PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2023.03 – Present | Research Professor Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS

2017.03 – 2023.02 | Associate Research Professor Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS

2014.08 – 2017.02 | Assistant Research Professor Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS

HIGHER EDUCATION

2011.09 – 2014.07 | Ph.D. in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, China

2008.09 – 2011.07 | M.Sc. in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, China

2004.09 – 2008.07 | B.Sc. in Biology Nanyang Normal University, China

Monographs & Books

Wang, G.X. (2026). Systematics and Evolution of Cyathophylloidid and Stauriid Rugose Corals (Late Ordovician–Mid-Silurian). Fossils and Strata 73, 1–195.

Wang, G.X. and Cui, Y.N. (2025). Systematics and evolution of agetolitid tabulate corals. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 273–361.

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., et al. (2020). Silurian Stratigraphy and Index Fossils of China. Zhejiang University Press, 365 pp. (In Chinese).

Edited Special Issues

Wang, G.X. and Zhan, R.B. (Eds). (2023). Ordovician in the Western Yangtze Region, South China Palaeoplate. Palaeoworld, 32, 197–366.

Ma, X.Y., Wang, G.X., and Wang, M. (Eds). (2022). The Impact of Chinese Palaeontology on Evolutionary Research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1847).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters

2026

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., 2026. Stratigraphic refinement unveils high-resolution shallow marine biotic dynamics immediately preceding the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction in South China. Continent and Life Evolution, 1, 0002.

Cui, Y.N., Wang, G.X., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.C., Zhan, R.B. 2026. Middle Katian trabeculate heliolitid corals from the North Qilian Mountains of Northwest China. Palaeoworld, 201112.

Jeon, J., Chen, Z.Y., Wang, G.X., Zhang, Y.D., 2026. Middle Llandovery (Silurian) stromatoporoids from Baingoin, Xizang (Tibet), China. Journal of Palaeogeography 15, 100336.

2025

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Jin, J., Chen, Z.Y., Percival, I.G., Wei, X., Liang, Y., Cui, Y.N., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.T., 2025. Northeastern Indian origin of the Lhasa terrane. Gondwana Research 147, 184–191.

Wang, G.X., Wei, X., 2025. First coral from the Katian (Upper Ordovician) dolostones of the western Yangtze Platform in South China. Alcheringa 49, 548–554.

Wang, Y., Fang, Z.J., Harper, D.A.T., Zhang, Y.C., Wei, X., Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., 2024. New Ordovician bivalves from the Indochina Palaeoplate in Dali, western Yunnan, Southwest China and their palaeogeographic significance. Palaeoworld 34, 100883.

2024

Chen, Z.Y., Chen, Q., Wang, G.X., Fang, X., Tang, P., Yan, G.Z., Yuan, W.W., Huang, B., Zhang, X.L., Yan, K., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, Y., 2023. Integrative Silurian stratigraphy, biotas and palaeogeographical evolution of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Science China Earth Sciences 67, 1005–1035.

Fang, X., Zhen, Y.Y., Wang, G.X., Wei, X., Chen, Z.Y., Liang, Y., Wu, X.J., Li, W.J., Li, C., Zhan, R.B., Zhang, Y.D., 2024. Integrative Ordovician stratigraphy, biotas, and palaeogeographical evolutions of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Science China Earth Sciences 67, 971–1004.

Long, H.Y., Li, Y., Yang, D.L., Gong, F.Y., Zhou, L., Jiang, H., Li, C.L., Wang, K., Cui, Y.N., Liao, Z.C., Wu, R.C., Tang, H., Wang, G.X., 2024. Age and distribution of the Upper Ordovician dolostone on the western margin of the Yangtze platform. Journal of Stratigraphy 57, 25–39 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2023

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., 2023. Ordovician in the western Yangtze region, South China Palaeoplate: An outline. Palaeoworld 32, 197–201.

