What dinosaurs did Xu Xing discover?
Xu Xing (Chinese: 徐星; pinyin: Xú Xīng; born 1969) is a Chinese paleontologist who has named more dinosaurs than any other living paleontologist. Such dinosaurs include the Jurassic ceratopsian Yinlong, the Jurassic tyrannosauroid Guanlong, the large oviraptorosaur Gigantoraptor, and the troodontid Mei.
What kind of dinosaur was found in China?
Scientists named the species Silutitan sinensis or “silu” and Hamititan xinjiangensis named for where the fossil specimen was found in Xinjiang. They have said that “silu” means the “Silk Road” in Chinese Mandarin pinyin, “in memory the great trade routes which connected the East and West”.
When was Xu Xing born?
1969
Xu Xing is a famed Chinese paleontologist who has named many dinosaurs, including the new Jurassic Ceratopsian Yinlong, the feathered relative of Tyrannosaurus, Guanlong, the unusual Gigantoraptor, and the “sleeping dragon” Mei. He was born in Xin Jiang, China, in 1969.
In what year did a Chinese farmer revolutionize our understanding of dinosaurs?
Dong participated in his first field expedition in 1963, aged 26, when he was part of a seven-person team sent by the IVPP to a site 180 miles outside Ürümqi, Xinjiang. On this expedition, Dong discovered fossils of a sauropod dinosaur.
Was a frozen dragon found?
Fossil scientists have found a new type of pterosaur, nicknamed “frozen dragon”, in an area of Canada in Alberta. They have been described as the “frozen dragon of the north winds”.
In what time period did Sinosauropteryx live?
130 million years ago – 122.46 million years ago (Barremian – Aptian)
Sinosauropteryx/Lived
Is there any dinosaur eggs left?
Granger finally said, ‘No dinosaur eggs have ever been found, but the reptile probably did lay eggs. Paleontologists presumed that the fossil eggs at Flaming Cliffs were laid by Protoceratops because it was the most common dinosaur at the locality where the eggs were found.
How tall is Sinosauropteryx?
Sinosauropteryx were small ground dwelling carnivores of the rainforest. They grew up to 1 m in length from nose to tail and ca 30 cm tall, and lived in what is now northeastern China, during the early Cretaceous period.