Dr. Zhifei Zhang

Professor
Northwest University, China

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy from Northwest University, Xi`an, China

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Biography

Dr. Zhifei Zhang holds a position of Professor at Northwest University, China, Programme Director of Palaeotology and Sedimentology at National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, China. He has completed his Ph.D. in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy from Northwest University, Xi`an, China, and Postdoctoral research at the Institute of Paleontology and Sedimentology, Nanjing, China. Dr. Zhifei received honors includes top 100 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of P.R. China, top 10 excellent research papers in Shaanxi Province of China, Scientific Award by the Ministry of Education of China, Outstanding young Teachers in Universities of China, and Award to distinguished young Palaeontologists in China. He also completed many funded research projects. He has supervised 3 students thesis. He has published 63 research articles in journals and 11 conference abstracts contributed as author/co-author.

Area of Interest:

Plant and Soil Sciences
Micropaleontology
Palaeobiology
Diversification
Taxonomy

Selected Publications

  1. Zhang, Z.F., G.X. Li, L.E. Holmer, G.A. Brock and U. Balthasar et al., 2014. An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters. Scient. Rep., Vol. 4. 10.1038/srep04682.
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  2. Wang, H., Z. Zhang and L.E. Holmer, 2014. Oldest glosselline linguliform brachiopod with soft parts from the Lower Cambrian of Yunnan, Southern China. GFF, 136: 539-547.
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  3. Zhang, Z., L.E. Holmer, C.B. Skovsted, G.A. Brock and G.E. Budd et al., 2013. A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications. Scient. Rep., Vol. 3. 10.1038/srep01066.
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  4. Zhang, Z. and L.E. Holmer, 2013. Exceptionally preserved brachiopods from the chengjiang lagerstatte (Yunnan, China): Perspectives on the Cambriane explosion of metazoans. Sci. Found. China, 21: 66-80.
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  5. Wang, H., Z. Zhang, L.E. Holmer, S. Hu, X. Wang and G. Li, 2012. Peduncular attached secondary tiering acrotretoid brachiopods from the Chengjiang fauna: Implications for the ecological expansion of brachiopods during the Cambrian explosion. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 323: 60-67.
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  6. Zhang, Z.F., L.E. Holmer, L.E. Popov and D.G. Shu, 2011. An obolellate brachiopod with soft-part preservation from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna of China. J. Paleontol., 85: 462-465.

  7. Zhang, Z., L.E. Holmer, S.P. Robson, S. Hu, X. Wang and H. Wang, 2011. First record of repaired durophagous shell damages in Early Cambrian lingulate brachiopods with preserved pedicles. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 302: 206-212.
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  8. Zhang, Z., L.E. Holmer, Q. Ou, J. Han and D. Shu, 2011. The exceptionally preserved Early Cambrian stem rhynchonelliform brachiopod Longtancunella and its implications. Lethaia, 44: 490-495.
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  9. Holmer, L.E., C.B. Skovsted, C. Larsson, G.A. Brock and Z. Zhang, 2011. First record of a bivalved larval shell in Early Cambrian tommotiids and its phylogenetic significance. Palaeontology, 54: 235-239.
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  10. Zhang, Z., J. Han, Y. Wang, C.C. Emig and D.G. Shu, 2010. Epibionts on the lingulate brachiopod Diandongia from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. Proc. R. Soc. B, 277: 175-181.
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  11. Wang, Y., Y. Li and Z. Zhang, 2010. Note on small skeletal fossils from the uppermost Shuijingtuo Formation (early Cambrian) in the Yangtze Gorge area. Acta Palaeontol. Sin., 49: 511-523.

