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Name:
Liang Kun
Education:
Ph.D.
Title:
Academic title:
Associate Professor
Postal Code:
210008
Subject categories:
palaeontology
Mailing Address:
39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
E-mail:
kliang@nigpas.ac.cn
Resume

　　2000/09-2004/07，Beijing Forestry University, Balchelor, Biology

　　2004/09-2007/07，Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, M. S., Botany

　　2008/03-2010/02，Andong National University, M. S., Historical Geology

　　2010/03-2013/08，Andong National University, Ph. D., Historical Geology

　　 

　　After working in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontolgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, I have focused on the taxonomy, diversity change and paleoecology of Devonian corals and stromatoporoids. By conducting the morphometric statistical analysis of important taxa of Paleozoic corals and stromatoporoids, I found the earliest known Catenipora from North China and proved that the halysitid tabulate corals should be an independent order of the subclass Tabulata. I also systematically collected samples from various typical sections in South China, Xinjiang, and Tibet, and investigate the distributions, species-level of diversity change, biotic interactions and community changes of Devonian tabulate corals and stromatoporoids by large amounts of thin sections and acetate serial peels, especially for the recovery of coral-stromatoporoid reefs after the F-F crisis which was neglected by most previous studies. My detailed work on the taxonomy and diversity of corals and stromatoporoids will improve our understanding on the paleogeographic comparisons between continents and plates by concrete examples and evdidences.

Research direction
        Paleozoic corals and stromatoporoids.
Achievements:
 
Research:

After working in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, I have got the following projects as chief investigator:

“New technology and New methods” fund of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

“Comparative studies on the morphometrics and growth characteristics of Chinese and Estonian Halysitidae” of National Science Foundation of China

“Systematic and paleoecology of Devonian stromatoporoids” of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy

Publications:

Kun Liang*, Yichun Zhang, Jitao Chen, Mao Luo, Wen Guo, Wenkun Qie, 2023. Middle Devonian (Givetian) coral-stromatoporoid patch reefs from the Lazhuglung Formation, Xizang (Tibet) and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeoworld, 10.1016/j.palwor.2023.02.005.

Juwan Jeon, Kun Liang*, Stephen Kershaw, Jino Park, Mirinae Lee, Yuandong Zhang, 2022. Rise of clathrodictyid stromatoporoids during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: insights from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China, Journal of Paleontology, 96: 1285–1317

Juwan Jeon, Kun Liang*, Jino Park, Stephen Kershaw, Yuandong Zhang, Diverse labechiid stromatoporoids from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China and their paleobiogeographic implications, Journal of Paleontology, 2022, 96: 513–538

Juwan Jeon, Qijian Li, Lin Na, Kun Liang*, Yuandong Zhang, Skeletal variation in the early clathrodictyid stromatoporoids of Upper Ordovician and its paleoecological and phylogenetic implications, Palaeoworld, 2022, 31: 58–68

Jiayuan Huang, Kun Liang, Yue Wang, Stephen Kershaw, Juwan Jeon, Yue Li, Wenkun Qie, Stromatoporoids from a Middle Devonian reef in South China and their palaeoecological implication, 2022, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 67: 711–736

Jiayuan Huang, Kun Liang*, Wenkun Qie*, 2020. The Jiwozhai patch reef: A palaeobiodiversity hotspot in middle Givetian (Devonian) of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020, 15: 10985

Juwan Jeon, Kun Liang*, Mirinae Lee, Stephen Kershaw, Earliest known spatial competition between stromatoporoids: evidence from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China, Journal of Paleontology, 2020, 94:1–10

Juwan Jeon, Kun Liang*, Jino Park, Suk-Joo Choh, Dong-Jin Lee, Late Ordovician stromatoporoids from the Xiazhen Formation of South China: Paleoecological and paleogeographical implications, Geological Journal, 2020, 55:197–209

Kun Liang*, Wenkun Qie, Luozhong Pan, Baoan Yin, morphometrics and palaeoecology of syringoporoid tabulate corals from the upper Famennian (Devonian) Etoucun Formation, Huilong, South China, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2019, 99(1):101–115.

Kun Liang, Robert J. Elias, Dong-Jin Lee, The early record of halysitid tabulate corals, and morphometrics of Catenipora from the Ordovician of north-central China, Papers in Palaeontology, 2018, 4(3): 363–379

Kun Liang, Robert J. Elias, Dong-Jin Lee, Morphometrics, growth characteristics, and phylogenetic implications of Halysites catenularius (Tabulatta, Silurian, Estonian), Journal of Paleontology, 2018, doi: 10.1017/jpa.2018.73

Olev Vinn, Kun Liang, Ursula Toom, Endobiotic rugose coral symbionts in Silurian tabulate corals from Estonia (Baltica), Palaios, 2017, 32(3):158–165

Kun Liang, Dong-Jin Lee, Robert J. Elias, Morphometrics and paleoecology of Catenipora (Tabulata) from the Xiazhen Formation (Upper Ordovician), Zhuzhai, South China, Journal of Paleontology, 2016, 90(6):1027–1048

廖卫华，梁昆*，罗正江. 2020. 新疆北部密西西比亚纪早期无鳞板的单体珊瑚. 古生物学报, 59(3):318-328

王玉珏，梁昆，陈波，宋俊俊，郭文，乔丽，黄家园，郄文昆. 2020. 晚泥盆世F-F大灭绝事件研究进展. 地层学杂志, 44(3): 277–298

黄家园，梁昆，王玉珏，郄文昆. 2019. 全球泥盆纪生物礁演化及其影响因素，地层学杂志, 43（2）：198–209 

廖卫华，梁昆*，2019. 贵州省惠水县王佑中泥盆世晚期的四射珊瑚(一)，古生物学报，2019，58(1)：11–22.

廖卫华，梁昆*. 2020. 贵州省惠水县王佑中泥盆世晚期的四射珊瑚(二), 古生物学报, 59(2):179–191