General
       Guoxiang LI, Research Professor
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
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ail: gxli@nigpas.ac.cn
Telephone: 025-83282179
Address: 39 Easter Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China

Research Areas

Cambrian radiation, Cambrian stratigraphy, small shelly fossils

Education

1988 B.S., Geology Peking University Beijing, China
1991 M.S., Geology Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, China
2000 Ph.D, Palaeontology Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, China
      

Experience

   
Work Experience
2005.3-present Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, China
Research Professor
2004.2-2005.7 Geological Department, Technical University Berlin Berlin, China
Visiting scholar, sponsored by Max-Plack-Gesellschaft
1998..7-2005.2 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, China
Associate Research Professor
1994.7-1998.6 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, China
Assistant Research Professor
1991.7-1994.6 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, China
Research Assistant

Publications

   
Papers
1. Peer-reviewed articles
Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Steiner, M. and Qian Yi, 2004. Skeletal faunas from the Qiongzhusian of southern Shaanxi: biodiversity and lithofacies-biofacies links in the Lower Cambrian carbonate settings. Progress in Natural Science, vol.14, n.1,91-96.
Qian Yi, Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Steiner, M. and Erdtmann, B.D., 2004. Early Cambrian protoconodonts and conodont-like fossils from China: Taxonomic revisions and stratigraphic implications. Progress in Natural Science, vol.14, n.2,
Zhang Junming, Zhu Maoyan, Yang Aihua, Li Guoxiang, Yang Jinghong and Christoph Heubeck, 2004. Stratigraphic implications of Sinian - Early Cambrian volcanoclastic deposits on the Yangtze Platform. Progress in Natural Science, 14, n.1, 71-76.
*Li Guoxiang and Holmer, L.E., 2004. Early Cambrian lingulate brachiopods from the Shaanxi Province, China. GFF, Vol.126(2): 193-211.
*Li Guoxiang and Xiao Shuhai, 2004. Micrina and Tannuolina (Tannuolinidae) from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Yunnan, south China. Journal of Paleontology 78(5), 900-913.
Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Van Iten, H. and Li Chiawei, 2004. Occurrence of the earliest known Sphenothallus Hall in the Lower Cambrian of southern Shaanxi Province, China. Geobios 37, 229-237.
Xiao, S., Bao, H., Wang, H., Kaufman, A. J., Zhou, C., Li, G., Yuan, X. and Ling, H. 2004. The Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh Group in eastern Chinese Tianshan: Evidence for a post-Marinoan glaciation. Precambrian Research,130, 1-26.
Steiner, M., Li Guoxiang, Qian Yi and Zhu Maoyan, 2004. Lower Cambrian small shelly fossils of northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi (China), and their biostratigraphic importance. Geobios 37, 259-275.
Zhu Maoyan, Zhang Junming, Li Guoxiang, Yang Aihua, 2004. Evolution of C isotopes in the Cambrian of China: implications for Cambrian subdivision and trilobite mass extinctions. Geobios 37, 287-301.
Steiner, M., Zhu Maoyan, Li Guoxiang, Qian Yi and Erdtmann, B.D., 2004. New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China. Geology 32(10): 833–836.
