Publications:

Liang, Y., Nõlvak, J., Hints, O., 2024. Ordovician chitinozoans of the Miaopo Formation at Zhenjin, Upper Yangtze Platform, South China. Palynology, 48: 2271086

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. and Zhang, Y.D., 2024. Ordovician integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and palaeogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Science China Earth Sciences, 67, 971–1004

Tonarová, P.; Suttner, T.; Hints, O.; Liang, Y.; Zemek, M.; Kubajko, M.; Zikmund, T.; Kaiser, J.; Kido, E., 2024: Late Ordovician scolecodonts and chitinozoans from the Pin Valley in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69(2), p. 199–17.

Liang, Y., Hints, O., Nõlvak, J., Tang, P., 2023. On future directions of Ordovician chitinozoan research. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 72: 58–61.

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Wang, G.X., Yan, G.Z., Wang, Q., 2023. Middle-Late Ordovician chitinozoans from Songliang of Qiaojia, western South China, and their biostratigraphic implications. Palaeoworld, 23: 287–302. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2021.11.003

梁艳, 唐鹏, Hints O, Nõlvak J, 张琳娜, 陈焱森. 2023. 几丁虫研究现状及展望. 古生物学报, 62(3): 000–000. DOI: 10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2023003.

Nõlvak, J., Liang, Y., Hints, O., 2023. Latest Ordovician age of the Spinachitina fragilis Chitinozoan Biozone in Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 72: 82–85.

Goldman, D., Leslie, S., Liang, Y., Bergström, S., 2023. Ordovician biostratigraphy: index fossils, biozones and correlation. In: Harper, D. A. T., Lefebvre, B., Percival, I. G. and Servais, T. (eds) A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 1. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 532, 31–62.

Zhang, Y.D., Zhan, R.B., Zhen, Y.Y., Wang, W.H., Liang, Y., Fang, X., Wu, R.C., Yan, K., Zhang, J.P., Li, W.J., 2023. Regional synthesis of the Ordovician geology and stratigraphy of China. In: Harper, D. A. T., Lefebvre, B., Percival, I. G. and Servais, T. (eds) A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 1. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 533, 421–478.

Luan, X.C., Desrochers, A., Wu, R.C., Liu, J.B., 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 - English Edition, 97(6), 1756–1777.

Liang, Y., Nõlvak, J., Xu, H., Chen, Y., Hints, O., 2022. Revision of Ordovician chitinozoan Lagenochitina esthonica sensu lato: morphometrics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography. Journal of Paleontology, 96 (1): 46–60.

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., Wan, Q., Zhan, R.B., 2022. Toward a unified and refined Ordovician stratigraphy for the western Yangtze region, South China. Palaeoworld, 32, 202–218.

Nõlvak, J., Liang, Y., Hints, O., 2022. Early and early Middle Ordovician chitinozoans from the Baldone drill core, central Latvia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 71, 25–43.

王光旭, 崔雨浓, 张竹桐, 吴荣昌, 魏鑫, 梁艳, 栾晓聪, 唐鹏, 詹仁斌, 2022. 扬子台地西缘晚奥陶世凯迪早期地层划分对比与古地理. 地层学杂志, 46(3): 255-270.

Hints, O., Liang, Y., Nõlvak, J., 2021. Possible metazoan egg fossils from the Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) of Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 70, 240–252.

Wang, W.H., Liang, Y., Lyu, Q., Hints, O., Chen, S.F., Nõlvak, J., 2021. Chitinozoans with “skirt”: Ultrastructure and palaeoecological implications of carina in Cyathochitina Eisenack, 1955. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 570, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110348

王光旭, 梁艳, 龚方怡,吴荣昌, 崔雨浓, 张一驰, 魏鑫, 栾晓聪, 詹仁斌,  2022. 扬子台地西南缘奥陶纪达瑞威尔期—桑比期地层划分对比与古地理. 地层学杂志, 46(2): 118-137. [Darriwilian-Sandbian (Ordovician) stratigraphy and paleogeography of the southwestern Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 46, 118–137. (in Chinese, with English Abstract)]

