Research

Corals and conodonts (Yongyi Zhen)

Early-Mid Palaeozoic corals and stromatoporoids:

• Continue working with B. Webby from Macquarie University on the Silurian and Devonian stromatoporoid fauna from the Broken River area, north Queensland, and Ordovician heliolitid corals and stromatoporoids from central New South Wales.
• Working on the Devonian rugose corals from South China.

Recent publications:

• Zhen, Y.Y., 1996: Succession of the coral associations during a Givetian transgressive-regressive cycle in the Burdekin Basin, Queensland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 14 (1), 59-88.
• Zhen, Y.Y. & Jell, J.S. 1996: Middle Devonian rugose corals from the Fanning River Group, north Queensland, Australia. Palaeontographica A., 242 (1-3), 15-98, pls 7-19.
• Webby, B.D. & Zhen, Y.Y. 1997: Silurian and Devonian clathrodictyids and other stromatoporoids from the Broken River region, north Queensland. Alcheringa, 21, 1-57.
• Webby, B.D., Zhen, Y. Y. & Percival, I.G., 1997: Ordovician coral- and sponge-bearing associations: distribution and significance in volcanic island shelf to slope habitats, eastern Australia. Boletin de la Real sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 92 (1-4), 163-175. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on fossil Cnidaria, 1995, Madrid.
• Zhen, Y.Y. & West, R.R., 1997: Symbionts in a stromatoporoid - chaetetid association from the Middle Devonian of the Burdekin Basin, Queensland. Alcheringa, 21, 271-280.
• Zhen, Y.Y. Wright, A. & Jell, J.S., 1997: Rugosan diversifications and migrations in the Devonian of Australia. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 48, p.117.
• Talent, J., Atchison, J., Bradshaw, M., Dargan, G., Mawson, R., Winchester-Seeto, T., Young, G. & Zhen, Y.Y., 1997: Palaeobiogeography of Australasian Devonian biota. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 48, 71-72.
• Zhen, Y.Y., 1998: Biogeographic and biostratigraphic perspectives for Australian Devonian rugose corals. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 37 (3), 359-379.
• Zhen, Y.Y. Wright, A. & Jell, J.S., 2000: Rugosan diversifications and migrations in the Devonian of Australasia. Historical Biology, 15, 61-76.
• Talent, J., Atchison, J., Bradshaw, M., Dargan, G., Mawson, R., Winchester-Seeto, T., Young, G. & Zhen, Y.Y. 2000: Palaeobiogeography of Australasian Devonian biota. In A. Wright, J. Talent, G. Young & J.R. Laurie (eds), Palaeobiogeography of Australasian faunas and floras. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 23, 167-257.
• Webby, B.D. & Zhen, Y.Y. : Silurian and Devonian stromatoporids and amphiporids from the Broken River region, north Queensland. Alcheringa (in prep.).

Website can be linked to:

• www.ucihs.uci.edu/biochem/steele/default.html

Photos: Early Devonian rugose corals and stromatoporoids from north Queensland.

Ordovician conodonts:

• Currently working on the conodont fauna from the Lower Ordovician of western New South Wales.
• Working on the conodont faunas from the Middle - Upper Ordovician of central New South Wales.
• Working on the Ordovician conodonts from South China in cooperation with the research project lead by Professor Jiayu Rong from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This study will be focused on the Gondwana faunal links between Australia and China during the Ordovician, conodont origination and radiation events, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography.

Recent publications:

• Percival, I., Pickett, J., Webby, B. & Zhen, Y.Y., 1996: Recent advances in Ordovician biostratigraphy of central New South Wales. SUCOGG Geological Evolution of Eastern Australia Symposium, Abstracts and Programme, pp.16-17.
• Percival, I.G., Webby, B.D. & Zhen, Y.Y., 1997: Revised Ordovician biostratigraphy of New South Wales. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 48, 58-59.
• Webby, B.D., Percival, I.G., Vandenberg, F., Pickett, J., Pojeta J.Jr., Schallreuter, R., Winchester-Seeto, T., Edgecombe, G., Cooper, R. & Zhen, Y.Y., 1997: Ordovician biogeography of Australia. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 48, 81-82.
• Zhen, Y.Y., Webby, B.D. & Barnes, C.R., 1999: Upper Ordovician conodonts from the Bowan Park succession, central New South Wales, Australia. Geobios, 32 (1), 73-104.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G. & Webby, B.D.: Early Ordovician (Bendigonian) conodonts from central New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontology Down Under 2000, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts, 61, 139.
• Webby, B.D., Percival, I.G., Edgecombe, G., Vandenberg, F., Cooper, R., Pickett, J., Pojeta J.Jr., Playford, G., Winchester-Seeto, T., Zhen, Y.Y., Nicoll, R.S., Ross, J.R.P., Schallreuter, R., & Young G. 2000: Ordovician biogeography of Australasia. In A. Wright, J. Talent, G. Young & J.R. Laurie (eds), Palaeobiogeography of Australasian faunas and floras. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 23, 63-126.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Nicoll, R.S., Percival, I.G., Hamedi, M.A. & Steward, I., 2001: Ordovician Rhipidognathidae (Conodonta) from Australia and Iran. Journal of Paleontology, 75 (1) 186-207.
• Zhen, Y.Y. 2001: Distribution and biogeographical implications of the conodont genus Taoqupognathus in the Upper Ordovician (Eastonian) of eastern Australia and China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 40 (3), 351-361.
• Zhen, Y. Y. & Percival, I.G.2003: Ordovician conodont biogeography – reconsidered. Lethaia, 36, 357-369.
• Percival, I.G. Zhen, Y.Y. & Webby, B.D., 2003: Early Ordovician conodont distribution from Craton to basin and island terranes in east Gondwana. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Ordovician System, San Juan, Argentina, 2003. In Albanesi G.L., Beresi, M.S. and Peralta, S.H. (eds), Ordovician from the Andes. INSUGEO, Serie Correlación Geológica, 17, 533-537.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G. & Farrell, J. R. 2003. Late Ordovician allochthonous limestones in Late Silurian Barnby Hills Shale, central western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 124, 29-51.(30.5mb PDF)
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G. & Webby, B.D. 2003: Early Ordovician conodonts from western New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 55, 169-220 (12.42mb PDF).
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G. & Webby, B.D.2004a: Early Ordovician (Bendigonian) conodonts from central New South Wales, Australia. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 245, 39-73.
• Zhen, Y.Y. & Percival, I.G., 2004b: Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) conodonts from the Weemalla Formation, south of Orange, New South Wales. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 30, 153-175 (2.9mb PDF).

Websites can be linked to:

• www.leac.uk/geology/mam2/con-nexus/
• www.le.ac.uk/geology/map2/pander/index.html

Photos: Some Early Ordovician conodonts from western NSW.

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