Early Palaeozoic cephalopod and associated palaeoecology and palaeogeography.

2022

Fang, X., Mao, Y.Y., Liu, Q., Yuan, W.W., Chen, Z.Y., Wu, R.C., Li, L.X., Zhang, Y.C., Ma, J.Y., Wang, W.H., Zhan, R.B., Peng, S.C., Zhang, Y.D., Huang, D.Y.*, 2022. The Liexi fauna: a new Lagerst？tte from the Lower Ordovician of South China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20221027.

Fang, X.*, Chen, T.E., Wang, W.H., Zhang, Y.B., 2022. Middle–Late Ordovician cephalopod faunas from western Hunan and Hubei provinces, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 61(2): 197–216. (in Chinese)

Chen, Z.Y.*, Guo, W., Fang, X., Li, W.J., Song, J.J., Qie, W.K., Zhang, Y.C., 2022. Silurian conodonts from the Nyalam region, southern Xizang (Tibet), China, and their biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 588: 110838.

Chen X.*, Yu, S.Y., Fang, X., Li, W.J., Lucy Muir, Zhang, Y.D., 2022. New Silurian graptolite material from Nyalam, southern Xizang (Tibet), China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 61(4): 524–540. (in Chinese)

Pohle, A.*, Kr？ger, B., Warnock R.C.M., King, A.H., Evans, D.H., Aubrechtová, M., Cichowolski, M., Fang, X., Klug, C., 2022. Early cephalopod evolution clarified through Bayesian phylogenetic inference. BMC Biology, 20: 88.

Zhang, J.P.*, Lyons, T.W., Li, C., Fang, X., Chen, Q., Botting, J.P., Zhang, Y.D., 2022. What triggered the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME)? Perspectives from geobiology and biogeochemical modeling. Global and Planetary Change, 216: 103917.

Zhang, J.P.*, Li, C., Fang, X., Li, W.J., Deng, Y.Y., Tu, C.Y., Algeo, T.J., Lyons, T.W., Zhang, Y.D., 2022. Progressive expansion of seafloor anoxia in the Middle to Late Ordovician Yangtze Sea: Implications for concurrent decline of invertebrate diversity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 598: 117858.

2021

Fang, X., Li, C., Li, W.J., Burrett, C.*, Udchachon, M., Zhang, Y.D., 2021. Sinoceras chinense (Foord, 1888) in western Thailand: first identification outside China. Palaeoworld, 30(2): 278–285.

Fang, X.*, Pohle, A., Kr？ger, B., Aubrechtová, M., Burrett, C., Zhang, Y.B., Zhang, Y.D., 2021. Phylogeny of Middle–Late Ordovician lituitid cephalopods based on cladistic analysis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 19(9): 633–650.

Deng, Y.Y., Fan, J.X.*, Zhang, S.H., Fang, X., Chen, Z.Y., Shi, Y.K.*, Wang, H.W., Wang, X.B., Yang, J., Hou, X.D., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.D., Chen, Q., Yang, A.H., Fan, R., Dong, S.C., Xu, H.Q., Shen, S.Z., 2021. Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: perspectives from South China. Earth-Science Review, 220: 103743.

Mao, Y.Y., Fang, X., Yu, S.Y., Song, Y.Y., Li, Y.*, 2021. First record of Cheirocrinus penniger (Eichwald, 1842) (Cystoidea) from the Ordovician Miaopo Formation in western Hubei, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 60(2): 215–223. (in Chinese)

Yu, S.Y.*, Fang, X., Zhang, Y.D., Zhen, Y.Y., Li, W.J., Li, Y., Munnecke, A.*, 2021. First record of the Middle Darriwilian δ13C excursion (MDICE) in southern Xizang (Tibet), China, and its implications. Carbonates and Evaporites, 36(2): 33.

Zhang, Y.D.*, Zhan, R.B., Yuan, W.W., Tang, P., Li, Y., Wang, Z.H., Zhou, Z.Y., Fang, X., Li, W.J., Cheng, J.F., 2021. Lithostratigraphic subdivision and correlation of the Ordovician in China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 45(3): 250–270. (in Chinese)

2020：

Fang, X., Li, W.J., Zhang, J.P.*, Song, Y.Y., Zhang, Y.D., 2020. Paleo-environmental changes during the Middle–Late Ordovician transition on the Yangtze Platform, South China and their ecological implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 560: 109991.

