Professional:Lecturer
Department:Paleontology Teaching and Research Office
Direction:Research on the Cambrian Explosion and the Evolution of Arthropods
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Wu, Y., Pates, S., Zhang, M., Lin, W., Ma, J., Liu, C., Wu, Y.-H., Zhang, X. & Fu, D. 2024. Exceptionally preserved radiodont arthropods from the Lower Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang Lagerst ä tte of Hubei, South China and the biogeographic and diversification patterns of radiodonts. Papers in Palaeontology, 10, e1583. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1583
Wu, Y., Pates, S., Liu, C., Zhang, M., Lin, W., Ma, J., Wu, Y.-H., Chai, S., Zhang, X. & Fu, D. 2024. A new radiodont from the lower Cambrian (Series 2 Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerst ä tte, South China informs the evolution of feeding structures in radiodonts. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 22, 2364887. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2364887
Wu, Y., Pates, S., Daniel Pauly, Zhang, X. & Fu, D. 2024. Rapid growth in a large Cambrian apex predator. National Science Review, 11, nwad284. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad284
Wu, Y., Pates, S., Ma, J., Lin, W., Wu, Y.-H., Zhang, X. & Fu, D. 2022. Addressing the Chengjiang conundrum: A palaeoecological view on the rarity of hurdiid radiodonts in this most diverse early Cambrian Lagerst ätte. Geoscience Frontiers, 13, 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2022.101430
Wu, Y., Ma, J., Lin, W., Ao Sun, Zhang, X. & Fu, D. 2021. New anomalocaridids (Panarthropoda: Radiodonta) from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst ätte: Biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 569, 110333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110333
Wu, Y., Fu, D., Ma, J., Lin, W., Sun, A. & Zhang, X. 2021. Houcaris gen. nov. from the early Cambrian (Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerstä tte expanded the palaeogeographical distribution of tamisiocaridids (Panarthropoda: Radiodonta). PalZ, 95, 209–221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00545-4
Wu, Y., Fu, D., Zhang, X., Daley, A.C. & Shu, D. 2016. Dimorphism of bivalved arthropod Branchiocaris? yunnanensis from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 90, 818–836. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.12725
Zhang, M., Wu, Y.*, Lin, W., Ma, J., Wu, Y.-H. & Fu, D. 2023. Amplectobeluid Radiodont Guanshancaris gen. nov. from the Lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Lagerst ä tte of South China: Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications. Biology, 12, 583. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12040583
Wu Yu, Fu Dongjing, Zhang Xingliang 2025. Scorpaeniformes: Exploring the Evolution of Top Marine Predators in the Cambrian Era Nature Magazine, 47 (2), 116-124. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.0253-9608.2024.06.011
Potin, G.J.-M. Claisse, P., Tr ébaol, A., Gueriau, P. Wu, Y., Pates, S., and Daley, A.C. 2025. A new giant nektobenthic radiodont benthivore from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota in Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 709–722. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01278.2025 Corthesya, N., Potin, G. J.-M., Torchet, A., Quintasa, I., Wu, Y., Lynch, S., Daley, A. C. & Saleh, F. 2025. Decay experiments on shrimps provide insight into the fossilisation potential of arthropod appendages. Open Palaeontology, 2, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.opal.2025.7073 Wu, Y., Liu, C., Wu, Y., Zhang, M., Hao, S.-D., Ma, J., Lin, W. & Fu, D. 2025. A reappraisal of the early Cambrian artiopod Acanthomeridion serratum reveals cephalic appendages specialized for durophagy. Journal of the Geological Society, 182 (4): jgs2024-156. https://doi.org/10.1144/