  12. Shu, D.G., S.C. Morris, Z.F. Zhang and J. Han, 2010. The earliest history of the deuterostomes: The importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte. Proc. Royal Soc. B: Biol. Sci., 277: 165-174.
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  13. Hu, S., Z. Zhang, L.E. Holmer and C.B. Skovsted, 2010. Soft-part preservation in a linguliform brachiopod from the lower Cambrian Wulongqing Formation (Guanshan Fauna) of Yunnan, South China. Acta Palaeontol. Polonica, 55: 495-505.
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  14. Zhang, Z., Y. Wang and C.C. Emig, 2009. Lingulids: The evolutionary living fossils. Chin. J. Nat., 31: 201-203.
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  15. Zhang, Z., G. Li, C.C. Emig, J. Han, L.E. Holmer and D. Shu, 2009. Architecture and function of the lophophore in the problematic brachiopod Heliomedusa orienta (Early Cambrian, South China). Geobios, 42: 649-661.
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  16. Schoenemann, B., J.N. Liu, D.G. Shu, J. Han and Z.F. Zhang, 2009. A miniscule optimized visual system in the Lower Cambrian. Lethaia, 42: 265-273.
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  17. Ou, Q., D. Shu, J. Han, X. Zhang, Z. Zhang and J. Liu, 2009. A juvenile redlichiid trilobite caught on the move: Evidence from the Cambrian (Series 2) Chengjiang Lagerstatte, Southwestern China. Palaios, 24: 473-477.

  18. Zhang, Z., S.P. Robson, C. Emig and D. Shu, 2008. Early Cambrian radiation of brachiopods: A perspective from South China. Gondwana Res., 14: 241-254.
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  19. Liu, J., D. Shu, J. Han, Z. Zhang and X. Zhang, 2008. The lobopod onychodictyon from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte revisited. Acta Palaeontol. Polonica, 53: 285-292.
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  20. Liu, J., D. Shu, J. Han, Z. Zhang and X. Zhang, 2008. Origin, diversification and relationships of Cambrian lobopods. Gondwana Res., 14: 277-283.
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  21. Han, J., Z.F. Zhang and J.N. Liu, 2008. A preliminary note on the dispersal of the Cambrian Burgess Shale-type faunas. Gondwana Res., 14: 269-276.
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  22. Guo, J.F., Y. Li, J. Han, X.L. Zhang and Z.F. Zhang et al., 2008. Fossil association from the lower Cambrian yanjiahe formation in the Yangtze Gorges Area, Hubei, South China. Acta Geol. Sin., 82: 1124-1132.
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  23. Zhang, Z., J. Han, X. Zhang, J. Liu, J. Guo and D. Shu, 2007. Note on the gut preserved in the Lower Cambrian Lingulellotreta (Lingulata, Brachiopoda) from southern China. Acta Zool., 88: 65-70.
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  24. Zhang, Z., D. Shu, J. Han and J. Liu, 2007. A gregarious lingulid brachiopod Longtancunella chengjiangensis from the Lower Cambrian, South China. Lethaia, 40: 11-18.
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  25. Zhang, Z., D. Shu, C. Emig, X. Zhang, J. Han, J. Liu, Y. Li and J. Guo, 2007. Rhynchonelliformean brachiopods with Soft-tissue preservation from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte of South China. Palaeontology, 50: 1391-1402.
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  26. Liu, J., D. Shu, J. Han, Z. Zhang and X. Zhang, 2007. Morpho‐anatomy of the lobopod Magadictyon cf. haikouensis from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. Acta Zool., 88: 279-288.
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  27. Han, J., Z.F. Zhang and J.N. Liu, 2007. The trace fossils of priapulids from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits and implications for their locomotory styles. J. China Univ. Geosci., 18: 392-393.

  28. Han, J., Z. Zhang, J. Liu and D. Shu, 2007. Evidence of priapulid scavenging from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits, southern China. Palaios, 22: 691-694.
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  29. Han, J., J. Liu, Z. Zhang, X. Zhang and D. Shu, 2007. Trunk ornament on the palaeoscolecid worms Cricocosmia and Tabelliscolex from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits of China. Acta Palaeontol. Polonica, 52: 423-431.

  30. Zhang, Z., D. Shu, J. Han and J. Liu, 2006. New data on the rare Chengjiang (Lower Cambrian, South China) linguloid brachiopod Xianshanella haikouensis. J. Paleontol., 80: 203-211.