Yao Jinxian, Xiao Shuhai, Yin Leiming, Li Guoxiang, Yuan Xunlai, 2005. Basal Cambrian microfossils from the Yurtus and Xishanblaq formations (Tarim, Northwest China): systematic revision and biostratigraphic correlation of Micrhystridium-like acritachs from China. Palaeontology 48(4), 687-708.
Zhao Xin, Li Guoxiang, 2006. Early Cambrian sponge spicules from Zhenba, Shaanxi. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 23(3), 281-294.
*Li Guoxiang, Steiner M, Zhu XJ, Yang Ah, Wang HF, Erdtmann B-D, 2007. Early Cambrian metazoan fossil record of South China: Generic diversity and radiation patterns. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254, 229–249.
Steiner M, Li Guoxiang, Qian Y, Zhu MY, Erdtmann B-D, 2007. Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of theYangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254, 67–99.
Rong Jiayu, Fan Junxuan, Miller AI, Li Guoxiang, 2007. Dynamic patterns of latest Proterozoic -Palaeozoic-early Mesozoic marine biodiversity in South China. Geological Journal 42, 431-454.
Dong Lin, Xiao Shuhai, Shen Bin, Zhou Chuanming, Li Guoxiang, Yao Jinxian, 2009. Basal Cambrian microfossils from the Yangtze Gorges area (south China) and the Aksu area (Tarim Block, northwestern China). Journal of Paleontology 83, 30-44.
Zhifei Zhang, Guoxiang Li, Christian C. Emig, Jian Han, Lars E. Holmer, Degan Shu, 2009. Architecture and function of the lophophore in the problematic brachiopod Heliomedusa orienta (Early Cambrian, South China). Geobios 42, 649–661.
Vendrasco,M.J., Li Guoxiang, Porter,S.M., Fernandez,C.Z., 2009. New data on the enigmatic Ocruranus-Eohalobia group of Early Cambrian small skeletal fossils. Palaeontology 52(6), 1373 – 1396.
Qian Yi, Feng Weimin, Li Guoxiang, and others, 2009. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the early Cambrian univalved mollusk fossils from Xinjiang. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 26, 193-210.
Vendrasco, M.J., Porter, S., Kouchinsky, A., Li Guoxiang, Fernandez, C.Z., 2010. New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia. Palaeontology 53, 97-135.
Van Iten, V., Zhu Maoyan, Li Guoxiang, 2010. Redescription of Hexaconullaira He and Yang, 1986 (Lower Cambrian, South China): implications for the affinities of conulariid-like small shelly fossils. Palaeontology 53, 191-199.
Vendrasco, M.J., Porter, S., Kouchinsky, A., Li Guoxiang, Fernandez, C.Z., 2010. Shell microstructures in early mollusks. The Festivus, vol. XLII (4), 43-53.
Shen Shuzhong, Zhu Maoyan, Wang Xiangdong, LI GuoXiang, Cao Changqun, Zhang Hua, 2010. A comparison of the biological, geological events and environmental backgrounds between the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian and Permian-Triassic transitions. SCIENCE CHINA (Earth Sciences), 53(12), 1873–1884.
Moore, J., Porter, S.M., Steiner, M., Guoxiang Li, 2010. Cambrothyra ampulliformis, an unusual coeloscleritophoran from the lower Cambrian of Shaanxi Province, China. Journal of Paleontology, 84, 1040-1060.
*LI Guoxiang, ZHAO Xin, Alexander GUBANOV, ZHU Maoyan and Na Lin, 2011. Early Cambrian Mollusc Watsonella crosbyi: A Potential GSSP Index Fossil for the Base of the Cambrian Stage 2. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (English edition), 85(2):309~319.
Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Chen Zhe, 2011. Animal skeletons, advent. In: Reitner J. and Thiel V. (eds), Encyclopedia of Geobiology. P. 58-64. Heidelberg: Springer.