Wang, G.X., Cui, Y.N., Liang, Y., Wu, R.C., Wei, X., Gong, F.Y., Huang, B., Luan, X.C., Tang, P., Li, L.X., Zhang, X.L., Zhang, Y.C., Zhang, Z.T., Wang, Q., Zhan, R.B., 2023. Toward a unified and refined Ordovician stratigraphy for the western Yangtze region, South China. Palaeoworld 32, 202–218.

Wang, G.X., Wei, X., Cui, Y.N., Zhang, X.L., Wang, Q., Zhan, R.B., 2023. Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the Western Yangtze Platform, South China. Geological Journal of China Universities 29, 288–305 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Cui, Y.N., Wang, G.X., 2023. Early Katian, Late Ordovician, heliolitine corals from southern Kuruktag in northeastern Tarim Basin of China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68, 273–295.

Cui, Y.N., Wang, G.X., Percival, I.G., 2023. Early heliolitine tabulate corals from the Sandbian (Upper Ordovician) in the Yunnan-Sichuan border area, SW China. Palaeoworld 32, 252–265.

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Wang, G.X., Wu, R.C., Gong, F.Y., Yan, G.Z., Wang, Q., 2023. Middle–Upper Ordovician chitinozoans from Songliang of Qiaojia, western South China, and their biostratigraphic implications. Palaeoworld 32, 287–302.

Luan, X., Desrochers, A., Wu, R., Liu, J., Wang, G.X., Liang, Y., Zhang, Y.C., Wei, X., Li, L.X., Zhan, R.B., 2023. Reconstruction of the Yangtze Ramp during Floian to Darriwilian (Ordovician) in South China: Its Morphology, Controlling factors and Significances. Acta Geologica Sinica 96, 1756–1777.

Tang, P., Zhang, Y.C., Wang, Y., Huang, Z.B., Yang, Z.L., Li, Q.J., Zhang, X.L., Wang, G.X., Liang, K., Gong, F.Y., Song, J.J., Zhang, Y.Y., Zhan, R.B., 2023. Katian–Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) stratigraphic sequences in the Kalpin–Jiashi area, northwestern Tarim Basin, NW China. Journal of Stratigraphy 47, 363–395 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2022

Wang, G.X., Cui, Y.N., 2022. Chinese names of major fossil coral groups: traditional and recommended usage. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 61, 664–671 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wang, G.X., Cui, Y.N., Wei, X., Wu, R.C., Zhang, Z.T., Wang, Q., Zhan, R.B., 2022c. Late Katian (Late Ordovician) stratigraphy and paleogeography of the western Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 46, 325–345 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wang, G.X., Cui, Y.N., Zhang, Z.T., Wu, R.C., Wei, X., Liang, Y., Luan, X.C., Tang, P., Zhan, R.B., 2022b. Early Katian (Late Ordovician) stratigraphy and paleogeography of the western Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 46, 255–270 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wang, G.X., Liang, Y., Gong, F.Y., Wu, R.C., Cui, Y.N., Zhang, Y.C., Wei, X., Luan, X.C., Zhan, R.B., 2022a. Darriwilian–Sandbian stratigraphy and paleogeography of the southwestern Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 46, 118–137 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Ma, X.Y., Wang, G.X., Wang, M., 2022. Impact of Chinese Palaeontology on Evolutionary Research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377, 1–7.

Yan, G., Lehnert, O., Männik, P., Calner, M., Luan, X., Gong, F., Li, L., Wei, X., Wang, G.X., Zhan, R., Wu, R., 2022. The record of early Silurian climate changes from South China and Baltica based on integrated conodont biostratigraphy and isotope chemostratigraphy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 606, 111245.

Zhan, R.B., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, G.X., Melchin, M., Štorch, P., 2022. Chapter 4, The Silurian GSSPs. In: Zhan, R.B., Zhang, Y.D. (Eds.), Stratigraphic “Golden Spikes”. Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press, Nanjing, pp. 163–222 (in Chinese).

