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Name:
 Jih-pai LIN
Education:
 PH.D.
Research direction:
 palaeontology
Academic
title:
 Professor
Postal Code:
 210008
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Address:
 No.39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
E-mail:
 jplin@nigpas.ac.cn

Resume:
My research goals focus on understanding the early evolution of two important invertebrate clades: arthropods and echinoderms, and the origination and sustainability of marine benthic communities through time.
By understanding the taphonomic aspects, including necrolysis, entombment processes, and fossil-diagenesis, we can understand how those exceptionally preserved arthropods once lived, died, and were buried in the fossil record. Although the exact taxonomic affinities of many Cambrian taxa are still uncertain at best, my research focuses on a few key species, including Skania, Naraoia, Burgessia, and Phytophilasphis, that provide clue about the origins of trilobites, crustaceans, and chelicerates.
Based on new material from South China, my colleagues and I have published series of papers on the taphonomy and ecology of Cambrian stalked echinoderms. Important results include: 1) determining the main elemental concentrations responsible for the variety of coloration on gogiid echinoderms in the siliciclastic settings; 2) documenting the preservation of soft-parts and skeletal microstructures in articulated gogiids; 3) interpreting some selective disarticulation patterns due to infaunal activities; and most significantly, 4) proposing that gogiids and helicoplacoids, which are the most enigmatic echinoderms known, shared the same biologic grade - binding skeletal plates with undifferentiated mesodermal connective tissue.
The unique aspect of the Cambrian-Precambrian transition is that most of the modern phyla have evolved or can be traced to that critical time and most of modern animal classes are fully established by the Ordovician. Thus, we can test known hypotheses on evolutionary ecology based on the new information we gathered around the beginning of the fossil record. One idea is that the dynamic interactions among principle ecologic members were already existed among Cambrian deposits of exceptional preservation based on my work on Kaili Biota (see Lin 2008; ISBN: 9783639101089). I would like to test it further with other major deposits in the early fossil record.
I collaborate with the following Ediacaran and/or Cambrian colleagues on the evolution of early life. USA: W.I. Ausich & L.E. Babcock (The Ohio State University); S.M. Gon, III (The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii). China: Y.-L. Zhao & J. Peng (Guizhou University); J.-L. Yuan (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); S.-X. Hu (Yunnan Institute of Geological Science); X.-L. Zhang (Northwest University). Taiwan: C.-W. Li (National Tsing Hwa University); Y.-K. Hwu (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica). Russia: A. Ivantsov (Paleontological Institute). UK: A. C. Scott (Royal Holloway University of London at Egham). Australia: J.G. Gehling (South Australian Museum)

 
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近三年（2010-2012）来取得的科研成果：

Babcock, L.E., and Lin, J.-P., 2011, Other arthropods, in Zhao, Y.-L., Zhu, M.-Y., Babcock, L.E., and Peng, J., eds., The Kaili Biota: Marine Organisms from 508 Million Years Ago: Guiyang, Guizhou Publishing Group, p. 162-166.

Bonino, E., and Lin, J.-P., 2010, Origins, in Bonino, E., and Kier, C., eds., The Back to the Past Museum Guide to Trilobites: Lecco, Italy, Casa Editrice Marna s.c., p. 20-27.

Botting, J.P., Muir, L.A., Li, X.-F., and Lin, J.-P., in press, A problematic, probably chemosymbiotic hexactinellid sponges from the early Cambrian of South China: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Botting, J.P., Muir, L.A., Xiao, S.-H., Li, X.-F., and Lin, J.-P., 2012, Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules in Lenica sp. from the Early Cambrian of South China: Lethaia, v. 45, p. 463-475.

Harvey, T.H.P., Ortega-Hernández, J., Lin, J.-P., Zhao, Y.-L., and Butterfield, N.J., 2012, Burgess Shale-type microfossils from the middle Cambrian Kaili Formation, Guizhou Province, China: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 57, p. 423-436.

Li, X.-F., Lin, J.-P., and Yin, L.-M., 2012, New material of organic-walled microfossils from the Kaili Formation (Cambrian Series 2-3) of Guizhou: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 51, p. 463-474.

Lin, J.-P., 2010, Kaili Formation, in Bonino, E., and Kier, C., eds., The Back to the Past Museum Guide to Trilobites: Lecco, Italy, Casa Editrice Marna s.c., p. 227-231.

Lin, J.-P., and Briggs, D.E.G., 2010, Burgess Shale-type preservation: a comparison of naraoiids (Arthropoda) from three Cambrian localities: Palaios, v. 25, p. 463-467.

Lin, J.-P., Ivantsov, A.Y., and Briggs, D.E.G., 2011, The cuticle of the enigmatic arthropod Phytophilaspis and biomineralization in Cambrian arthropods: Lethaia, v. 44, p. 344-349.

Lin, J.-P., Zhao, Y.-L., Rahman, I.A., Xiao, S.-H., and Wang, Y., 2010, Bioturbation in Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten – Case study of trace fossil-body fossil association from the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Series 3), Guizhou, China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 292, p. 245-256.

Sundberg, F.A., Zhao, Y.-L., Yuan, J.-L., and Lin, J.-P., 2011, Detailed trilobite biostratigraphy across the proposed GSSP for Stage 5 ("Middle Cambrian" boundary) at the Wuliu-Zengjiayan section, Guizhou, China: Bulletin of Geosciences, v. 86, p. 423-464.

Yuan, J.-L., Zhu, X.-J., Lin, J.-P., and Zhu, M.-Y., 2011, Tentative correlation of Cambrian Series 2 between South China and other continents: Bulletin of Geosciences, v. 86, p. 397-404.

Zhao, Y.-L., and Lin, J.-P., 2011, Subphylum Trilobitomorph [sic Trilobitomorpha], in Zhao, Y.-L., Zhu, M.-Y., Babcock, L.E., and Peng, J., eds., The Kaili Biota: Marine Organisms from 508 Million Years Ago: Guiyang, Guizhou Publishing Group, p. 118-126.

 
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