王光旭, 梁艳, 魏鑫, 吴荣昌, 唐鹏, 栾晓聪, 崔雨浓, 2021. 扬子台地西缘奥陶纪岩石地层单位命名问题：回顾与澄清. 地层学杂志, 45(4), 514–531. [A review and clarification of the nomenclature for Ordovician lithostratigraphic units on the western Yangtze Platform of South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 45(4), 514–531. (in Chinese, with English Abstract)]

Liang, Y., Hints, O., Tang, P., Cai, C.Y., Goldman, D., Nõlvak, J., Tihelka, E., Pang, K., Bernardo, J., Wang, W.H., 2020. Fossilized reproductive modes reveal a protistan affinity of Chitinozoa. Geology, v. 48: 1200–1204.

Liang, Y., Wang, G.X., Servais, T., Wu, R.C., Nõlvak, J., Hints, O., Wei, X., Gong, F.Y., Yan, G.Z. 2020. Age constraints of the Hungshiyhen Formation (Early to Middle Ordovician) on the western margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: New insights from chitinozoans. Palaeoworld 29: 66–74.

Liang, Y., Bernardo, J., Goldman, D., Nõlvak, J., Tang, P., Wang, W., Hints, O., 2019. Morphological variation suggests that chitinozoans may be fossils of individual microorganisms rather than metazoan eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286, 20191270.

Liang, Y., Hints, O., Luan, X.C., Nõlvak, J., Tang, P., Wu, R.C. 2019. Palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphical implications of selected Floian and Dapingian (Ordovician) chitinozoans of the South China Palaeoplate. Lethaia., 52: 220-231

梁艳, 栾晓聪. 2019. 湖北兴山古洞口下奥陶统几丁虫. 微体古生物学报 36: 328–336. [Liang, Y., Luan, X.C. Lower Ordovician chitinozoans at the Gudongkou section, Xingshan, Hubei Province. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 36: 328–336 (in Chinese with English Abstract)]

Nõlvak J, Liang Y, Hints O., 2019. Early diversification of Ordovician chitinozoans on Baltica: New data from the Jägala waterfall section, northern Estonia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 525:14–24.

Liang, Y., Hints, O., Luan, X.C., Tang, P., Nõlvak, J., Zhan, R.B. 2018. Lower and Middle Ordovician chitinozoans from Honghuayuan, South China: biodiversity patterns and response to environmental changes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 500: 95–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.002

Liang, Y., Servais, T., Tang, P., Liu, J.B., Wang, W.H., 2017b. Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) chitinozoan biostratigraphy of South China: An update. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 247: 149-163.

Liang, Y., Paris, F., Tang, P., 2017a. Middle-Late Ordovician chitinozoans from the Yichang area, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 244: 26-42.

Luan, X.C., Brett, C.E., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Wu, R.C., Liang, Y., 2017. Microfacies analysis of the Lower-Middle Ordovician succession at Xiangshuidong, southwestern Hubei Province, and the drowning and shelf-ramp transition of a carbonate platform in the Yangtze region. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol 485: 68–83.

梁艳, 唐鹏. 2016a. 华南上扬子区早、中奥陶世几丁虫生物地层. 地层学杂志, 40(2): 136-150. [Liang, Y., Tang, P., 2016a. Early–Middle Ordovician Chitinozoan Biostratigraphy of the Upper Yangtze Region, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 40, 136-150. (in Chinese, with English Abstr.)]

梁艳, 唐鹏. 2016b. 华南上扬子区早奥陶世-晚奥陶世初期几丁虫多样性演变. 中国科学: 地球科学, 46(6): 809-823. [Liang, Y., Tang, P., 2016b. Early Ordovician to early Late Ordovician Chitinozoan biodiversity of the Upper Yangtze Region, South China. Scientia Sinica Terrae 46, 809–823.(in Chinese)]

Wu, R.C., Stouge, S., Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Liang, Y., 2016. Conodont faunal dynamics across the Middle and Upper Ordovician boundary in the Yichang area, western Hubei Province, South China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53(8), 856–864.

