Zhao Xijin

Zhao Xijin (Chinese赵喜 进/赵喜 进, Pinyin Zhao Xǐjìn, W.-G. Chao Hsi -chin, * 1935 † 21 July 2012) was a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist who dealt with dinosaurs. He was a professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zhao is the surname. He is also Chao abbreviated and cited.

He is known by many finds and original descriptions. Many of which he had introduced in the 1980s, genera and species (published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 1983 - only in a list - and 1985 in an anthology ) but are unsure and only published incomplete ( nouns nuda ). Among the species named by him are:

  • Chaoyangsaurus ( with Cheng and Xu Xing 1999)
  • Chinshakiangosaurus (Re- Evalutation with other 2007 )
  • Dachongosaurus (1985)
  • Damalasaurus (1986)
  • Klamelisaurus (1993)
  • Kunmingosaurus (1986)
  • Lancangjiangosaurus (1985)
  • Megacervixosaurus (1983)
  • Microdontosaurus (1983)
  • Monkonosaurus (1990)
  • Monolophosaurus ( with Philip J. Currie, 1994)
  • Ngexisaurus (1983)
  • Sangonghesaurus (1983)
  • Sinraptor ( with Philip J. Currie, 1993)
  • Oshanosaurus (1986)
  • Xuanhuasaurus (1986)
  • And the Mamenchisauridae Family ( 1972 Young Chung Chien )

He collaborated among others with Philip Currie and Paul Sereno. With Sereno he dug in 2001 in the Gobi Desert, the fossils of a herd of 25 young ostrich -like, feathered Sinornithomimus from. The Fund circumstances after the animals were stuck in the mud, as if to drink water on a lake. The finds show that the young of this dinosaur were left to themselves in their own herd. Sereno of the University of Chicago also planned in 2004 with Zhao to visit a reference from Tibet again in the Zhao Xijin the late 1970s, many dinosaurs had dug, which were the basis of his dissertation - but he was not since returned there and held the location secret.

In 2008 he was in Zhucheng ( since the 1960s are known for dinosaur fossils ) one of the largest dinosaur sites at all (over 3000 bone finds of Ceratopsiern, Hadrosauriern, ankylosauruses ). They date from the turn of Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, when dinosaurs became extinct with many other taxa.

Writings

  • Phylogeny and evolutionary stages of Dinosauria, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 28, 1983, 295-306, pdf
  • The fossil vertebrates and stratigraphy of the mesozoic in northern Xinjiang, reports on the Paleontological Expedition to Xinjiang, Memoirs Institute Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, A 15, 1980, 1-120
  • The reptilian fauna of the Jurassic in China, Wang, Cheng Wang (ed.) The Jurassic System in China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing 1985
  • With other distribution in Dinosauria Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria, University of California Press, 2nd Edition 2004
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