Zhang Zhifei

Professional:Professor

Department:Paleontology Teaching and Research Office

Honour:Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China,Winner of National Top 100 Doctoral Dissertations

Direction:The Cambrian Explosion and Coronal Animals (Brachiopoda, Anastomes, Broomworms, and Soft Tongue Snails, etc.)

Contact:88303553

Email:elizf@nwu.edu.cn

Hosted and completed the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the International (Regional) I have conducted research on multiple national key projects, including key research funds and major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. I have also participated in several major projects, including group projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The research achievements have successively won the first prize of Shaanxi University Science and Technology Award, the first prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education and the second prize of the State Natural Science AwardVice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Paleontology, Chairman of the Shaanxi Society of Paleontology, and other positions. Two doctoral students under his guidance have won excellent doctoral dissertations in Shaanxi Province.Social part-time jobs:

Associate Editor of the Journal of Paleontologyfont family: Song typeface; ">Paleoworld

Chinese Journal of Paleontology (Acta Paleontology Sinica)

Associate Editor in Chief of the British Geological Journal

Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Paleontology

Chairman of Shaanxi Paleontological Society


Hosted and completed scientific research projectsHosted the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars ()

Research on Ecological Type Diversity and Nutritional Structure during the Cambrian Explosion ()41720104002Hosted the National Natural Science Foundation General Project ()

G40702003Hosted the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Author Special Fund of the Ministry of Education ()

NCET-11-1046Hosted the 12th Huo Yingdong Youth Teacher Fund Project ()

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Published papers and works (Corresponding author):


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  1. *Lingulellotreta18(11): 945-973. . 2023. Evolutionary contingency in lingulid brachiopods across mass extinctions. Current Biology 33(8): 15651572.

  2. Zhang, Z.F.HStrotz, L.C, Knaust, D., Wang, J.Y., Liang, Y.Zhang, Z.F. 202DistiFang, R.S., Liang, Y., Chen, Y.L., Liu, F., Hua, H., Holmer, L.E., *, 2022. Late Ediacaran cavity-dwelling filamentous microorganisms accommodated in a valve-like organism from the uppermost Dengying Formation in eastern Yunnan of South China. Precambrian Research, 379: 106820.

  3. * Zhang Z F.*Nature599: 251-255. (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04033-w)

  4. Zhang, Z.F.Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., * 2022. A fresh look at the hyolithid  from the Early Cambrian (Stage 4) Shipai Formation of the Three Gorges Area, Hubei, South China. Biology 11(6), 875. & nbsp;

  5. Zhang, Z.F.Hu, Y.Z., Holmer, L.E., Liang, Y., Duan, X.L. & *Hu, Y.Z., Knaust, D., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & *Duan X.L., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & *Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., * 2021. Soft part preservation in hyolithids from the lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Biota of South China and its implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 562(2021)110079. 

  6. Zhang, Z.F., 2021. Go large or go conical: Allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachopod. Palaeontology 64(5): 727-741. 

  7. Zhang, Z.F*.Duan X.L., Betts, M.J., Holmer, L.E., Chen, Y.L., Liu, F., Liang, Y., & *Hu, Y.Z., Knaust, D., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & *. 2021. Burrows filled with faecal pellets from theCambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan biota of South China and their palaeoecological implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 567(2):110249. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110249

  8. Duan X.L., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & . 2021. First report of acrotretoid brachiopod shell beds in the lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Biota of eastern Yunnan, South China. Journal of Paleontology , doi: 10.1017/jpa.2020.66 

  9. Zhang, Z.F. 2021. Early Cambrian (Stage 4) brachiopods from the Shipai Formation in the Three Gorges area of South China. Journal of Paleontology 95(1):  Zhang, Z.L., Ghobadi Pour, M., Popov, L.E., Holmer, L.E., Chen, F.Y., Chen, Y.L., Brock, G.A., 2021. The oldest Cambrian trilobite-brachiopod association in South China. Gondwana Research 89(2021): 147-167.Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B., Duan, X.Zhang, Z.F.Heliomedusa orientaLethaia   https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12379 Liang, Y., Holmer, L. E., Hu, Y.Z.,*First report of brachiopods with soft parts from the Lower Cambrian Latham Shale (series 2, stage 4), California. Science Bulletin . 

  10. Zhang, Z.F.& Shu, D.G. 2020. Are hyoliths Palaeozoic lophophorates? 7(2):  

  11. Zhang, Z.F.Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., * 2020., Zhang, Z.F.*, 2020. Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, Wuding County, eastern Yunnan. Journal of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-043

  12. Zhang, Z.FChen, F.Y., *, Betts, M.J., Zhang, Z.L., Liu, F., 2019. First report on Guanshan Biota (Cambrian Stage 4) at the stratotype area of Wulongqing Formation in Malong County, Eastern Yunnan. Geoscience Frontiers 10: 1459-1476. Zhang Z.F*Zhang, Z.F., Holmer, L. E., Brock, G. A., Topper, T. P., 2018. Paleoecological complexities during Cambrian explosion: evidence from brachiopods. Permophiles 66 (Sup.1):131-132.

  13. Zhang, Z.F. 2018. BMC evolutionary biology 18: 42.

  14. Zhang, Z.F*

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