Zhao Xijin

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

Zhao is the last name. It is also abbreviated and quoted Chao.

He is known through numerous finds and initial descriptions . Many of the genera and species introduced by him in the 1980s (published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 1983 - only in a list - and 1985 in an anthology) are, however, uncertain and published only incompletely ( Nomina nuda ). Among the genera named by him are:

He worked with Philip Currie and Paul Sereno , among others . In 2001 he and Sereno unearthed the fossils of a herd of 25 young ostrich-like, feathery Sinornithomimus in the Gobi desert . According to the circumstances of the find, the animals got stuck in the mud when they tried to drink water by a lake. The findings show that the young of this type of dinosaur were left to their own devices in their own herd. Sereno of the University of Chicago also planned to visit a site in Tibet with Zhao again in 2004, where Zhao Xijin had unearthed many dinosaurs in the late 1970s that were the basis of his dissertation - but he had not returned and kept it Place secret.

In 2008 he found one of the largest dinosaur sites ever at Zhucheng (known for being dinosaur fossils since the 1960s) (over 3000 bones from ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs). They date from the turn of the Cretaceous-Tertiary, when the dinosaurs became extinct along with many other taxa.

Fonts

  • 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 , in Wang, Cheng, Wang (Eds.) The Jurassic System in China , Geological Publishing House, Beijing 1985
  • with other Dinosauria Distribution in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology ( Memento from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A report by Zhao The mesozoic vertebrate remains of Xizang (Tibet) , The Series of the Scientific Expeditions to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Paleontology of Xizang, 2, 1983, 1-200 was not published
  3. ^ Dinosaur mailing list, Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1999
  4. ↑ Mickey Mortimer's blog 2011
  5. ↑ China Daily 2009 on the discovery of Sereno and Zhao, with photo of the two
  6. ↑ The site was found in 1978 by a Chinese geologist and excavations began by a Sino-Japanese expedition around 1998, with complete recovery by the expedition of Sereno and Zhao in 2001
  7. ^ Dinosaur hunter heads for top of the world, UPI, December 17, 2004
  8. ↑ Steve Jackson China finds major Dinosaur site , BBC
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhao is the family name here, Xijin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Zhao Xijin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 趙喜 進 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese vertebrate paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2012