Date of Birth: July, 1969
Place of Birth: Xinjiang, China
Parents: ?
Spouse: Zhou Zhongxia
Date of extinction : n/a
Place of extinction : n/a
Legacy: Many Chinese dinosaurs, and research into dinosaur, bird evolution and the origin of feathers
Xu Xing
This is a Chinese name: the family name or surname (in this case "Xu") is always listed first.
Bibliography
• Xu X, Norell MA, Kuang X, Wang X-L, Zhao Q and Jia C-K (2004) "Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids". Nature, 431: 680-684.
• Xu X (2006) "Feathered dinosaurs from China and the evolution of major avian characters". Integrative zoology, 1(1): 4-11.
• Xu Xing, Zheng X-T and You H-L (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.
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