Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, People’s Republic of China; yangxf@ynu.edu.cn
http://www.yklp.ynu.edu.cn/info/1016/1212.htm
Education
2008: PhD Palaeontology and Stratgraphy - Nanjing institute of geology and palaeontology
2004: MSc Community Ecology - Northeast Forestry University
1998: BSc Evolutionary Biology - Harbin Normal University
Grants and Awards
2015-2019: NSFC- regional grant (41562001).
2011-2013: NSFC-regional Grant (41062001).
2010-2012: NIGPAS open Grant (103113)
2009-2012: Yunnan provincial basic research Grant (2009CD005)
2009-2011: Yunnan University Grant of science and technology (KL080020)
2009-2012: Key Grant of the Yunnan Provincial Education Department (09Z0009)
2007-2009: The engineering project of knowledge innovation of the CAS (KZCX-YW-122)
2007-2009: NSFC- young Grant（40602002）
2007: First prize in the progress of Natural Science in Jiangsu
Monographs (participatory writing)
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology., eds., 2013, GSSP-global standard stratotype-sections and points in China: Zhejiang University Press.
Peng, S-C., Babcock, L.E., and Zhu M-Y., 2005, Cambrian System of China and Korea guide to Field Excursions eds.: University of Science and Technology of China Press.
Publications
Yang, X.-F., Peng, S.-C., Loren E. Babcock, Zhu, X.-J and Liu, Y. 2022. New species of Liostracina Monke, 1903 (Trilobita, Cambrian) from Yunnan, China: complete holaspid exoskeleton and implications for higher level classification，Journal of Paleontology,1-16. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2022.56.
Yang X.-F., Kimmig Julien, Zhai D.-Y., Liu Y., Kimmig S.R. and Peng S.-C.2021. A juvenile-rich palaeocommunity of the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota sheds light on palaeo-boom or palaeo-bust environments. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1082–1090.
Yang X.-F., Kimmig Julien, Bruce S. Lieberman and Peng S.-C.2020. A new species of the deuterostome Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of South China. The Science of Nature,107;37.
Peng S-C, Yang X-F, Liu Y, Zhu X.-J. Sun H.-J., Samuel Zamor, Mao Y.-Y. and Zhang Y.-C..2020. Fulu biota, a new exceptionally-preserved Cambrian fossil assemblage from the Longha Formationin southeastern Yunnan. Palaeoworld 29, 453-461
Ou, Q, Jean Vannier, Yang X-F, Chen A.-L., Shu D.-G., Mai H.-J., Han J., Fu D.-J., Wang R, and Georg Mayer.2020. Evolutionary trade-off in reproduction of Cambrian arthropods. Science Advances, 6: eaaz3376
Yang, X-F., et al., 2018, New occurrence of Facivermis in the Guanshan biota-bearing Tsanglangpu Formation (Cambrian Stage 4, series 2), eastern Yunnan, China (in preparation).
Yang X-F., et al., 2015, The first observation of complete Macrocystella from the Upper Cambrian (Furongian, Sandu Formation) of Guangxi province, South China: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, p. 573.
Yang, X-F., Vinn, O., Hou, X-G., and Tian, X-L., 2013, New tubicolous problematic fossil with some “lophophorate” affinities from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang biota in south China: GFF, v. 135, p. 184-190.
Vannier, J., Yang X-F., Rudy L.A., and Legg, D., 2012, Waptia: a forgotten Burgess shale arthropod revisited: Newsletter of the Palaeontological Association, v.81, p. 92.
Peng, S-C., Babcock, L.E., Zuo, J-X., Zhu, X-J., Lin, H.L., and Yang X-F., Qi, Y-P., Bagnoli, G., and Wang, L-W., 2012, Global Standard Stratotype-Section and Point(GSSP) for the Base of the Jiangshanian Stage (Cambrian: Furongian) at Duibian, Jiangshan, Zhejiang, Southeast China: Episodes, v. 35, p. 462-477.
Yang X-F., 2011, The first record of Parablackwelderia Kobayashi, 1942 from Laiwu and Xintai, Shandong, China and its stratigraphic significance: Journal of stratigraphy, v. 35, p. 209-218. [in Chinese]
Yang X-F., 2011, New advances in the biostratigraphical study of the Kushan Formation of the Upper Cambrian, North china: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, v. 67, p. 312-313.
Yang X-F., Hou X-G., Tian X-L., 2010, The study of clustered behavior from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: Abstract volume of Papers from Palaeontological society of China, p. 30-32. [in Chinese]
Yang X-F., Hou X-G., 2009, The oldest known example of trilobite ecdysis (chengjiang biota, Cambrian) in Smith, M., O’Brien, L., and Bernard, J., eds., International conference on the Cambrian explosion abstract volume, p. 1-111.
Peng, S-C., Babcock, L.E., Zuo, J-X., Lin, H-L., Zhu, X-J., Yang X-F., Robison, R.A., Qi, Y-P., Bagnoli, G., and Chen, Y-A., 2009, The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Guzhangian Stage (Cambrian) in the Wuling Mountains, Northwestern Hunan, China: Episodes, v. 32, p. 41-55.
Peng, S-C., Yang X-F., Hughes, N.C., 2008, The old eye-stalked trilobite, Parablackwelderia Kobayashi, 1942 (Damesellinae, Cambrian) and its occurrence in Shandong, China: Journary of Palaeontology, v. 82, p. 842–850.
Yang X-F., Peng, S-C., 2007, Two junior hononyms of Chinese Cambrian trilobite genera and their replacement names: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 46, p. 491-492. [in Chinese]
Yang X-F., Peng, S-C., 2006, First record of Parablackwelderia (Cambrian, trilobite) from Laiwu and Xintai, Shandong, China and its stratigraphy, Ancient Life and Modern Approaches in Yang, Q., Wang, Y-D., and Weldon, E.A., eds.: Abstracts of the international palaeontonlogical Congress, p.312.
Yang X-F., Zhou, Z-Q., Rui, L-T., and Peng, S-C., 2005, Trilobite fauna of Datong and Huzhu area in Qilian Mountain Region, Qinhai and its stratigraphyic significance: Acta Micropalaeontontologica Sinica, v. 22, p. 211-212.
Peng, S-C., Babcock, L.E., Zuo, J-X., Lin, H-L., Chen, Y-G., Zhu, X-J., Yang X-F., and Li, Y., 2005, Cambrian-Ordovician stratigraphy at Luo Yixi and Wang Cun, Hunan Province, China, in Peng, S-C., Babock, L.E., and Zhu, M-Y., eds., Stratotypes for bases of the Wangcunian and Youshuian stages and candidate stratotype for the base of an unnamed global stage defined by the FAD of Lejopyge laevigata: Cambrian System of China and Korea, p.117-135.
Research interest
Chengjiang biota paleobiology, community palaeoecology, taphonomy, and
Cambrian trilobite biostratigraphy.