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Lida Xing is a Chinese paleontologist and associate professor at the China University of Geosciences, Beijing. His research focuses on archosaur trackways and on relationships between track and skeletal records in Asia and North America, with additional work on Mid-Cretaceous vertebrate amber from Myanmar. Xing has also coauthored studies of a feathered dinosaur tail preserved in amber and of Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaur tracksites in China.
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Where does Lida Xing work?
Lida Xing is an associate professor and doctoral adviser at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing. Her research centers on vertebrate fossils, especially archosaur trackways and the relationship between track and skeletal records. [Lida Xing profile](https://www.xinglida.net/)
What are Lida Xing's main paleontological research areas?
Her work includes dinosaur trackways, fossil footprints, and the relationship between track evidence and skeletal evidence in Asia and North America. She has also worked extensively on Mid-Cretaceous vertebrate amber from Burma.
What did Lida Xing help discover in Burmese amber?
In 2016, she was part of the team that studied a roughly 99-million-year-old feathered dinosaur tail preserved in amber from Myanmar. The finding was published in Current Biology and provided unusually direct evidence about dinosaur feathers.
What award did Lida Xing receive in 2020?
She received the James Lee Wilson Award from the Society for Sedimentary Geology in 2020. The award recognized excellence in sedimentary geology research by a young scientist.
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