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Lida Xing is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Paleontology. Their works cover various subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Global and Planetary Change. The main topics of their research include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological formations and processes, Fossil Insects in Amber, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Their research output includes publications in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Historical Biology
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Biosis Biological Systems
  • Journal of Palaeogeography
  • Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Some of Lida Xing's recent papers are:

  • Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding "Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data": Myanmar amber (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • Zircon U Pb age constraints on the mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber biota in northern Myanmar (2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding "Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data": the importance of private collections (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • An exquisitely preserved in-ovo theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures (2021, iScience)
  • Facile synthesis of nanocellulose-based Cu2O/Ag heterostructure as a surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate for trace dye detection (2022, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lida Xing include:

  • Martin G. Lockley
  • Hendrik Klein
  • W. Scott Persons
  • Anthony Romilio
  • Donghao Wang

Best Publications

  • A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data

    Peter L. Falkingham;Karl T. Bates;Marco Avanzini;Matthew Bennett

  • Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present

    Lorenzo Marchetti;Matteo Belvedere;Sebastian Voigt;Hendrik Klein

  • A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China

    Xing Xu;Kebai Wang;Ke Zhang;Qingyu Ma

  • A Review of the Tetrapod Track Record in China, with Special Reference to Type Ichnospecies: Implications for Ichnotaxonomy and Paleobiology

    Martin G. Lockley;LI Jianjun;LI Rihui;Masaki Matsukawa

  • A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber

    Lida Xing;Ryan C. McKellar;Xing Xu;Gang Li

  • Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

    Lida Xing;Ryan C McKellar;Min Wang;Ming Bai

  • Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur with transitional features.

    Xing Xu;Philip Currie;Michael Pittman;Lida Xing

  • Diverse dinosaur ichnoassemblages from the Lower Cretaceous Dasheng Group in the Yishu fault zone, Shandong Province, China

    Lida Xing;Martin G. Lockley;Daniel Marty;Hendrik Klein

  • A review of large Cretaceous ornithopod tracks, with special reference to their ichnotaxonomy

    Martin G. Lockley;Lida Xing;Jeremy A. F. Lockwood;Stuart Pond

  • Early cretaceous bird-dominated and dinosaur footprint assemblages from the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China

    Li-Da Xing;Li-Da Xing;Jerald D. Harris;Cheng-Kai Jia;Zheng-Jiang Luo

  • Early Cretaceous dinosaur and other tetrapod tracks of southwestern China

    Lida Xing;Martin G. Lockley

  • Diverse sauropod-, theropod-, and ornithopod-track assemblages and a new ichnotaxon Siamopodus xui ichnosp. nov. from the Feitianshan Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Sichuan Province, southwest China

    Lida Xing;Martin G. Lockley;Jianping Zhang;Hendrik Klein

  • Zircon U Pb age constraints on the mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber biota in northern Myanmar

    Lida Xing;Liang Qiu;Liang Qiu

  • The non-avian theropod track Jialingpus from the Cretaceous of the Ordos Basin, China, with a revision of the type material: Implications for ichnotaxonomy and trackmaker morphology

    Li Da Xing;Martin G. Lockley;Hendrik Klein;Gerard D. Gierliński

  • The Earliest Known Deinonychosaur Tracks from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary in Hebei Province, China

    Li-Da Xing;Jerald D Harris;Deng-Hai Sun;Hui-Qiang Zhao

  • Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: Myanmar amber

    Joachim T. Haug;Dany Azar;Andrew Ross;Jacek Szwedo

  • A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar

    Lida Xing;Michael W. Caldwell;Rui Chen;Randall L. Nydam

  • A new early cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage and the first definite non-avian theropod swim trackway from China

    LiDa Xing;LiDa Xing;Martin G. Lockley;JianPing Zhang;Andrew R. C. Milner

  • First record of Deltapodus tracks from the Early Cretaceous of China

    Lida Xing;Lida Xing;Martin G. Lockley;Richard T. McCrea;Gerard D. Gierliński

  • A new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China and the diversity, distribution, and relationships of mamenchisaurids

    Lida Xing;Tetsuto Miyashita;Jianping Zhang;Daqing Li

  • PISCIVORY IN THE FEATHERED DINOSAUR MICRORAPTOR

    Lida Xing;Lida Xing;Lida Xing;W. Scott Persons;Phil R. Bell;Xing Xu

  • Crab in amber reveals an early colonization of nonmarine environments during the Cretaceous.

    Javier Luque;Lida Xing;Derek E. G. Briggs;Elizabeth G. Clark;Elizabeth G. Clark

  • A New Deinonychosaurian Track from the Lower Cretaceous Hekou Group, Gansu Province, China

    Lida Xing;Daqing Li;Jerald D. Harris;Phil R. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin G. Lockley
Martin G. Lockley University of Colorado Denver
Xing Xu
Xing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Philip J. Currie
Philip J. Currie University of Alberta
Jingmai K. O’Connor
Jingmai K. O’Connor Chinese Academy of Sciences
Masaki Matsukawa
Masaki Matsukawa Tokyo Gakugei University
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Susan E. Evans
Susan E. Evans University College London
Murray K. Gingras
Murray K. Gingras University of Alberta
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta

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