  31. Shu, D.G., S.C. Morris, J. Han, Y. Li and X.L. Zhang et al., 2006. Lower Cambrian vendobionts from China and early diploblast evolution. Science, 312: 731-734.
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  32. Liu, J., J. Han, M. Simonettaa, S. Hu, Z. Zhang, Y. Yao and D. Shu, 2006. New observations of the Lobopod-like worm Facivermis from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte. Chin. Sci. Bull., 51: 358-363.
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  33. Liu, J., D. Shu, J. Han, Z. Zhang and X. Zhang, 2006. A large xenusiid lobopod with complex appendages from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte. Acta Palaeontol. Polonica, 51: 215-222.
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  34. Han, J., X. Zhang, Z. Zhang and D. Shu, 2006. A new theca-bearing Early Cambrian worm from the Chengjiang fossil Lagerstatte, China. Alcheringa, 30: 1-10.
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  35. Han, J., D. Shu, Z. Zhang, J. Liu, X. Zhang and Y. Yao, 2006. Preliminary notes on soft-bodied fossil concentrations from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits. Chin. Sci. Bull., 51: 2482-2492.
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  36. Zhang, Z., D. Shu, J. Han and J. Liu, 2005. Morpho‐anatomical differences of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang and Recent lingulids and their implications. Acta Zool., 86: 277-288.
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  37. Zhang, Z.F., D.G. Shu, J. Han and J.N. Liu, 2004. New data on the lophophore anatomy of Early Cambrian linguloids from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte, Southwest China. Brest Lett., Vol. 4. .
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  38. Zhang, Z., J. Han, X. Zhang, J. Liu and D. Shu, 2004. Soft-tissue preservation in the Lower Cambrian linguloid brachiopod from South China. Acta Palaeontol. Pol., 49: 259-266.
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  39. Zhang, Z. and J. Han, 2004. A new linguliform brachiopod from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte. J. Northwest Univ., 34: 449-452.

  40. Zhang, X.L., J. Han, Z.F. Zhang, H.Q. Liu and D.G. Shu, 2004. Redescription of the chengjiang arthropod squamaculaclypeata hou and Bergstram, from the Lower Cambrian, South-west China. Palaeontology, 47: 1-13.

  41. Liu, J., D. Shu, J. Han and Z. Zhang, 2004. A rare lobopod with well-preserved eyes from Chengjiang Lagerstatte and its implications for origin of arthropods. Chin. Sci. Bull., 49: 1063-1071.
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  42. Han, J., D. Shu, Z. Zhang and J. Liu, 2004. The earliest-known ancestors of recent Priapulomorpha from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte. Chin. Sci. Bull., 49: 1860-1868.
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  43. Zhang, Z., J. Han, X.L. Zhang, J.N. Liu and D.G. Shu, 2003. Pediculate brachiopod diandongia pista from the lower Cambrian of South China. Acta Geol. Sin., 77: 288-293.
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  44. Zhang, X.L., J. Han, Z.F. Zhang, H.Q. Liu and D.G. Shu, 2003. Reconsideration of the supposed naraoiid Larva from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. Palaeonotology, 46: 447-465.
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  45. Shu, D.G., S.C. Morris, J. Han, Z.F. Zhang and K. Yasui et al., 2003. Head and backbone of the Early Cambrian vertebrate Haikouichthys. Nature, 421: 526-529.
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  46. Shu, D., S.C. Morris, Z.F. Zhang, J.N. Liu and J. Han et al., 2003. A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution. Science, 299: 1380-1384.
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  47. Han, J., X.L. Zhang, Z.F. Zhang and D.G. Shu, 2003. A new Platy-armored worm from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. Acta Geol. Sin., 77: 1-6.
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  48. Shu, D.G., S.C. Morris, J. Han, Z.F. Zhang and J.N. Liu, 2002. Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China. Nature, 430: 422-428.
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  49. Shu, D.G., S.C. Morris, J. Han, L. Chen and X.L. Zhang et al., 2001. Primitive deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte (Lower Cambrian, China). Nature, 414: 419-424.
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