Luan, X.C., Wu, R.C., Wang, G.X., Wei, X., Zhan, R.B., 2022. A brief discussion on the Middle Ordovician ferruginous ooidal deposits in the Upper Yangtze region, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 46, 23–39 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Zhang, X.L., Huang, B., Wang, G.X., Wang, Y., Wu, R.C., Li, L.X., Rong, J.Y., 2022. New insights into the strata straddling the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in northern Zhenxiong, Northeast Yunnan. Journal of Stratigraphy 46, 40–49 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2021

Wang, G.X., Percival, I.G., Zhen, Y.Y., Webby, B., 2021. Late Ordovician corals from allochthonous clasts in the Devonian Drik-Drik Formation of northeastern New South Wales, Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 143, 51–86.

Wang, G.X., Liang, Y., Wei, X., Wu, R.C., Tang, P., Luan, X.C., Cui, Y.N., 2021. A review and clarification of the nomenclature for Ordovician lithostratigraphic units on the western Yangtze Platform of South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 45, 514–531 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wang, G.X., 2021. The discovery of Evolution. In: Rong, J.Y., Zhou, Z.H. (Eds.), The Power of Evolution. Popular Science Press, Beijing, pp. 6–19 (in Chinese).

Cui, Y.N., Wang, G.X., 2021. Revision of late Katian (Late Ordovician) heliolitine corals from northern Kuruktag in northeastern Tarim Basin of China. Alcheringa 45, 178–194.

Luan, X.C., Zhang, X.L., Wu, R.C., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Wang, G.X., Zhang, Y.C., 2021. Environmental changes revealed by lower-middle Ordovician deeper-water marine red beds from the marginal Yangtze platform, South China: Links to biodiversification. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 562, 110116.

2020

Wang, G.X., Percival, I.G., Zhen, Y.Y., 2020. The youngest Ordovician (latest Katian) coral fauna from eastern Australia, in the uppermost Malachis Hill Formation of central New South Wales. Alcheringa 44, 356–378.

Wang, G.X., Wei, X., Luan, X.C., Wu, R.C., Percival, I.G., Zhan, R.B., 2020. Constraining the biotic transitions across the end-Ordovician mass extinction in South China: Bio- and chemostratigraphy of the Wulipo Formation in the Meitan area of northern Guizhou. Geological Journal 55, 6399–6411.

Wang, G.X., Cui, Y.N., 2020. Rugose corals. In: Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., et al. (Eds.), Silurian Stratigraphy and Index Fossils of China. Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, pp. 220–241 (in Chinese).

2019

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Percival, I.G., 2019. The end-Ordovician mass extinction: A single-pulse event? Earth-Science Reviews 192, 15–33.

Liang, Y., Wang, G.X., Servais, T., Wu, R.C., Nõlvak, J., Hints, O., Wei, X., Gong, F.Y., Yan, G.Z., 2019. Age constraints of the Hungshihyen Formation (Early to Middle Ordovician) on the western margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: New insights from chitinozoans. Palaeoworld 29, 66–74.

Ling, M.X., Zhan, R.B., Wang, G.X., Wang, Y., Amelin, Y., Tang, P., Liu, J.B., Jin, J., Huang, B., Wu, R.C., Xue, S., Fu, B., Bennett, V.C., Wei, X., Luan, X.C., Chen, Q., Finnegan, S., Harper, D.A.T., Rong, J.Y., 2019. An extremely brief end Ordovician mass extinction linked to abrupt onset of glaciation. Solid Earth Sciences 4, 190–198.

Huang, B., Harper, D.A.T., Zhou, H.H., Zhan, R.B., Wang, Y., Tang, P., Ma, J.Y., Wang, G.X., Chen, D., Zhang, Y.C., Luan, X.C., Rong, J.Y., 2019. A new Cathaysiorthis (Brachiopoda) fauna from the lower Llandovery of eastern Qinling, China. Papers in Palaeontology 5, 537–557.

Rong, J.Y., Wang, Y., Zhan, R.B., Fan, J.X., Huang, B., Tang, P., Li, Y., Zhang, X.L., Wu, R.C., Wang, G.X., Wei, X., 2019. Silurian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Science China Earth Sciences 62, 89–111.

