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Wang Min*, J. K. O’Connor, T. Zhao, Y. Pan, X. Zheng, X. Wang, and Z. Zhou. 2021. An Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with a pintail. Current Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.044.

Wang Min*, T. A. Stidham, Z. Li, X. Xu, and Z. Zhou. 2021. Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution. Nature Communications 12:3890.

Wang Min*, Lloyd G. T.*, Chi Zhang, and Zhonghe Zhou. 2021 The patterns and modes of the evolution of disparity in Mesozoic birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 288, 20203105.

Wang Min*, J. K. O’Connor, A. M. Bailleul, and Zhiheng Li. 2020. Evolution and distribution of medullary bone: evidence from a new Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird. National Science Review. 7: 1068–1078

Wang Min*, and Zhonghe Zhou. 2020. Anatomy of a new specimen of Piscivorenantiornis inusitatus (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Biota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(3): e1783278

Wang Min*, Zhiheng Li, Qingguo Liu, and Zhonghe Zhou. 2020. Two new Early Cretaceous ornithuromorph birds provide insights into the taxonomy and divergence of the Yanornithidae (Aves: Ornithothoraces). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18(21): 1805–1827

Wang Min*, J. K. O’Connor, Xu Xing, and Zhou Zhonghe. 2019. A new Jurassic scansoriopterygid and the loss of membranous wings in theropod dinosaurs. Nature 569:256-259.

Wang Min*, and Zhou Zhonghe. 2019. A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17(15): 1079–1092.

Wang Min*, J. K. O’Connor, Shuang Zhou, and Z. Zhou. 2019. New toothed Early Cretaceous ornithuromorph bird reveals intraclade diversity in pattern of tooth loss. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2019.1682696

Wang Min*, O’Connor J.K., and Zhou Zhonghe. 2019. A taxonomical revision of the Confuciusornithiformes (Aves: Pygostylia). Vertebrata Palasiatica. 57(1). 1–37.

Wang Min*, T. A. Stidham, and Zhou Zhonghe*. 2018. A new clade of basal Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds and developmental plasticity of the avian shoulder girdle. PNAS. 115 (42) 10708–10713.

Wang Min*, and Zhou Zhonghe. 2018. A new confuciusornithid (Aves: Pygostylia) from the Early Cretaceous increases the morphological disparity of the Confuciusornithidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185(2): 417–430.

Wang Min*, Li Zhiheng, and Zhou Zhonghe*. 2017. Insight into the growth pattern and bone fusion of basal birds from an Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird. PNAS 114:11470–11475.   

Wang Min*, O’Connor J.K., Pan Yanhong, Zhou Zhonghe. 2017. A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle. Nature Communications 8, 14141.   

Wang Min*, and Zhou Zhonghe. 2017. The Evolution of Birds with Implications from New Fossil Evidences. In: The Biology of the Avian Respiratory System (N. J. Maina, ed.). pp. 1–26, Springer International Publishing.

Wang Min*, and Hu Han. 2017. A comparative morphological study of the jugal and quadratojugal in early birds and their dinosaurian relatives. The Anatomical Record 300:62–75.   

Wang Min*, and Zhou Zhonghe. 2017. A morphological study of the first known piscivorous enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1278702.   

Wang Min*, Zhou Zhonghe*, and Corwin Sullivan. 2016. A fish-eating enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of China provides evidence of modern avian digestive features. Current Biology 26:1170–1176.  

Wang Min*, and Lloyd G. T. *. 2016. Rates of morphological evolution are heterogeneous in Early Cretaceous birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 283, 20160214.   

Wang Min*, and Zhou Zhonghe. 2017. A new adult specimen of the basalmost ornithuromorph bird Archaeorhynchus spathula (Aves: Ornithuromorpha) and its implications for early avian ontogeny. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15:1–18.   

Wang Min*, Wang Xiaoli, Wang Yan, and Zhou Zhonghe*. 2016. A new basal bird from China with implications for morphological diversity in early birds. Scientific Reports 6:19700.   

Wang Min*, Zhou Zhonghe, and Zhou Shuang. 2016. A new basal ornithuromorph bird (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous of China with implication for morphology of early Ornithuromorpha. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176:207–223.   

Wang Yan, Wang Min*, O’Connor J.K., Wang Xiaoli, Zheng Xiaoting, Zhang Xiaomei. 2016. A new Jehol enantiornithine bird with three-dimensional preservation and ovarian follicles. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36(2) e1054496.   

Wang Min*, Liu Di. 2016. Taxonomical reappraisal of Cathayornithidae (Aves: Enantiornithes). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14: 29–47.   

Wang Min*, Zheng Xiaoting, O’Connor J.K., Lloyd G.T., Wang Xiaoli, Wang Yan, Zhang Xiaomei, Zhou Zhonghe *. 2015. The oldest record of Ornithuromorpha from the Early Cretaceous of China. Nature Communications 6987.   

