmugin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China. This tooth, IVPP V 4024-1, was described by Dong Zhiming as like those of Deinonychus, albeit thicker, shorter, and...

    by Dong Zhiming
    Dong Zhiming
    Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...

     in 1973.
    • Yinlong
      Yinlong
      Yinlong is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of central Asia. It was a small, primarily bipedal herbivore, approximately 1.2 meters long...

  • 2006
    2006 in paleontology
    -Insects:-Tetrapodomorphs:-Newly named temnospondylians:-Newly named amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named squamates:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • C. Forster
  • James M. Clark
  • Mark Norell
  • Mo J.
  • Xixianykus
    Xixianykus
    Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of China. It was discovered in Xixia County in Henan, China...

  • 2010
    2010 in paleontology
    -Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • De-You Wang
  • Corwin Sullivan
  • David W. E. Hone
  • Feng-Lu Han
  • Rong-Hao Yan
  • Fu-Ming Du
  • Yixianosaurus
    Yixianosaurus
    Yixianosaurus is a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous of China.The type species, Yixianosaurus longimanus, was formally named and described by Xu Xing and Wang Xiaolin in 2003. Its partial skeleton was discovered in 2001, in Liaoning at Wangjiagou in northeastern China....

  • 2003
    2003 in paleontology
    -New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-newly named:-Conifers:-Angiosperms:...

    .
  • Valid taxon.
  • Wang Xiaolin
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