2018

Wang, G.X., He, X.Y., Tang, L., Percival, I.G., 2018. Silurian amplexoid rugosan genera Pilophyllia Ge and Yu, 1974 and Neopilophyllia new genus from South China. Journal of Paleontology 92, 982–1004.

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Rong, J.Y., Huang, B., Percival, I.G., Luan, X.C., Wei, X., 2018. Exploring the end-Ordovician extinctions in Hirnantian near-shore carbonate rocks of northern Guizhou, SW China: A refined stratigraphy and regional correlation. Geological Journal 53, 3019–3029.

Wu, R.C., Huang, B., Wang, G.X., Wei, X., Zhan, R.B., Tang, P., Luan, X.C., Zhang, Y.C., 2018. The Silurian Zhuxi Formation in the Zhuxi area, northwestern Hubei Province. Journal of Stratigraphy 42, 243–256 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2017

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Huang, B., Percival, I.G., 2017. Coral faunal turnover through the Ordovician-Silurian transition in South China and its global implications for carbonate stratigraphy and macroevolution. Geological Magazine 154, 829–836.

Zhen, Y.Y., Wang, G.X., Percival, I.G., 2017. Conodonts and corals from the Upper Ordovician Angullong Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Alcheringa 41, 141–168.

Tang, P., Huang, B., Wu, R., Fan, J.X., Yan, K., Wang, G.X., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Zhan, R., Rong, J., 2017. On the Upper Ordovician Daduhe Formation of the upper Yangtze region. Journal of Stratigraphy 41, 119–133 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Huang, B., Wang, Y., Tang, P., Wei, X., Zhang, X.L., Wang, G.X., Wu, R.C., Zhang, Y.C., Zhan, R.B., Rong, J.Y., 2017. On the uppermost Xiushan Formation (Llandovery, Silurian) at Jianshi area, Hubei Province. Journal of Stratigraphy 41, 375–385 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wang, Y., Tang, P., Zhang, X.L., Liu, J.B., Zhang, Y.C., Yan, K., Wang, G.X., Huang, B., Zhan, R.B., 2017. Discovery of the nematophyte fossils from the late Silurian Chejiaba Formation, Guangyuan, Sichuan, South China, and their stratigraphical significance. Journal of Stratigraphy 41, 368–374 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2016

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Percival, I.G., 2016. New data on Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) postglacial carbonate rocks and fossils in northern Guizhou, Southwest China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53, 660–665.

Wang, G.X., 2016. The life and times of eminent paleontologist Y. S. Chi (1907–1942), based on his unpublished autobiography. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 55, 254–268 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Huang, B., Zhan, R.B., Wang, G.X., 2016. Recovery brachiopod associations from the lower Silurian of South China and their paleoecological implications. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53, 674–679.

Wang, Y., Rong, J.Y., Tang, P., Wang, G.X., Zhang, X.L., 2016. New Observations on the Silurian Baizitian Section from Yanbian, Western Sichuan, SW China. Journal of Stratigraphy 40, 225–233 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2015

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Percival, I.G., Huang, B., Li, Y., Wu, R.C., 2015. Late Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) carbonate rocks and shelly fossils in Shiqian, northeastern Guizhou, Southwest China. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 48, 241–252.

Wang, G.X., Percival, I.G., Li, R.Y., 2015. Remarks on the pattern of insertion of minor septa in rugose corals. Alcheringa 39, 388–393.

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., 2015. A new species of middle Rhuddanian Halysites (Tabulata) from Meitan, northern Guizhou, Southwest China. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 64, 105–109.

2014

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Deng, Z.Q., Yu, C.M., 2014. Latest Ordovician and earliest Silurian tabulate corals of South China. GFF 136, 290–293.

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., 2014. A new species of Paramplexoides (rugosans) from the Hirnantian Kuanyinchiao Formation of northern Guizhou, South China. In: Zhan, R.B., Huang, B. (Eds.), IGCP 591 Field Workshop 2014, Kunming China, Extended Summary. Nanjing University Press, pp. 178–181.

