Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor

Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor

Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor (born 1983), U.S. palaeontologist.

• Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing 100044, China
• CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing 10010, China.

Taxon names authored

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• 2 taxon names authored by Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor

Publications

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2013

• O'Connor, J.K. & Zelenkov, N.V. 2013. The Phylogenetic Position of Ambiortus: Comparison with Other Mesozoic Birds from Asia. Paleontological Journal 47(11): 1270–1281. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030113110063 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2014

• Wang M., O'Connor J.K. & Zhou. Z., 2014. A new robust enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China with scansorial adaptations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34(3): 657–671. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.812101 . Reference page. 
• Wang M., Zhou, Z., 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. full paper (PDF). Reference page. 

2019

• Xing, L., O’Connor, J.K., Chiappe, L.M., McKellar, R.C., Carroll, N. Hu, H., Bai, M & Lei, F. 2019. A new enantiornithine bird with unusual pedal proportions found in amber. Current Biology 29 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.077 Reference page. 

2021

• Wang, M., O'Connor, J.K., Zhao, T., Pan, Y., Zheng, X., Wang, X. & Zhou, Z. 2021. An Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with a pintail. Current Biology 31(21): 4845-4852.e2. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.044 . Reference page. 
• Xu, L., Buffetaut, E., O'Connor, J., Zhang, X., Jia, S., Zhang, J., Chang, H. & Tong, H. 2021. A new, remarkably preserved, enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan (central China) and convergent evolution between enantiornithines and modern birds. Geological Magazine 158(11): 2087-2094. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756821000807 . Reference page.