Wang Min*, Hu Han, Li Zhiheng. 2016. A new small enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota, with implications for early evolution of avian skull morphology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14: 481–497.   

Wang Min*, Li Daqing, O’Connor J.K., Zhou Zhonghe, You Hailu. 2015. Second species of enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous Changma Basin, northwestern China with implications for the taxonomic diversity of the Changma avifauna. Cretaceous Research, 55: 56–65.   

Wang Min*, O’Connor, J. K., Zhou Zhonghe. 2014. A new robust enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China with scansorial adaptations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34(3): 657–671.   

Wang Min*, Zhou Zhonghe, Xu Guanghui. 2014. The first enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34(1): 135–145.  

Wang Min*, Zhou Zhonghe, O’Connor, J. K., Zelenkov, N. V. 2014. A new diverse enantiornithine family (Bohaiornithidae fam. nov.) from the Lower Cretaceous of China with information from two new species. Vertebrata Palasiatica 52 (1): 31–76.

Wang Min*, O’Connor J. K., Zhou Zhonghe. 2013. The first fossil crow (Corvus sp. indet.) from the Early Pleistocene Nihewan Paleolithic sites in North China. Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 1623–1628.   

Wang Min*, Mayr G., Zhang Jiangyong, Zhou Zhonghe. 2012. Two new skeletons of the enigmatic, rail-like avian taxon Songzia Hou, 1990 (Songziidae) from the early Eocene of China. Alcheringa 36, 487–499.   

Wang Min*, Mayr G., Zhang Jiangyong, Zhou Zhonghe. 2012. New bird remains from the Middle Eocene of Guangdong, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(3): 519–526.   

Zhou, Z., Q. Meng, R. Zhu, and Wang M. 2021. Spatiotemporal evolution of the Jehol Biota: Responses to the North China craton destruction in the Early Cretaceous. PNAS 118: e2107859118.

Li, Z., Bailleul, A. M., Stidham, T. A., Wang M., and Deng, T. 2021.  Exceptional preservation of an extinct ostrich from the Late Miocene Linxia basin of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. doi: 10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.210309.

Yang, S., H. He, F. Jin, F. Zhang, Y. Wu, Z. Yu, Q. Li, Wang M., J. K. O'Connor, C. Deng, R. Zhu, and Z. Zhou. 2020. The appearance and duration of the Jehol Biota: Constraint from SIMS U-Pb zircon dating for the Huajiying Formation in northern China. PNAS 117:14299–14305.

Bailleul, A. M., J. O’Connor, Z. Li, Q. Wu, T. Zhao, M. A. Martinez Monleon, Wang M., and X. Zheng. 2020. Confirmation of ovarian follicles in an enantiornithine (Aves) from the Jehol biota using soft tissue analyses. Communications Biology 3:399.

Kiat, Y., A. Balaban, N. Sapir, J. K. O’Connor, Wang M. and X. Xu. 2020. Sequential molt in a feathered dinosaur and implications for early paravian ecology and locomotion. Current Biology 3:3633–3638.

Zhang, C., and Wang Min. 2019. Bayesian tip dating reveals heterogeneous morphological clocks in Mesozoic birds. Royal Society Open Science 6:182062.

Chiappe, L. M., M. Qingjin, F. Serrano, T. Sigurdsen, Wang Min, A. Bell, and L. Di. 2019. New Bohaiornis-like bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: enantiornithine interrelationships and flight performance. PeerJ 7: e7846.

Falk, A., J. O’Connor, Wang Min, and Z. Zhou. 2019. On the preservation of the beak in Confuciusornis (Aves: Pygostylia). Diversity 11:212.

Imai, T., Y. Azuma, S. Kawabe, M. Shibata, K. Miyata, Wang Min, and Z. Zhou. 2019. An unusual bird (Theropoda, Avialae) from the Early Cretaceous of Japan suggests complex evolutionary history of basal birds. Communications Biology 2:399.

Pan, Y., W. Zheng, R. H. Sawyer, M. W. Pennington, X. Zheng, X. Wang, Wang Min, L. Hu, J. O’Connor, T. Zhao, Z. Li, E. R. Schroeter, F. Wu, X. Xu, Z. Zhou, and M. H. Schweitzer. 2019. The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils. PNAS 116:3018-3023.   

Zhang, C., and Wang Min. 2019. Bayesian tip dating reveals heterogeneous morphological clocks in Mesozoic birds. Royal Society Open Science 6:182062.   

Wang, X., J. K. O’Connor, J. N. Maina, Y. Pan, Wang Min, Y. Wang, X. Zheng, and Z. Zhou. 2018. Archaeorhynchus preserving significant soft tissue including probable fossilized lungs. PNAS 115:11555–11560.   

Zheng, X., J. K. O’Connor, X. Wang, Y. Pan, Y. Wang, Wang Min, and Z. Zhou. 2017. Exceptional preservation of soft tissue in a new specimen of Eoconfuciusornis and its biological implications. National Science Review 4:441–452.   