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., 2014. Chinese translations of the Phanerozoic geological periods (systems). Journal of Stratigraphy 38, 204–207 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Huang, B., Zhan, R.B., Wang, G.X., 2014. Brachiopod associations from late Rhuddanian in South China and their bathymetric significance. In: Zhan, R.B., Huang, B. (Eds.), IGCP 591 Field Workshop 2014, Kunming China, Extended Summary. Nanjing University Press, pp. 57–60.

Zhan, R.B., Huang, B., Wang, G.X., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.D., Li, R.Y., Liu, J.B., Wu, R.C., 2014. Discovery of the late Middle Ordovician Saucrorthis fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Sibumasu palaeoplate, western Yunnan, SW China. GFF 136, 320–326.

2013

Wang, G.X., Zhan, R.B., Deng, Z.Q., Liu, J.B., 2013. Paleoecological associations of middle Llandovery (Silurian) corals from Huaying Mountain, eastern Sichuan province. Science China Earth Sciences 56, 640–646.

Wang, G.X., Guo, Z.F., Zhan, R.B., Jin, J., 2013. A new technique of making serial sections for rugose corals. Palaeoworld 22, 68–71.

Wang, G.X., Yu, C.M., Zhan, R.B., 2013. Earliest known Silurian rugose corals from Meitan, SW China. In: Lindskog, A., Mehlqvist, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd IGCP 591 Annual Meeting – Lund, Sweden. Lund University, pp. 19–20.

Deng, Z.Q., Wang, G.X., 2013. Mesozoic corals and sponges from Gerze and Rutog, Xizang. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 52, 202–212 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wang, Y., Rong, J.Y., Zhan, R.B., Huang, B., Wu, R.C., Wang, G.X., 2013. On the Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata in southwestern Hubei, and the Yichang Uplift. Journal of Stratigraphy 37, 264–274 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Rong, J.Y., Johnson, M.E., Deng, Z.Q., Dong, D.Y., Xue, Y.S., Baarli, B.G., Wang, G.X., 2013. Coral-stromatoporoid faunas from the shores of a late Silurian island, Inner Mongolia, North China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 44, 95–105.

2012

Wang, G.X., 2012. On the Chinese Translation of the Term “Ordovician”. Geological Review 58, 451–452 (in Chinese).

Deng, Z.Q., Wang, G.X., 2012. The Llandoverian coral fauna from Xikeer, western Tarim Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 51, 176–185 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Wu, R.C., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Wang, G.X., 2012. Brief comments on the base of the Dapingian along the margin of the Yangtze Platform. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 29, 352–357 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Rong, J.Y., Wang, Y., Zhan, R.B., Tang, P., Huang, B., Wu, R.C., Wang, G.X., Li, Y., Deng, X.J., 2012. On the Tongzi uplift: Evidences of northward expansion of Qianzhong Oldland during Aeronian, Llandovery, Silurian. Journal of Stratigraphy 36, 679–692 (in Chinese with English abstract).

2011

Wang, G.X., Deng, Z.Q., Zhan, R.B., 2011. Coral fauna of the Baiyun’an Formation (Silurian, Llandovery) from Huaying Mountain, eastern Sichuan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 50, 450–469 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Rong, J.Y., Chen, X., Wang, Y., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Huang, B., Tang, P., Wu, R.C., Wang, G.X., 2011. Northward expansion of Central Guizhou Oldland through the Ordovician and Silurian transition: Evidence and implications. Science China Earth Sciences 41, 1407–1415 (in Chinese).

2010

Wang, G.X., Deng, Z.Q., 2010. Application of cluster analysis to classification of cateniporids. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 49, 478–486 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Zhan, R.B., Wang, G.X., Wu, R.C., 2010. Late Ordovician Foliomena Fauna (Brachiopoda) of South China. Journal of Earth Science 21, 64–69.

Rong, J.Y., Chen, X., Zhan, R.B., Fan, J.X., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.D., Li, Y., Huang, B., Wu, R.C., Wang, G.X., 2010. New observation on Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata of southern Tongzi County, northern Guizhou, Southwest China. Journal of Stratigraphy 34, 337–348 (in Chinese with English abstract).