{"id":535,"date":"2021-01-30T18:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/?page_id=535"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:06:21","slug":"lida-xing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/members\/lida-xing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lida Xing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201912 MSc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lida\u2019s research specializes in archosaur tracks, anatomy, and the relationship between. He also has interest in mid-Cretaceous amber deposits from Burma that preserve fossilized vertebrate remains and in the morphology, palaeoecology, and evolution of theropods (avian and non-avian). Lida completed a MSc with Specialization in Systematics and Evolution in 2012 at the University of Alberta studying the theropod <em>Sinosaurus<\/em>. He then went to China University of Geosciences in Beijing for doctoral research, afterwards becoming an associate professor at the same institution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAB-RELATED PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xu, X.,\u00a0Currie, P.J., Pittman, M., <strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Meng, Q.J., L\u00fc, J.C., Hu, D.Y., and Yu, C.Y. 2017. Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with transitional features.\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>\u00a08: 14972. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms14972\">10.1038\/ncomms14972<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, McKellar, R.C., Xu, X., Li, G., Bai, M., Persons, W.S., Miyashita, T., Benton, M.J., Zhang, J.P., Wolfe, A.P., Yi, Q.-R., Tseng, K.-W., Ran, H., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02016. A feathered dinosaur tail with primitive plumage trapped in mid-Cretaceous amber and its implications for the evolution of feathers.\u00a0<em>Current Biology<\/em>\u00a026(24): 3352\u20133360. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982216311939\">10.1016\/j.cub.2016.10.008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Wang, Y.-K., Snively, E., Zhang, J.-P., Dong, Z.-M., Burns, M.E., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02015. Model-based identification of mechanical characteristics of\u00a0<em>Sinosaurus<\/em>\u00a0(Theropoda) crests.\u00a0<em>Acta Geologica Sinica<\/em>\u00a089: 1\u201311. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/1755-6724.12390\">10.1111\/1755-6724.12390<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Miyashita, T.,\u00a0Currie, P.J., You, H.-L., and Dong, Z.-M. 2015. A new basal eusauropod from the Middle Jurassic of Yunnan, China, and faunal compositions and transitions of Asian sauropodomorph dinosaurs.\u00a0<em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica\u00a0<\/em>60(1): 145\u2013154. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.pan.pl\/article\/item\/app20120151.html\">10.4202\/app.2012.0151<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Miyashita, T., Zhang, J.-P., Li, D.-Q., Ye, Y., Sekiya, T., Wang, F.-P, and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02015. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China and the diversity, distribution, and relationships of mamenchisaurids.\u00a0<em>Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology<\/em>\u00a035(1): e889701. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/02724634.2014.889701\">10.1080\/02724634.2014.889701<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Paulina-Carabajal, A.,\u00a0Currie, P.J., Xu, X., Zhang, J.-P., Wang, T., Burns, M.E., and Dong, Z.-M. 2014. Braincase anatomy of the basal theropod\u00a0<em>Sinosaurus<\/em>\u00a0from the Early Jurassic of China.\u00a0<em>Acta Geologica Sinica<\/em>\u00a088: 1653\u20131664. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/1755-6724.12335\">10.1111\/1755-6724.12335<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Peng, G.-Z., Ye, Y., Lockley, M.G., McCrea, R.T.,\u00a0Currie, P.J., Zhang, J.-P., and Burns, M.E. 2014. Large theropod trackway from the Lower Jurassic Zhenzhuchong Formation of Weiyuan County, Sichuan Province, China: Review, new observations and special preservation.\u00a0<em>Palaeoworld<\/em>\u00a023: 285\u2013293. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1871174X14000456?casa_token=Ay953OwJKgMAAAAA:TkHVbV9yrljexlXswLWlRIFff6setpJBYFheOgDPVcHA47iRiXl6JCSgI7WutOeEXX1Qkxn3wMs\">10.1016\/j.palwor.2014.10.010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Bell, P.R., Rothschild, B.M., Ran, H., Zhang, J.-P., Dong, Z.M., Zhang, W., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02013. Tooth loss and alveolar remodeling in\u00a0<em>Sinosaurus triassicus<\/em>\u00a0(Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Jurassic strata of the Lufeng Basin, China.\u00a0<em>Chinese Science Bulletin<\/em>\u00a058(16): 1931\u20131935. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11434-013-5765-7\">10.1007\/s11434-013-5765-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Li, D.-Q., Harris, J.D., Bell, P.R., Azuma, Y., Fujita, M., Lee, Y.-N., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02013. A new deinonychosaurian track from the Lower Cretaceous Hekou Group, Gansu Province, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (4): 723\u2013730. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4202\/app.2011.0115\">10.4202\/app.2011.0115<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Persons, W.S., Bell, P.R., Xu, X., Zhang, J.-P., Miyashita, T., Wang, F.-P., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02013. Piscivory in the feathered dinosaur\u00a0<em>Microraptor<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Evolution<\/em>\u00a067(8): 2441\u20132445. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/evo.12119\">10.1111\/evo.12119<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Bell, P.R., Ji, S., Ji, Q., Miyashita, T., Persons, W.S., Burns, M.E., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02012. Abdominal contents from two large Early Cretaceous compsognathids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) demonstrate feeding on confuciusornithids and dromaeosaurids.\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE<\/em>\u00a07(8): e44012. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0044012\">10.1371\/journal.pone.0044012<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Bell, P.R., Harris, J.D., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02012. An unusual, three-dimensionally preserved, large hadrosauriform pes track from \u201cmid\u201d-Cretaceous Jianguan Formation of Chongqing, China.\u00a0<em>Acta Geologica Sinica<\/em>\u00a086: 304\u2013312. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1755-6724.2012.00660.x?casa_token=0o4uKbqBtwwAAAAA:lpj9Jj1kcYKrs46CS2Bs21QDAVqbdz8nJv0s1JVWMIKAjb58vUMGEqZkd3I8WEUZVWnebcP1Qr-JjR4\">10.1111\/j.1755-6724.2012.00660.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Bell, P.R.,\u00a0Currie, P.J., Shibata, M.-T., Tseng, K.-W., and Dong, Z.-M. 2012. A sauropod rib with an embedded theropod tooth: direct evidence for feeding behaviour in the Jehol group, China.\u00a0<em>Lethaia<\/em>\u00a045(4): 500\u2013506. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/j.1502-3931.2012.00310.x\">10.1111\/j.1502-3931.2012.00310.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Harris, J.D., Gierlinski, G.D., Gingras, M.K., Divay, J.D., Tang, Y.-G., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02012. Early Cretaceous pterosaur tracks from a \u201cburied\u201d dinosaur tracksite in Shandong Province, China.\u00a0<em>Palaeoworld<\/em>\u00a021: 50\u201358. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1871174X12000054?casa_token=JbXVaHXDlHQAAAAA:A6zdbiSG-ht1yf4czgme4aF0ok4Wf-0cgzHCRFKyfRs1uDSEYswlxQeNM2dxJWi1lndZxeAm14c\">10.1016\/j.palwor.2012.02.004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zhang, J.-P., <strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Gierlinski, G.D., Wu, F.-D., Tian, M.-Zh., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02012. First record of dinosaur trackways in Beijing, China.\u00a0<em>Chinese Science Bulletin<\/em>\u00a057: 144\u2013152. DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/engine.scichina.com\/publisher\/scp\/journal\/CSB\/57\/2-3\/10.1360\/972011-1963?slug=fulltext\">10.1360\/972011-1963<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.D.<\/strong>, Harris, J.D., and\u00a0Currie, P.J.\u00a02011. First record of dinosaur trackway from Tibet, China.\u00a0<em>Geological Bulletin of China<\/em>\u00a030: 173\u2013178.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Xing, L.<\/strong> 2012. <em>Sinosaurus<\/em> from southwestern China [master\u2019s thesis]. <em>University of Alberta Education and Research Archive<\/em>. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7939\/R3HP8F\">10.7939\/R3HP8F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinglida.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>http:\/\/www.xinglida.net\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=Beptq3cAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/GoogleScholar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/GoogleScholar.png 600w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/GoogleScholar-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/GoogleScholar-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3923-9206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD.png 500w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201912 MSc Lida\u2019s research specializes in archosaur tracks, anatomy, and the relationship between. He also has interest in mid-Cretaceous amber deposits from Burma that preserve fossilized vertebrate remains and in the morphology, palaeoecology, and evolution of theropods (avian and non-avian). 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