Fang, X., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, Z.H.*, Zhen, Y.Y., Zhou, Z.Q., Zhang, J.P., Zhang, L.N., 2020. Advanced of the conodont biostratigraphy of the Ordovician “Chientsaokou” and Pagoda formations in Ningqiang, Shaanxi Province, and Guangyuan, Sichuan Province. Acta Miropalaeontologica Sinica, 37(2): 129–144. (in Chinese)

Fang, X., Li, W.J., Yu, S.Y., Zhen, Y.Y., Zhang, Y.D.*, 2020. Ordovician stratigraphy of the southern and central Xizang (Tibet), China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 44(4): 349–365. (in Chinese)

Chen, Z.Y., M？nnik, P., Wang, C.Y.*, Fang, X., Chen, T.E., Ma, X., Zhang, Y.D., 2020. Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Laojianshan section, Baoshan, Yunnan Province, SW China. Geological Journal, 55(9): 6427–6441.

Zhang, Y.D.*, Zhan, R.B., Zhen, Y.Y., Fang, X., Zhang, J.P., 2020. Challenges and future perspectives of Ordovician studies in China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 44(4): 339–348. (in Chinese)

Zhen, Y.Y.*, Zhang, Y.D.*, Harper, D.A.T., Zhan, R.B., Fang, X., Wang, Z.H., Yu, S.Y., Li, W.J., 2020. Ordovician successions in southern-central Xizang (Tibet), China—Refining the stratigraphy of the Himalayan and Lhasa terranes. Gondwana Research, 83: 372–389.

2019

Fang, X.*, Kr？ger, B., Zhang, Y.D., Zhang, Y.B., Chen, T.E., 2019. Palaeogeographic distribution and diversity of cephalopods during the Cambrian–Ordovician transition. Palaeoworld, 28(1–2): 51–57.

Fang, X.*, Burrett, C., Li, W.J., Zhang, Y.B., Zhang, Y.D., Chen, T.E., Wu, X.J. 2019. Dynamic variation of Middle to Late Ordovician cephalopod provincialism in the northeastern peri-Gondwana region and its implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 521: 127–137.

Fang, X.*, Li, W.J., Zhang, Y.D., Zhang, Y.B., Chen, T.E., 2019. Replacements of Major Cephalopod Faunas in Late Cambrian and Ordovician in South China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93(z1): 102–105.

Fang, X., Zhen, Y.Y., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, Z.H*., Li, W.J., Ma, X., 2019. New data of Middle–Upper Ordovician Datianba Formation biostratigraphy from Yongshun and Taoyuan areas, Hunan, China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 43(2): 158–170. (in Chinese)

Li, W.J., Fang, X., Zhang, Y.D.*, 2019. Geographical Distribution and Diversity History of Late Cambrian and Ordovician Gastropods in China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93(z1): 119–122.

Li, W.J., Chen, J.T.*, Wang, L.W., Fang, X., Zhang, Y.D., 2019. Slump sheets as a record of regional tectonics and paleogeographic changes in South China. Sedimentary Geology, 392: 105525.

Yu, S.Y., Fang, X., Munnecke, A., Li, W.J., Zhen, Y.Y., Li, Y., Wang, Z.H., Zhang, Y.D.*, 2019. First documentation of Middle Ordovician warm water carbonates in the Mount Jolmo Lungma (Mount Everest) area, southern Xizang (Tibet), China and its paleogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 530: 136–151.

Zhang, Y.D.*, Zhan, R.B., Zhen, Y.Y., Wang, Z.H., Yuan, W.W., Fang, X., Ma, X., Zhang, J.P., 2019. Ordovician integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Science China Earth Science, 62(1): 61–88.

Zhang, Y.D.*, Zhang, J.P., Yan, K., Fang, X., Li, W.J., Ma, X., Wu, X.J., 2019. Early Evolution of Marine Planktonic and Nektonic Ecosystems: Questions and Chinese Approaches. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93(z1): 169–172.

2018

Fang, X., Ma, X., Li, W.J., Zhang, Y.D.*, Zhou, Z.Q., Chen, T.E., Lü, Y., Yu, S.Y., Fan, J.X., 2018. Biostratigraphic constraint of the disconformity within the Upper Ordovician in the Baoshan and Mangshi regions, western Yunnan Province, China. Lethaia, 51(2): 312–323.

Fang, X., Chen, T.E., Burrett, C., Wang, Y.S., Qu, Y.G., Zheng, C.Z., Zhang, Y.B., Zhang, Y.D.*, Li, W.J., 2018. Middle Ordovician actinocerid nautiloids (Cephalopoda) from Xainza County, Tibet, western China and their paleogeographic implications. Journal of Paleontology, 92(3): 398–411.

Song, Y.Y., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, Z.H., Fang, X., Ma, X., Liu, P.J., 2018. Diachroneity of the base of Ordovician Miaopo Formation in the middle Yangtze Region, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 42(2): 128–144. (in Chinese)