Wang Haizhou, Zhang Zhifei, Holmer L.E., Hu Shixue, Wang Xiangren, Li Guoxiang, 2012. Peduncular attached secondary tiering acrotretoid brachiopods from the Chengjiang fauna: Implications for the ecological expansion of brachiopods during the Cambrian explosion. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 323-325: 60-67. Doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.027
LI, G.X., STEINER, M., ZHU, M.Y. & ZHAO, X. 2012. Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobite Hupeidiscus orientalis from South China: ontogeny and implications for affinities of Mongolitubulus-like sclerites. Bulletin of Geosciences 87(1), 159–169.
Guo, J.F., Li, Y., Li, G.X., 2014. Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China. Gondwana Research 25, 999-1007.
Zhu, M., Lu, M., Zhang, J., Zhao, F., Li, G., Zhao, X., Zhao, M. 2013. Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and sedimentary facies evolution of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in western Hubei, South China. Precambrian Research, 225:7-28.
Lu, M., Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Shields, G.A., Li, G., Zhao, F., Zhao, X., Zhao, M., 2013. The DOUNCE event at the top of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China: Wide stratigraphic occurrence and non-diagenetic origin. Precambrian Research,225:86-109.
Han Jian, Kubota S., Li Guoxiang, Yao Xiaoyong, Yang Xiaoguang, Shu Degan, and others, 2013. Early Cambrian pentamerous cubozoan embryos from South China. PLOS ONE, 8(8), e70741. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070741.
Zhang Zhifei, Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, Brock, G. A., Budd, G.E., Fu Dongjing, Zhang Xinglian, Shu Degan, Hanjian, Liu Jianni, Wang Haizhou, Butler, A., Li Guoxiang, 2013. A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications. Scientific Reports, 3: 1066. Doi: 10.1038/srep01066.
Steiner, M., Qian Yi, Li Guoxiang, Hagadorn J.W., Zhu Maoyan, 2014. The development cycles of early Cambrian Olivooidae fam. nov. (?Cycloneuralia) from the Yangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 398, 97-124. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.08.016.
Yang Ben, Steiner M., Li Guoxiang, Keupp H., 2014. Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 398, 28-58.
Moor, J., Li Guoxiang, Porter, S., 2014. Chancelloriid sclerites from the Lower Cambrian (Meishucunian) of eastern Yunnan, China, and the early history of the group. Palaeontology 57, 833-878.
Moor, J., Porter, S., Li Guoxiang, 2014. Two unusual small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian of southeastern Shaanxi Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 88, 348-358.
Li, G.X., Zhang Zhifei, Hua Hong, Yang Huining, 2014. Occurrence of the enigmatic bivalve fossil Apistoconcha in the lower Cambrian of southeast Shaanxi, North China Platform. Journal of Paleontology 88, 359-366.
Zhang, Z.F., Li, G.X., Holmer, L.E., Brock, G.A., Balthasar, U., Skovsted, C.B. and others, 2014. An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters. Scientific Reports 4: 4682/DOI: 10.1038/srep04682.
ZENG Han, ZHAO FangChen, YIN ZongJun, Li GuoXiang & ZHU MaoYan,2014. A Chengjiang-type fossil assemblage from the Hongjingshao Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) at Chenggong, Kunming, Yunnan. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59, 3169-3175.
Yao Chunyan, Ding Haifeng, Ma Dongsheng and Li Guoxiang, 2014. Carbon isotope features of the Sugetbrak section in the Aksu-Wushi area, northwestern China: implications for the Precambrian-Cambran stratigraphic correlations. Acta Geologica Sinica, 88, 1535-1546.

