Zhonghe Zhou

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Zhonghe Zhou (Chinese :周忠和; born 19 January 1965 in Jiangdu, Jiangsu province) is a Chinese palaeontologist. He described the ancient bird Confuciusornis . [1]

Zhonghe graduated from Nanjing University and earned a Ph.D. in Biology in 1999 from the University of Kansas. He is the director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and in 2010 was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. [2]

Below is a list of taxa that Zhou has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2024 Imparavis attenboroughi gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Clark, O'Connor, Zhang, Wang, Zheng, & Zhou [3]
2023 Fujianvenator prodigiosus gen. et sp. nov.Xu, Wang, Chen, Dong, Lin, Xu, Tang, You, Zhou, Wang, He, Li, Zhang, & Zhou [4]
2019 Shangyang graciles gen. et sp. nov.Wang & Zhou [5]
2018 Jinguofortis perplexus gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Stidham, & Zhou [6]
2014 Parvavis chuxiongensis gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Zhou, & Xu [7]
2010 Zhongjianornis yangi gen. et sp. nov.Zhou, Zhang, & Li [8]
2008 Pengornis houi gen. et sp. nov.Zhou, Clarke, & Zhang [9]
2006 Archaeorhynchus spathula gen. et sp. nov.Zhou & Zhang [10]
2005 Hongshanornis longicresta gen. et sp. nov.Zhou & Zhang [11]

References

  1. ↑ Stokstad, Erik (12 January 2001), "Exquisite Chinese Fossils Add New Pages to Book of Life", Science , 291 (5502): 232–236, doi:10.1126/science.291.5502.232, PMID   11253830, S2CID   19053673 .
  2. ↑ KU Alumnus elected to National Academy of Sciences, News and Events, Univ. of Kansas Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, retrieved 2012-10-22.
  3. ↑ Wang, Xiaoli; Clark, Alexander D.; O'Connor, Jingmai Kathleen; Zhang, Xiangyu; Wang, Xing; Zheng, Xiaoting; Zhou, Zhonghe (July 2024). "First Edentulous Enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Avifauna". Cretaceous Research . 159: 105867. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105867 . Retrieved 12 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  4. ↑ Xu, Liming; Wang, Min; Chen, Runsheng; Dong, Liping; Lin, Min; Xu, Xing; Tang, Jianrong; You, Hailu; Zhou, Guowu; Wang, Linchang; He, Wenxing; Li, Yujuan; Zhang, Chi; Zhou, Zhonghe (6 September 2023). "A new avialan theropod from an emerging Jurassic terrestrial fauna". Nature . 621 (7978): 336–343. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06513-7. ISSN   1476-4687 . Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  5. ↑ Wang, Min; Zhou, Zhonghe (3 August 2019). "A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 17 (15): 1299–1312. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1527403. ISSN   1477-2019 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  6. ↑ Wang, Min; Stidham, Thomas A.; Zhou, Zhonghe (16 October 2018). "A new clade of basal Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds and developmental plasticity of the avian shoulder girdle". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 115 (42): 10708–10713. doi:10.1073/pnas.1812176115. ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   6196491 . PMID   30249638 . Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  7. ↑ Wang, Min; Zhou, Zhonghe; Xu, Guanghui (7 January 2014). "The first enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 34 (1): 135–145. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.794814. ISSN   0272-4634 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  8. ↑ Zhou, Zhonghe; Zhang, Fucheng; Li, Zhiheng (2010-01-22). "A new Lower Cretaceous bird from China and tooth reduction in early avian evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 (1679): 219–227. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0885. ISSN   0962-8452. PMC   2842673 . PMID   19586952.
  9. ↑ Zhou, Zhonghe; Clarke, Julia Allison; Zhang, Fucheng (8 April 2008). "Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird". Journal of Anatomy . 212 (5): 565–577. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00880.x. ISSN   0021-8782. PMC   2409080 . PMID   18397240 . Retrieved 25 February 2025– via Wiley Online Library.
  10. ↑ Zhou, Zhonghe; Zhang, Fucheng (4 July 2006). "A beaked basal ornithurine bird (Aves, Ornithurae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China". Zoologica Scripta . 35 (4): 363–373. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00234.x. ISSN   0300-3256 . Retrieved 16 March 2025– via Wiley Online Library.
  11. ↑ Zhou, Zhonghe; Zhang, Fucheng (27 December 2005). "Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implication for Early Cretaceous avian radiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 102 (52): 18998–19002. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507106102. ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   1323170 . PMID   16344487 . Retrieved 11 March 2025.
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