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Lü Junchang
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'''Lü Junchang''' (; 1965 – 9 October 2018) was a Chinese [[palaeontologist]] and professor at the Institute of Geology, [[Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences]]. An expert on [[Mesozoic]] reptiles, he described and named many [[dinosaur]] and [[pterosaur]] genera and species including ''[[Tongtianlong]]'', ''[[Qianzhousaurus]]'', ''[[Yunnanosaurus youngi]]'', and ''[[Darwinopterus]].''
== Biography ==
Lü was born in 1965. He graduated from [[Lanzhou University]] in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in [[geology]]. He studied at the [[Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology]] (IVPP) of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] from 1997 to 2000 and earned his master's degree. He subsequently went to the United States to study at the Department of Earth Sciences at the [[Southern Methodist University]], earning his Ph.D. in 2004.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Lü began working for the [[Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences]] in July 2004, initially as a postdoctoral researcher, then as associate professor and eventually as professor and doctoral advisor.<ref name=":0" />
On 9 October 2018, Lü died of an illness in Beijing, aged 53.<ref name=":0" />
== Contributions ==
An expert on [[Mesozoic]] reptiles such as dinosaurs and pterosaurs, Lü participated in many excavation projects both in China and abroad.<ref name=":0" /> In 2007, he described a second species of ''[[Yunnanosaurus]]'', and named it ''Yunnanosaurus youngi'', after [[Yang Zhongjian]] (C. C. Young), the discovered of the genus.<ref name="Pim2013">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He and his colleagues first described the new pterosaur genus ''[[Darwinopterus]]'' in 2009, and identified a fossil of a pregnant female with an egg, which they named "Mrs. T".<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) AAAS|access-date=2018-10-14}}</ref>
In 2016, Lü and his team described and named the new dinosaur genus ''[[Tongtianlong]]'' in [[Ganzhou]], [[Jiangxi]], China, in the [[Nanxiong Formation]]. It was the sixth known genus of [[oviraptorosauria]], one of the least understood group of dinosaurs.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== References ==
[[Category:1965 births]]
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:Chinese paleontologists]]
[[Category:Lanzhou University alumni]]
[[Category:Southern Methodist University alumni]]
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