Pan, Y., W. Zheng, A. E. Moyer, J. K. O’Connor, Wang Min, X. Zheng, X. Wang, E. R. Schroeter, Z. Zhou, and M. H. Schweitzer. 2016. Molecular evidence of keratin and melanosomes in feathers of the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis. PNAS 113: E7900–E7907.   

O’Connor J. K., Li D., Lamanna M., Wang Min, Harris, J. D., Atterholt, J., and You, Hailu. 2015. A new Early Cretaceous enantiornithine (Aves, Ornithothoraces) from northwestern China with elaborate tail ornamentation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1054035.   

O’Connor J. K., Wang Min, Zhou Shuang, Zhou Zhonghe. 2015. Osteohistology of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation ornithuromorph (Aves) Iteravis huchzermeyeri. Palaeontologia Electronica 18:1–11.   

Zhao Tao, Mayr G., Wang Min, Wei Wang. 2015. A trogon-like arboreal bird from the early Eocene of China. Alcheringa. 39(2): 289–294.   

O’Connor J. K., Wang Min, Zheng Xiaoting, Zhonghe Zhou. 2014. Reply to Foth: Preserved cartilage is rare but not absent: Troodontid sternal plates are absent, not rare. PNAS 111: e5335.   

Zhou Shuang, O’Connor J. K., Wang Min. 2014. A new species from an ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) dominated locality of the Jehol Biota. Chinese Science Bulletin 59:5366-5378.   

Zheng Xiaoting, O’Connor J. K., Wang Xiaoli, Wang Min, Zhang Xiaomei, Zhou Zhonghe. 2014. On the absence of sternal elements in Anchiornis (Paraves) and Sapeornis (Aves) and the complex early evolution of the avian sternum. PNAS 111:13900–13905.   

Li Zhiheng, Zhou Zhonghe, Wang Min, J. A. Clarke. 2014. A New Specimen of Large-Bodied Basal Enantiornithine Bohaiornis from the Early Cretaceous of China and the Inference of Feeding Ecology in Mesozoic Birds. Journal of Paleontology 88:99–108.   

Zheng Xiaoting, O’Connor J. K., F. Huchzermeyer, Wang Xiaoli, Wang Yan, Wang Min, Zhou Zhonghe. 2013. Preservation of ovarian follicles reveals early evolution of avian reproductive behavior. Nature 495:507–511.  

 

 

国际学术会议口头报告

Wang Min.  Insight into the. development of the avian shoulder girdle from a new。clade of stem Pygostylian bird. 2019. 12th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology. Prague, Czech.

Wang Min, Li Zhiheng, Zhou Zhonghe.  Bone fusions in manus and pelvis in the early evolution of birds in light of new discovery. 2018. 5th International Palaeontological Congress. Paris, France.

Wang Min, Zhou Zhonge.  A long-armed confuciusornithid bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota further increases ecomorph diversity of the Confuciusornithidae. 2018. 13th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Bonn, Germany.

Wang Min.  Developmental plasticity? Bone fusions in manus and pelvis in the early evolution of birds. 2018. International Pennaraptoran Symposium at the University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, China.

Wang Min.  Estimating the rate of morphological evolution of Mesozoic birds. 2018. International Symposium on Archosaurian phylogeny: new data and methods. Beijing, China.

Wang Min, O’Connor, J.K., Pan Yanhong, Zhou Zhonghe.  A new enantiornithine bird with a plough-shaped pygostyle and unique tibiotarsal feathers. 2017. 76th Annual meeting for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Calgary, Canada.

Wang Min, Zhou Zhonghe, Sullivan C.  The oldest known avian gastric pellet from a fish-eating enantiornithine with implications of digestive system in early birds. 2016. 76th Annual meeting for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Salt Lake City, USA.

Wang Min.  A piscivorous enantiornithine bird with a gastric pellet sheds new lights on the digestive system in early birds. 2016. 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Diamante, Argentina. 

Wang Min.  The oldest record of Ornithuromorpha with implications of evolutionary rate of Early Cretaceous birds. 2015. 75th Annual meeting for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Dallas, USA .

Wang Min.  The Jehol birds: a story after Archaeopteryx. 2015. 2nd Symposium of International Geoscience Program Project 632. Shengyang, China.

Wang Min.  A new diverse enantiornithine family (Bohaiornithidae fam. nov.) from the Lower Cretaceous of China. 2014. 4th International Palaeontological Congress. Mendoza, Argentina.

Wang Min.  A new egg with avian egg shape from the Upper Cretaceous of China. 2013 2nd International Symposium on Paleohistology. Bozeman, USA.

Wang Min.  A new robust enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China with scansorial adaptations. 2013. 11th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Villers-sur Mer, France.

Wang Min.  New materials with emended information of the enigmatic, rail-like avian taxon Songzia hou, 1990 (Songziidae) from the early Eocene of China. 2012. 7th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Vienna, Austria.