David W. E. Hone. Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK. d.hone@qmul.ac.uk
Dave Hone is a vertebrate paleontologist who works on the behaviour and ecology of dinosaurs and the paleobiology and taxonomy of pterosaurs. He has made a particular study of sexual selection and socio-sexual signals in various dinosaur clades, and on feeding behaviour and trophic interactions of the theropods. He has also worked on the flight mechanicas of pterosaurs and on their preservation. Dave has also named a number of new dinosaur, pterosaur and rhynchosaur taxa.
Shunxing Jiang. Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Xizhimenwai Dajie 142, 100044 Beijing, China. jiangshunxing@ivpp.ac.cn
Shunxing Jiang is a vertebrate paleontologist who studies mainly on pterosaurs, including many aspects, such as morphology, phylogeny, histology, and paleobiology. He has found the first gastric pellets in pterosaurs similar to some modern birds, confirming it is a piscivore. He has worked on the embryonic development through the first thin-sections of embryonic long-bones in the world. His current project is the taxonomy of dsungaripterids, especially Dsungaripterus. Based on the previous collection and the new discovery in recent years, he hopes to make Dsungaripterus one of the best known pterosaurs.
Adam J. Fitch. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 West Dayton St, Madison, Wisconsin 53105, USA. afitch2@wisc.edu
Adam Fitch is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the early evolution of archosaurs and their kin. His research focuses on the origin of the avian-stem (Avemetatarsalia), a group that most famously includes pterosaurs and dinosaurs. These questions have led him to focus on the paleontology of the Triassic Period, a critical interval during which much of the modern fauna originated, including archosaurs and, by extension, stem-avians. His current projects include reassessment of the ages of the global mid- early late-Triassic strata, the assembly of a novel Avemetatarsalian phylogenetic analysis, and the functional morphology and locomotor evolution of early stem-Aves.
Yizhi Xu. Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Xizhimenwai Dajie 142, 100044 Beijing, China and College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. xuyizhi@ivpp.ac.cn
Yizhi Xu is a PHD student specializing in vertebrate paleontology who works on pterosaurs. His primary research interest lies in istiodactylids, a group of pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous characterized by large nasoantorbital fenestra and short triangular teeth, and their relatives. So far, he has conducted research on the morphology, taxonomy and phylogeny of this clade, including the discovery of a new istiodactylid, Lingyuanopterus camposi. Presently he is working on several other pterosaur specimens from the Jehol Biota.
Xing Xu. Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Xizhimenwai Dajie 142, 100044 Beijing, China and CAS Center of Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, 100044, China. xu.xing@ivpp.ac.cn
Xing Xu is a palaeontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. He works primarily on theropod dinosaurs and especially the transition to birds.
