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Name:
 LIANG Yan
Education:
 Ph.D.
Research direction:
  
Academic
title:
 Professor
Postal Code:
 210008
Subject
categories:
 Palaeontology
Mailing
Address:
 39 East Bejing Road, Nanjing, China
E-mail:
 liangyan@nigpas.ac.cn

Resume:

2006.09~2010.07  B. S., Geology, Department of Geology, Yangtze University;

2010.09~2015.07  Ph.D., Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;

2015.07~2019.03  Research Assistant, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences；

2017.09~2019.08  Post-doc in Tallinn University of Technology, sponsored by Estonia Research Council；

2019.03~2022.02  Associate Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2022.03~now      Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Direction:

At present, I am focusing on the biostratigraphy, biodiversity, palaeoecology and palaeogeography of Ordovician chitinozoans. I am also interested in the morphology and function of Chitinozoa.
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Publications:

Liang, Y., Bernardo, J., Goldman, D., N？lvak, J., Tang, P., Wang, W., Hints, O., 2019. Morphological variation suggests that chitinozoans may be fossils of individual microorganisms rather than metazoan eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286, 20191270.

Liang, Y., Wang, G.X., Servais, T., Wu, R.C., N？lvak, J., Hints, O., Wei, X., Gong, F.Y., Yan, G.Z. 2019. Age constraints of the Hungshiyhen Formation (Early to Middle Ordovician) on the western margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: New insights from chitinozoans. Palaeoworld. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2019.05.008

Liang, Y., Hints, O., Luan, X.C., N？lvak, J., Tang, P., Wu, R.C. 2019. Palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphical implications of selected Floian and Dapingian (Ordovician) chitinozoans of the South China Palaeoplate. Lethaia., 52: 220-231 https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12308

Liang, Y., Hints, O., Luan, X.C., Tang, P., N？lvak, J., Zhan, R.B. 2018. Lower and Middle Ordovician chitinozoans from Honghuayuan, South China: biodiversity patterns and response to environmental changes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.002

Liang, Y., Servais, T., Tang, P., Liu, J.B., Wang, W.H., 2017b. Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) chitinozoan biostratigraphy of South China: An update. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 247: 149-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.08.008

Liang, Y., Paris, F., Tang, P., 2017a. Middle-Late Ordovician chitinozoans from the Yichang area, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 244: 26-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.04.004

Liang, Y., Tang, P., 2016a. Early–Middle Ordovician Chitinozoan Biostratigraphy of the Upper Yangtze Region, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 40, 136-150. (in Chinese, with English Abstr.)

Liang, Y., Tang, P., 2016b. Early Ordovician to early Late Ordovician Chitinozoan biodiversity of the Upper Yangtze Region, South China. Scientia Sinica Terrae 46, 809–823. (in Chinese)

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Wu, R.C., Luan, X.C., Zhan, R.B., 2015. Chitinozoan Biostratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Ordovician Miaopo Formation in Yichang, Hubei Province. Journal of Stratigraphy 39, 17-30. (in Chinese, with English Abstr.)

Liang, Y., Zhan, R.B., Jin, J.S., 2014. The oldest known occurrence of the Foliomena fauna in the uppermost Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) of South China. Lethaia 47, 432-436.

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Zhan, R.B., Wu, R.C., 2014. New data of early Late Ordovician chitinozoans from the Miaopo Formation at Jieling, Yichang, Central China. GFF 136, 162-166.

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Zhan, R.B., 2014. Preliminary report on the chitinozoans from the Lower Ordovician Tungtzu and Hunghuayuan formations of Tongzi, northern Guizhou, shouthwest China. In: Zhan, R.B., Huang, B. (Eds.), IGCP 591 Field Workshop 2014, Extended Summary, 75-79. Nanjing University Press, Nanjing.

N？lvak J, Liang Y, Hints O., 2019. Early diversification of Ordovician chitinozoans on Baltica: New data from the J？gala waterfall section, northern Estonia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 525:14–24.

Luan, X.C., Brett, C.E., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Wu, R.C., Liang, Y., 2017. Microfacies analysis of the Lower-Middle Ordovician succession at Xiangshuidong, southwestern Hubei Province, and the drowning and shelf-ramp transition of a carbonate platform in the Yangtze region. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol 485: 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.004

Wu, R.C., Stouge, S., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Liang, Y., 2016. Conodont faunal dynamics across the Middle and Upper Ordovician boundary in the Yichang area, western Hubei Province, South China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53(8), 856-864.

Tang, P., Wang, J., Wang, C.Y., Wu, R.C., Yan, K., Liang, Y., Wang, X., 2015. Microfossils across the Llandovery–Wenlock boundary in Ziyang–Langao region, Shaanxi, NW China. Palaeoworld 24, 221-230.

Zhan, R.B., Harper, D.A.T., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Liu, J.B., Stemmerik, L., Stouge, S., 2014. Middle Ordovician Aporthophyla Brachiopod fauna from the roof of the world, Southern Tibet. Palaeontology 57, 141-170.

Zhan, R.B., Rong, J.Y., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Yuan, W.W., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, Y.,2014. Discovery of a Late Ordovician Foliomena fauna in the Tarim desert,Northwest China. Palaeoworld 23, 125-142.

Zhan, R.B., Huang, B., Wang, G.X., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.D., Li, R.Y., Liu, J.B., Wu, R.C., 2014. Discovery of the late Middle Ordovician Saucrorthis fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Sibumasu palaeoplate, western Yunnan, SW China. GFF 136, 320-326.

Zhan, R.B., Luan, X.C., Huang, B., Liang, Y., Wang, G.X., Wang, Y., 2014. Darriwilian Saucrorthis fauna: Implications for the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 1–7.

Tang, P., Wang, J., Wang, C.Y., Liang, Y., Wang, X., 2014. Microfossils from the Llandovery-Wenlock boundary sections in Ziyang-Langao region, southern Shaanxi, central China. In: Zhan, R.B., Huang, B. (Eds.), IGCP 591 Field Workshop 2014, Extended Summary, 155-157. Nanjing University Press, Nanjing.

Zhan, R.B., Jin, J.S., Rong, J.Y., Liang, Y., 2013. The earliest known Strophomenoids (Brachiopoda) from early Middle Ordovician rocks of South China. Palaeontology 56, 1121-1148

Liang, Y., Zhan, R.B., 2012. Litho-and biofacies of the Middle Ordovician Shihtzupu Formation of the Upper Yangtze region, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 36, 558-568. (in Chinese, with English Abstr.)

Zhan, R.B., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Meng, L.K., 2012. Evolution and paleogeography of Eospirifer (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) in Late Ordovician and Silurian. Science China: Earth Sciences 55, 1427-1444.

Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Liang, Y., Li, G.P., 2011. α- and β-diversity Change of Late Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna of Changning, Sichuan, Southwest China. Acta Geological Sinica 85(2), 330–339.

Zhan, R.B., Li, R.Y., Percival, I.G., Liang, Y., 2011. Brachiopoda biogeographic change during the Early to Middle Ordovician in South China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41, 273–283.

Zhan, R.B., Liang, Y., Meng, L.K., 2011. On the macroevolution of Eospirifer Schuchert, 1913 (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda). In: Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C., Rábano, I. and García-Bellido, D. (eds), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14, 633–648.

Zhan, R.B., Liang, Y. 2011. The Ordovician Biodiversification. Science, 63(2): 19–21. (in Chinese)
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