Min Zhu (paleontologist)
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Min Zhu (; born October 1965) , is a Chinese
paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...
at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), a CAS Member. He completed his undergraduate studies at
Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU) is a public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated and sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. The univers ...
and completed his PhD thesis at
IVPP The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP; ) of China is a research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and pterosaur specimens (many from the Yixian Formation). As its name sugges ...
. He is currently leading a research team from IVPP. The latest findings from his team are unearthed from two new fossil depositories, shedding light on the rise of jawed vertebrates


Contributions

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Guiyu oneiros ''Guiyu oneiros'' is one of the earliest articulated Osteichthyes, bony fish discovered. Fossils of ''Guiyu'' have been found in what is now Qujing, Yunnan, China, in late Silurian marine strata, about 425 million years old. ''Guiyu'' is part o ...
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Selected publications

* Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P.E., Zhao, W.-J. & Jia, L.-T. (2002): First Devonian tetrapod from Asia. ''Nature'', 420, 760-761. * Zhu, M. & Ahlberg, P.E. (2004): The origin of the internal nostril of tetrapods. ''Nature'', 432, 94-97. * Zhu, M., Yu, X.-B., Wang, W., Zhao, W.-J. & Jia, L.-T. (2006): A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny. ''Nature'', 441, 77-80. * Zhu, M., Zhao, W.-J., Jia, L.-T., Lu, J., Qiao, T. and Qu, Q.-M. (2009): The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters. ''Nature'', 458, 469-474.


References

1965 births Living people Chinese paleontologists Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing University alumni Paleontology in Jiangsu {{China-academic-bio-stub