• Dong Zhiming (Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng; born January 1937) is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist formerly employed at the Institute of Vertebrate...
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    Jurassic System of China. Stratigraphy of China. Vol. 11. pp. 286–290. Dong Zhiming (1992). Dinosaurian Faunas of China. Beijing: China Ocean Press. ISBN 3-540-52084-8...
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    Formation, Dashanpusaurus dongi, was named in tribute of both Dashanpu and Dong Zhiming. In addition to dinosaur finds, many other prehistoric finds have been...
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    in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China in the mid-1960s. In 1977, Dong Zhiming described this specimen, which was recovered from the Subashi Formation...
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    nearly complete skeleton of a theropod new to science was discovered by Dong Zhiming in 1981, during stratigraphic exploration for the benefit of the oil...
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  • Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China. Initially described by Dong Zhiming in 1977, the formation contains remains of Tarbosaurus which were initially...
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    Shunosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    bank. The type species, Shunosaurus lii, was described and named by Dong Zhiming, Zhou Shiwu and Zhang Yihong in 1983. The generic name derives from "Shu"...
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    Yangchuanosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    Material Dong Zhiming (1988). Dinosaurs from China. China Ocean Press, Beijing & British Museum (Natural History). ISBN 0-565-01073-5. Dong Zhiming (1992)...
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    Micropachycephalosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    near Hongtuyan train station. The remains were named and described by Dong Zhiming in 1978 as belonging to the new genus and species Micropachycephalosaurus...
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    Tuojiangosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    ISBN 1-84028-152-9. Dong Zhiming (1988). Dinosaurs from China. China Ocean Press, Beijing & British Museum (Natural History). ISBN 0-565-01073-5. Dong Zhiming (1992)...
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    Therizinosauroidea and also the first record of Therizinosauroidea in Europe. In 1979 Dong Zhiming named a new species of the megalosaurid Chilantaisaurus, C. zheziangensis...
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    Crichtonsaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    near Beipiao in Liaoning Province, China. It was named and described by Dong Zhiming of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of...
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    Wuerhosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    have existed. Wuerhosaurus homheni is the type species, described by Dong Zhiming in 1973 from the Tugulu Group in Xinjiang, western China. The generic...
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    titan, "giant". The specific name honours the Chinese paleontologist Dong Zhiming. Like other sauropods, Dongbeititan would have been a large quadrupedal...
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    Chungkingosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    species, Chungkingosaurus jiangbeiensis, was named and described by Dong Zhiming, Zhou Shiwu, and Zhang Yihong in 1983. The generic name refers to Chongqing...
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    Xinjiangtitan (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    excavated, Wu Wen-hao, Zhou Chang-fu, Oliver Wings, Toru Sekiha and Dong Zhiming described it as a new genus and species, Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis....
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    Crystal, Amber and Glass, Fig. 17. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 1-58008-587-3. Dong Zhiming (1992). Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing. ISBN 3-540-52084-8...
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    Therizinosauridae) to contain this species. In the same year, paleontologist Dong Zhiming described the genus Nanshiungosaurus, but wrongly interpreted the remains...
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  • Tianchisaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    Spielberg, who has funded Chinese dinosaur research, proposed the name. Dong Zhiming ultimately discarded the genus name "Jurassosaurus" (which is now a nomen...
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    Bienosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    as Mei Nien Bien, discovered a fragmentary dinosaur skull. In 2001, Dong Zhiming named and described the specimen as the type species Bienosaurus lufengensis...
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    Chinese, and "raptor" meaning robber. The specific name dongi honours Dong Zhiming. Despite its name, Sinraptor is not related to dromaeosaurids (often...
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    Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition Transactions (in Russian). 3: 93–104. Dong Zhiming (1977). "On the dinosaurian remains from Turpan, Xinjiang". Vertebrata...
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    Archaeoceratops (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    Province, north central China. The type species, A. oshimai, was named by Dong Zhiming and Azuma in 1997. It is the first basal neoceratopsian discovered in...
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    Project, with Dale Russell of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa and Dong Zhiming of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in...
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    Bibcode:2016JVPal..36E4495P. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1054495. S2CID 86032549. Dong Zhiming (1992). Dinosaurian Faunas of China. Beijing: China Ocean Press. ISBN 3-540-52084-8...
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    Bellusaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    type and only known species is Bellusaurus sui, formally described by Dong Zhiming in 1991. The remains of Bellusaurus were found in the Shishugou Formation...
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    Huayangosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    ISBN 0-521-81172-4. Dong Zhiming (1988). Dinosaurs from China. China Ocean Press, Beijing & British Museum (Natural History). ISBN 0-565-01073-5. Dong Zhiming (1992)...
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  • Microhadrosaurus (category Taxa named by Dong Zhiming)
    on juvenile remains, and the size of the adult hadrosaur is unknown. Dong Zhiming named this genus for IVPP V4732, a partial lower jaw from a juvenile...
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    Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China, and were first described by Dong Zhiming in 1973. The genus is based on a single specimen, an articulated partial...
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    affinities of segnosaurs were questioned by paleontologists Dale Russell and Dong Zhiming. This new genus was far more complete than any other segnosaur and multiple...
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