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Name:
 ZENG Han
Education:
 Ph.D.
Research direction:
  
Academic
title:
 Associate Professor
Postal Code:
 210008
Subject
categories:
 Palaeontology
Mailing
Address:
 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, China
E-mail:
 hzeng@nigpas.ac.cn

Resume:
 Education

2018 Jul. – 2019 Jan., Postdoctoral researcher in Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Supervisor: Douglas H. Erwin (Senior Scientist and Curator).

2018 Jul. – 2018 Aug., Trainee in Analytical Paleobiology Workshop, University of Florida. Organizing Chair: Micha？ Kowalewski (Professor).

2016 Sep. – 2018 Mar., Predoctoral researcher in Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Supervisor: Douglas H. Erwin (Senior Scientist and Curator).

2013 Sep. – 2018 Jun., Ph.D. Degree of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Studied in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Supervisor: Maoyan Zhu (Professor), Fangchen Zhao (Professor).

2009 Sep. – 2013 Jul., Bachelor Degree of Geology (with focus on Paleontology), Nanjing University.
Direction:

　　My current research focuses on the origin and early evolution of arthropods, segmented and legged invertebrates and the most diverse animal group on the Earth ever since the Cambrian Explosion. I have been investigating the vast collections of soft-bodied arthropods from the exceptionally preserved fossil deposits in the Cambrian (e.g. Chengjiang, Burgess Shale, etc., 520–505 million years ago) for years. These fossils document invaluable morphologies of early arthropods and their close relatives. Therefore, I am devoted to rereading the early evolutionary history of arthropods by integrating perspectives from paleobiology, phylogeny and development.
Achievements:
 
Publications:

1.         Zeng H, Zhao FC, Niu KC, Zhu MY, Huang DY. 2020. An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages. Nature, 588(7836): 101–105.

2.         Zeng H, Zhao FC, Yin ZJ, Zhu MY. 2021. A new early Cambrian bivalved euarthropod from Yunnan, China and general interspecific morphological and size variations in Cambrian hymenocarines. Palaeoworld, 30(3), 387–397.

3.         Zeng H, Zhao FC, Yin ZJ, Zhu MY. 2018. Morphology of diverse radiodontan head sclerites from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, south-west China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(1): 1–37.

4.         Zeng H, Zhao FC, Yin ZJ, Zhu MY. 2018. A new radiodontan oral cone with a unique combination of anatomical features from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstatte, eastern Yunnan, South China. Journal of Paleontology, 92(1): 40–48. (封面论文)

5.         Zeng H, Zhao FC, Yin ZJ, Zhu MY. 2017. Appendages of an early Cambrian metadoxidid trilobite from Yunnan, SW China support mandibulate affinities of trilobites and artiopods. Geological Magazine, 154(6): 1306–1328.

6.         Zeng H, Zhao FC, Yin ZJ, Li GX, Zhu M. 2014. A Chengjiang-type fossil assemblage from the Hongjingshao Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) at Chenggong, Kunming, Yunnan. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59(25): 3169–3175. (封面论文)

7.         孙智新, 曾晗, 赵方臣. 2021. 山东寒武系苗岭统三叶虫消化系统的化石证据. 古生物学报, 60(1): 2020024.

8.         刘瑶, 孙智新, 曾晗, 赵方臣. 2021. 山东潍坊寒武系苗岭统乌溜阶馒头组上部的腕足动物. 古生物学报, 60(1): 2020051.

9.         Sun Z, Zeng H, Zhao F. 2020. A new middle Cambrian radiodont from North China: Implications for morphological disparity and spatial distribution of hurdiids. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 558: 109947.

10.     Sun Z, Zeng H, Zhao F. 2020. Occurrence of the hurdiid radiodont Cambroraster in the middle Cambrian (Wuliuan) Mantou Formation of North China. Journal of Paleontology 94(5): 881–886.

11.     Sun Z, Zeng H, Zhao F. 2020. First occurrence of the Cambrian arthropod Sidneyia Walcott, 1911 outside of Laurentia. Geological Magazine 157(3): 405–410.

12.     Sun Z, Zeng H, Zhao F. 2020. A new middle Cambrian trilobite with a specialized cephalon from Shandong Province, North China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(4): 709–718.

13.     Aria C, Zhao F, Zeng H, Guo J, Zhu M. 2020. Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20(4): 1–17.

14.     Luo C, Zhao F, Zeng H, 2020. The first report of a vauxiid sponge from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota. Journal of Paleontology, 94(1): 28–33.

15.     Sun H, Yin Z, Li G, Zhao F, Zeng H, Zhu M. 2020. Periodic shell decollation as an ecology-driven strategy in the early Cambrian Cupitheca. Palaeontology, 63(3): 431–442.

16.     Sun H, Zhao F, Steiner M, Li G, Na L, Pan B, Yin Z, Zeng H, Van Iten H, Zhu M. 2020. Skeletal faunas of the lower Cambrian Yu'anshan Formation, eastern Yunnan, China: Metazoan diversity and community structure during the Cambrian Age 3. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 542: 109580.

17.     朱茂炎, 赵方臣, 殷宗军, 曾晗, 李国祥. 2019. 中国的寒武纪大爆发研究: 进展与展望. 中国科学: 地球科学, 49(10): 1455–1490.

18.     Sun H, Smith M, Zeng H, Zhao F, Li G, Zhu M. 2018. Hyoliths with pedicles illuminate the origin of the brachiopod body plan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1887): 20181780.

19.     Sun H, Zhao F, Wen R, Zeng H, Peng J. 2018. Feeding strategy and locomotion of Cambrian hyolithides. Palaeoworld, 27(3): 334–342.

20.     Yin Z, Zhao D, Pan B, Zhao F, Zeng H, Li G, Bottjer D, Zhu M. 2018. Early Cambrian animal diapause embryos revealed by X-ray tomography. Geology, 46(5): 387–390.

21.     Smith EF, Nelson LL, Tweedt SM, Zeng H, Workman JB. 2017. A cosmopolitan late Ediacaran biotic assemblage: new fossils from Nevada and Namibia support a global biostratigraphic link. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1858): 20170934.

22.     Zhao F, Smith M, Yin Z, Zeng H, Li G, Zhu M. 2017. Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp. and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution. Scientific Reports, 7(1): 16232.

23.     Zhao F, Smith M, Yin Z, Zeng H, Hu S, Li G, Zhu M. 2015. First report of Wiwaxia from the Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte. Geological Magazine, 152(2): 378–382.

24.     Zhao F, Hu S, Zeng H, Zhu M. 2014. A new helmetiid arthropod from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, southwest china. Journal of Paleontology, 88(2): 367–370.
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