梁艳，唐鹏，吴荣昌，栾晓聪，詹仁斌. 2015. 湖北宜昌中—上奥陶统庙坡组几丁虫生物地层. 地层学杂志, 39(2): 17-30. [Liang, Y., Tang, P., Wu, R.C., Luan, X.C., Zhan, R.B., 2015. Chitinozoan Biostratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Ordovician Miaopo Formation in Yichang, Hubei Province. Journal of Stratigraphy 39, 17-30. (in Chinese, with English Abstract)]

Tang, P., Wang, J., Wang, C.Y., Wu, R.C., Yan, K., Liang, Y., Wang, X., 2015. Microfossils across the Llandovery–Wenlock boundary in Ziyang–Langao region, Shaanxi, NW China. Palaeoworld 24, 221–230.

Liang, Y., Zhan, R.B., Jin, J.S., 2014. The oldest known occurrence of the Foliomena fauna in the uppermost Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) of South China. Lethaia 47, 432-436.

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Zhan, R.B., Wu, R.C., 2014. New data of early Late Ordovician chitinozoans from the Miaopo Formation at Jieling, Yichang, Central China. GFF 136, 162-166.

Liang, Y., Tang, P., Zhan, R.B., 2014. Preliminary report on the chitinozoans from the Lower Ordovician Tungtzu and Hunghuayuan formations of Tongzi, northern Guizhou, shouthwest China. In: Zhan, R.B., Huang, B. (Eds.), IGCP 591 Field Workshop 2014, Extended Summary, 75-79. Nanjing University Press, Nanjing.

Zhan, R.B., Harper, D.A.T., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Liu, J.B., Stemmerik, L., Stouge, S., 2014. Middle Ordovician Aporthophyla Brachiopod fauna from the roof of the world, Southern Tibet. Palaeontology 57, 141–170.

Zhan, R.B., Rong, J.Y., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Yuan, W.W., Zhang, Y.D., Wang, Y.,2014. Discovery of a Late Ordovician Foliomena fauna in the Tarim desert, Northwest China. Palaeoworld 23, 125–142.

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.

Zhan, R.B., Luan, X.C., Huang, B., Liang, Y., Wang, G.X., Wang, Y., 2014. Darriwilian Saucrorthis fauna: Implications for the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 1–7.

Tang, P., Wang, J., Wang, C.Y., Liang, Y., Wang, X., 2014. Microfossils from the Llandovery-Wenlock boundary sections in Ziyang-Langao region, southern Shaanxi, central China. In: Zhan, R.B., Huang, B. (Eds.), IGCP 591 Field Workshop 2014, Extended Summary, 155–157. Nanjing University Press, Nanjing.

Zhan, R.B., Jin, J.S., Rong, J.Y., Liang, Y., 2013. The earliest known Strophomenoids (Brachiopoda) from early Middle Ordovician rocks of South China. Palaeontology 56, 1121–1148.

梁艳, 唐鹏. 2012. 华南上扬子区中奥陶统十字铺的岩相与生物相. 地层学杂志, 36(3), 558-568. [Liang, Y., Zhan, R.B., 2012. Litho-and biofacies of the Middle Ordovician Shihtzupu Formation of the Upper Yangtze region, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy 36, 558-568. (in Chinese, with English Abstr.) ]

Zhan, R.B., Jin, J.S., Liang, Y., Meng, L.K., 2012. Evolution and paleogeography of Eospirifer (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) in Late Ordovician and Silurian. Science China: Earth Sciences 55, 1427–1444.

Zhan, R.B., Liu, J.B., Liang, Y., Li, G.P., 2011. α- and β-diversity Change of Late Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna of Changning, Sichuan, Southwest China. Acta Geological Sinica 85(2), 330–339.

Zhan, R.B., Li, R.Y., Percival, I.G., Liang, Y., 2011. Brachiopoda biogeographic change during the Early to Middle Ordovician in South China. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41, 273–283.

Zhan, R.B., Liang, Y., Meng, L.K., 2011. On the macroevolution of Eospirifer Schuchert, 1913 (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda). In: Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C., Rábano, I. and García-Bellido, D. (eds), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14, 633–648.

詹仁斌, 梁艳. 2011. 奥陶纪生物大辐射. 科学, 63(2): 19–21.