Areas of Focus
- Early Paleozoic stratigraphy and graptolite fauna
- Early Paleozoic paleogeography
- Early Paleozoic biological events and environmental changes
Work Experience
- 2001-07--Present, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Doctoral Supervisor
- 2000-11--2002-05, Technical University of Berlin, Department of Applied Geosciences, Max Planck Scholar
- 1998-12--Present, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Researcher
- 1996-07--1997-02, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, Visiting Researcher
- 1994-06--1998-11, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Researcher
- 1993-07--1994-05, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1990-09--1993-06 PhD in Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1987-09--1990-06 Master's Degree, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1983-09--1987-06 Bachelor's Degree, Changchun Institute of Geology
Publications
- First documentation of Middle Ordovician warm-water carbonates in the Mount Jolmo Lungma (Mount Everest) area, southern Xizang (Tibet), China, and its paleogeographic implications, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
- Filling the gap between the Cambrian Explosion and the GOBE — Proceedings of the IGCP 653 Annual Meeting 2017 in Yichang, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
- Early Evolution of Marine Planktonic and Nektonic Ecosystems: Questions and Chinese Approaches, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
- Ordovician integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
- A candidate stem-group rossellid (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from the latest Ordovician Anji Biota, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Biostratigraphical constraints on the disconformity within the Upper Ordovician in the Baoshan and Mangshi regions, western Yunnan Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Biostratigraphical evidence for the timing of the Miaopo Formation boundary in the Middle Yangtze Region, Ordovician System, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Conodonts and their stratigraphic significance in the Upper Ordovician Guniutan Formation to Pagoda Formation in the Yichang area, Hubei Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Radiolarian fauna of the Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation in the Lunshan area of Jiangsu Province and the Yichang area of Hubei Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Suborder Dichograptina: Introduction, Morphology, and Systematic Descriptions, Treatise online, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Suborder Sinograptina: Introduction, Morphology, and Systematic Descriptions, Treatise online, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
- Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology, Part V, Second Revision, Chapter 18: Order Graptoloidea and Family Anisograptidae: Introduction, Morphology, and Systematic Descriptions., Yuandong Zhang, 2017
- Flourishing sponge-based ecosystems after the End-Ordovician mass extinction, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
- Discovery of missing link between demosponges and hexactinellids confirms palaeontological model of sponge evolution, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
- A quantitative study of the Ordovician cephalopod species Sinoceras chinense (Foord) and its palaeobiogeographic implications, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
- Reconstruction of a shallow intraplatform depression by microfacies analysis of the Upper Ordovician Miaopo and Datianba formations in the northwestern Yangtze Region, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
- Llandovery graptolite fauna and its individual development from the Datianba Formation in western Hunan Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
- Huaiyuan Epeirogeny —Shaping Ordovician stratigraphy and sedimentation on the North China Platform, Yuandong Zhang, 2016
- Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy in the Tarim Basin, NW China, Yuandong Zhang, 2016
- Early Ordovician conodonts from Zhejiang Province, southeast China and their biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic implications, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
- Carbon isotope records of the Middle–Upper Ordovician transition in Yichang area, South China, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
- Floian (Early Ordovician) conodont-based biostratigraphy and biogeography of the Australasian Superprovince, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
- A long-overdue systematic revision of Ordovician graptolite faunas from New South Wales, Australia, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
- A preliminary study on the relationship of the early dicranograptids based on cladistic analysis, Yuandong Zhang, 2014
- Graptolite fauna of the Hungshihyen Formation (Early Ordovician), eastern Yunnan, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2014
- New conodont material from the Early Ordovician Banqiao section in Lin'an, Zhejiang, and its significance, Yuandong Zhang, 2014
- The age of the Hongshiyao Formation, Ordovician System, in eastern Yunnan Province, Yuandong Zhang, 2013
Awards
- 2016: State Council Special Allowance, National
- 2014: National 'Millions of Talents' Project, First Prize, National
- 2013: Jiangsu Province 333 High-Level Talent Project, Provincial
- 2008: Cambrian and Ordovician Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) and Chronostratigraphic Division, Second Prize, National
- 2006: Chinese Geological Society Youth Geological Science and Technology Award, First Prize, National
- 2005: Jiangsu Province Outstanding Contribution Middle-aged and Young Expert, First Prize, Provincial
- 2000: Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Youth, First Prize, Academy
- 1999: Jiangsu Province Young Scientist Award, First Prize, Provincial
- 1999: Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Postdoctoral, First Prize, Academy
- 1998: Ordovician Darriwilian Stage Boundary Stratotype and Comparison of Chinese Ordovician System, Second Prize, Ministry
- 1993: Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Scholarship, First Prize, Academy
