Zhao Xijin
Zhao Xijin (赵喜进) 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.[1]
Biography
Career
Paul Sereno and Xijin went on a dinosaur fossil hunt in 2005 to Tibet to look for a site that Xijin had found 27 years prior. Before this hunt, in 2001, they had been engaged in a dig in the Gobi Desert. This involved a rock quarry that led them to finding 25 skeletons of the species Sinornithomimus dongi.[2][3]
In 2008, Xijin was involved in and in charge of a dig in Zhucheng that consisted of digging out a "980 ft-long pit". The site has unearthed more than 7,600 fossils through Xijin's work.[4][5] It is believed to be the largest such site in the world. The majority of the fossils found appeared to be from the Late Cretaceous period.[6]
List of dinosaurs named
- Chaoyangsaurus (1983)
- Chinshakiangosaurus (1986)
- Dachongosaurus (1986)
- Damalasaurus (1986)
- Klamelisaurus (1993)
- Kunmingosaurus (1986)
- Lancangjiangosaurus (1986)
- Megacervixosaurus (1983)
- Microdontosaurus (1983)
- Monkonosaurus (1990)
- Monolophosaurus (with P. Currie, 1994)
- Ngexisaurus (1983)
- Sangonghesaurus (1983)
- Sinraptor (with P. Currie, 1993)
- Oshanosaurus (1986)
- Xuanhuasaurus (1986)
Besides the above, Zhao Xijin also named the family Mamenchisauridae (with Young Chung Chien, 1972).
References
- ↑ "100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Rib Found in Beijing", Chicago Tribune, July 8, 1993
- ↑ "Dinosasur hunter heads for top of world", United Press International, December 17, 2004
- ↑ "Young dinos lived and died together", The Hindu, March 16, 2009
- ↑ Moore, Malcolm, "Dinosaur fossils found in China are world's largest collection", The Telegraph, December 31, 2008
- ↑ Wray, James, "In Pictures: 'China Dinosaur Fossils'", Monsters and Critics, October 13, 2009
- ↑ "Shandong dinosaur fossil field `world`s largest`", Mathaba, January 3, 2009