Staff

Yongyi Zhen
Technical Officer

• Address
• Academic qualifications
• Scholarships, fellowships and appointments
• Research interests
• Recent publications
• Links

Address

Paleontology
Australian Museum
6 College St
Sydney 2010
Phone: (+612) 9320 6132
Fax: (+612) 9320 6050
Email Yong yi Zhen

Academic qualifications

• 1/1987-10/1990. Doctor of Philosophy, by research on Devonian rugose coral faunas, geological mapping, biostratigraphy, and facies analysis of the Fanning River Group, Burdekin Basin, north Queensland (thesis title: Devonian rugose coral faunas and biostratigraphy of the Fanning River Group, North Queensland); Department of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland
• 10/1979-2/1982. Master of Science, by course and research on geological mapping, regional geology and Devonian rugose coral faunas and biostratigraphy of western Guangxi, South China; Department of Geology, Beijing University
• 10/1976-9/1979. Undergraduate studies, Department of Geology, Beijing University, graduate certificate (= B.Sc.).

Scholarships, fellowships and appointments

• 2001/2002. Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Fellowship
• 2001-2003. Sydney Grammar School Science Fellowship
• 10-11/2000. Australian Academy of Sciences Grant to visit China for four weeks
• 1988-1990. University of Queensland Postgraduate Research Scholarship
• 1987-1988. Academia Sinica Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship
• 2001-2005 Research Associate, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University.
• 1995-1999. Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University.
• 1990-1994. Higher Education Officer, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney.

Research interests

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.

Ordovician conodonts:

1. Currently working on the conodont fauna from the Lower Ordovician of western New South Wales.
2. Working on the conodont faunas from the Middle - Upper Ordovician of central New South Wales.
3. 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

Early-Mid Palaeozoic corals and stromatoporoids:

• 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 Historica 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.).
• Nitecki, M.H., Webby, B.D., Spjeldnaes, N. & Zhen, Y.Y., 2004: Receptaculitids and algae. In: B.D. Webby, F. Paris, M.L. Droser & I.G. Percival (eds), The Great Ordovician biodiversification event, 336-347, Columbia University Press, New York.
• Zhen, Y.Y., 2007: Revision of Microplasma parallelum Etheridge, 1899 (Cnidaria: Rugosa) from the Middle Devonian Moore Creek Limestone of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 128, 201-208.

Ordovician conodonts:

• 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., 2002: Ordovician conodont biogeography - reconsidered. IPC2002, Geological Soceity of Australia, Abstracts 68, 179-180.
• Farrell, J., Percival, I.G. & Zhen, Y.Y., 2002: Late Ordovician limestones emplaced in Silurian Barnby Hills Shale, central New South Wales. IPC2002, Geological Soceity of Australia, Abstracts 68, 207-208.
• 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.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., 2004a: Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) conodonts from allochthonous limestones in the Oakdale Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Alcheringa, 28, 77-111.
• 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).
• 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. & Webby, B.D., 2004b: Conodont faunas from the Mid to Late Ordovician boundary interval of the Wahringa Limestone Member (Fairbridge Volcanics), central New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 125, 141-164 (30.5mb PDF).
• Zhen, Y. Y., Liu, J.B. & Percival, I.G., 2005: Revision of two prioniodontid species (Conodonta) from the Early Ordovician Honghuayuan Formation of Guizhou, South China. Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 303-320.
• Percival, I.G., Zhen, Y. Y. & Pickett, J.W. 2006. Late Ordovician faunas from the Quandialla-Marsden district, south-central New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 127, 235-255.
• Zhen, Y.Y. & Percival, I.G. 2006: Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician conodont faunas from the Koonenberry Belt of western New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 32, 267-285.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G. & Liu, J.B., 2006a: Triangulodus (Conodonta) from the Early Ordovician Honghuayuan Formation of Guizhou, South China. Alcheringa 30, 191-212.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G. & Liu, J.B., 2006b: Rhipidognathidconodonts from the Early Ordovician Honghuayuan Formation of Guizhou, South China. Palaeoworld, 15, 194-210.
• Zhen, Y.Y., 2007: Conodont biostratigraphy of the Honghuayuan Formation (late Early Ordovician) in Guizhou, South China. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Ordovician System, The Third International Symposium on the Silurian System and IGCP 503 Annual Meeting, June, 2007, Nanjing. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 46 (Supplement), 537-542.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Liu, J.B. & Percival, I.G. 2007: Revision of conodont species Erraticodon hexianensis from the upper part of the Meitan Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Guizhou, South China. Palaeontological Research 11, 143-160.
• Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G., Löfgren, A. & Liu, J.B., 2007. Drepanoistodontidconodonts from the Early Ordovician Honghuayuan Formation of Guizhou, South China. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 24 (2), 125-148.
• Percival, I.G. & Zhen, Y. Y., 2007: Darriwilian conodonts of Eastern Australia: biostratigraphy and biogeographic distribution. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Ordovician System, The Third International Symposium on the Silurian System, and IGCP 503 Annual Meeting, June, 2007, Nanjing. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 46 (Supplement), 387-392.

Ordovician palaeobiogeography, palaeoclimates and ecosystems:

• Zhen, Y. Y. & Percival, I.G.2003: Ordovician conodont biogeography - reconsidered. Lethaia, 36, 357-369.
• Zhen, Y. Y. & Zhou, Z.Y., 2007: Trilobite radiations and extinctions - evidence from the Palaeozoic record of China. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Ordovician System, The Third International Symposium on the Silurian System and IGCP 503 Annual Meeting, June, 2007, Nanjing. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 46 (Supplement), 543-548.
• Zhou, Z.Y., Zhen, Y.Y., Zhou, Z.Q. & Yuan, W.W., 2007. A new approach to the division of Ordovician geographic units of China. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Ordovician System, The Third International Symposium on the Silurian System and IGCP 503 Annual Meeting, June, 2007, Nanjing. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 46 (Supplement), 558-563.

Links

• Palaeontological Excursion in China with Sydney Grammar School 30/6/2002 to 15/7/2002
• Research - corals and conodonts
• http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/biochem/steele/default.html

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