Desui Miao

Miao, D. and J. A. Lillegraven. 1986. Discovery of three ear ossicles in a multituberculate mammal. National Geographic Research 2:500-507.

Miao, D. 1988. Skull morphology of Lambdopsalis bulla (Mammalia, Multituberculata) and its implications to mammalian evolution. Contributions to Geology, The University of Wyoming, Special Paper 4, viii+104p.     

Wible, J. R., D. Miao, and J. A. Hopson. 1990. The septomaxilla of fossil and recent synapsids and the problem of the septomaxilla of monotremes and armadillos. Zoological Journal of Linnean  Society, London 98:203-228.

Miao, D. 1991. On the origins of mammals. In: Schultze, H.-P. and L. Trueb (eds.) Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and Consensus. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Pp.579-597.

Miao, D. 1993. Cranial morphology and multituberculate relationships. In: Szalay, F. S., M. J. Novacek, and M. C. McKenna (eds.) Mammal Phylogeny: Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians, and marsupials. Springer-Verlag, New York. Pp. 63-74.

Chang, M-m., D. Miao et al. 2001. Suckers (Fish, Catostomidae) from the Eocene of China account for the family’s current disjunct distributions. Science in China (Series D) 44:577-586.

Chang, M-m. and D. Miao. 2004. An overview of Mesozoic fishes in Asia. In: Arratia, G. and A. Tintori, eds. Mesozoic Fishes 3—Systematics, paleoenvironments and biodiversity. Munchen: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. P. 535-563.

Chang, M-m., J. Zhang, and D. Miao. 2006. A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China. Nature 441:972-974.

Chang M-M, Wang X-M, Liu H-Z, Miao D-S, Zhao Q-H, Wu G-X, Liu J, Li Q, Sun Z-C, Wang N, 2008. Extraordinarily thick-boned fish linked to the aridification of the Qaidam Basin (northern Tibetan Plateau). PNAS, 105(36): 13246–13251.

Chang Mee-mann, Chen Peiji, Wang Yuanqing, Wang Yuan, and Miao Desui (eds.) (2008): The Jehol Fossils: The emergence of feathered dinosaurs, beaked birds and flowering plants. p.1-208. (Academic Press). Amsterdam.

Zheng, X., Xu, X., Zhou, Z., Miao, D. & Zhang F., 2010. Comment on “Narrow Primary Feather Rachises in Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx Suggests Poor Flight Ability”. Science, 330:320-c.

Chang M-M, Miao D-S, Wang N. 2010. Ascent with modification: Fossil fishes witnessed their own group’s adaptation to the uplift of Tibetan Plateau during the Late Cenozoic. In: Long, M., Gu, H., Zhou, Z. (eds.), Darwin's Heritage Today: Proceedings of the Darwin 200 Beijing International Conference. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 60-75.

Elliott, D. E., Maisey, J. G., Yu, X. & Miao, D. (eds.), 2010. Morphology, phylogeny and paleobiogeography of fossil fishes. Munchen: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 472pp.

Zheng, X., Martin, L. D., Zhou, Z., Burnham, D. A., Zhang, F. & Miao, D., 2011. Fossil evidence of avian crops from the Early Cretaceous of China. PNAS, 108(38):15904-15907.