2. Peer-reviewed conference contributions (abstracts)
Li Guoxiang, Steiner M, Zhu Maoyan, Qian Yi, Erdtmann B-D, 2005. Diversity and radiation patterns of the Early Cambrian metazoans in South China. In: Abstracts and Short Papers of the Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System”, 18-24 August, Nanjing 2005. Acta Micropalaontologica Sinica 22 (sup.), p. 94-95.
Steiner M, Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, 2005. Palaeoembryology – insights from the Lower Cambrian of China. In: Abstracts and Short Papers of the Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System”, 18-24 August, Nanjing 2005. Acta Micropalaontologica Sinica 22 (sup.), p.178-179.
Steiner M, Hagadorn J W, Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, 2006. Palaeoembryological revision of the life cycles of Early Cambrian Olivooides and related forms – an approach by mmicrofocus X-ray tomography. In: Ancient Life and Modern Approaches, Abstracts of the Second International Palaeontological Congress, p.14-15. University of Sciences and Technology of China Press.
Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Steiner M, Erdtmann B D, 2006. Generic diversity and radiation patterns of Early Cambrian metazoan fossils in South China. In: Ancient Life and Modern Approaches, Abstracts of the Second International Palaeontological Congress, p.306. University of Sciences and Technology of China Press.
Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Zhang Junming, Steiner, M., 2006. Bio- and carbon isotope stratigraphy of the lower Cambrian in eastern Yunnna and the subdivision of the 1st Series of the Cambrian. In: Jago, J. (ed.), Abstracts No.84, Geological Society of Australia, XI International Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, South Australia, August 14-24, 2006. p.20.
Li Guoxiang, Michael Steiner, Zhu Maoyan, 2007. Small shelly fossil biostratigraphy in South China: implications for subdivision and correlation of Cambrian Series 1. In: Landing, E. (ed.), Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurenita –S.W. Ford Memorial Volume, 12th International Conference of the Cambrian Chronostratigraphy Working Group. New York State Museum Bulletin 510, p.87-88.
Steiner M., Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, 2008. Early Cambrian small shelly fossils assemblages of South China and a biostratigraphic correlation with Siberia. In: The Conference Proceedings of the 13th International Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, the Siberian Platfor, western Yakutia. 65-67.
Li Guoxiang, 2009. Early Cambrian stem-group brachiopods from South China. In: M. Smith, L. O’Brien & J.B. Caron (eds.), Abstract Volume of International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Banff, Canada (Aug.3-8th, 2009). P.80.
Zhang Zhifei, Li Guoxiang, Emig, C., Han Jian, Holmer, L., and Shu Degan, 2009. New data on the enigmatic Early Cambrian brachiopod Heliomedusa orienta from South China. In: M. Smith, L. O’Brien & J.B. Caron (eds.), Abstract Volume of International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion, Banff, Canada (Aug.3-8th, 2009). P.97-98.
Li Guoxiang, Michael Steiner, Zhu Maoyan, 2010. Cambrian Mongolitubulus-like sclerites: spines of different arthropod fossils. In: Programme and abstracts of the 3rd International Palaeontological Congress, London (June 28-July 3). P.244.
Steiner, M., Li Guoxiang, 2010. Cambrian small shelly fossils and the taphonomic phosphatization window. In: Programme and abstracts of the 3rd International Palaeontological Congress, London (June 28-July 3). P.363.
Li Guoxiang, Michael Steiner, Zhu Maoyan, 2010. Radiation patterns of early Cambrian metazoan fossils in south China. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (GSA, Denver), Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 359.
Steiner M., Li Guoxiang, Hu Shixue, Keupp H., 2010. Soft-tissue preservation in small shelly faunas. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (GSA, Denver), Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 359.
Li Guoxiang, Gubanov A., Steiner M., Zhu Maoyan, 2011. The FAD of Watsonellea crosbyi—a potential fossil stantard for defining the Cambrian Stage 2 GSSP. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 67, 289-290.
Moore J., Li Guoxiang, Porter S., 2011. Chancelloriid sclerites from the lower Cambrian (Meishucunian) of Eastern Yunnan, China. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No.5, p.545.
Li Guoxiang, 2012. HOW TO DEFINE THE BASE OF THE CAMBRIAN STAGE 2? Journal of Guizhou University, 29(suppl.), 173.
Li Guoxiang, Zhang Zhifei, 2012. DIVERSE STEM-GROUP BRACHIOPOD FOSSILS FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN OF SOUTH CHINA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 44, No. 7, p. 326.

3. Review articles, book chapters, books
Li Guoxiang, Steiner, M., and Hua Hong, 2005. Stratigraphy and fossil record of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition on the northern Margin of the South China Plate (Ningqiang, Shaanxi). In: Peng Shanchi, Babcock L E and Zhu Maoyan (eds.) Cambrian System of China and Korea—Guide to Field Excursions of IV International Symposium on the Cambrian System. 179-193. Hefei: University of Science and Technology of China Press.
Luo Kunli, Li Guoxiang, and Peng Shanci, 2005. Cambrian stratigraphy on the southwest margin of the North China Plate (Hancheng, Shaanxi). In: Peng Shanchi, Babcock L E and Zhu Maoyan (eds.) Cambrian System of China and Korea—Guide to Field Excursions of IV International Symposium on the Cambrian System. 194-204. Hefei: University of Science and Technology of China Press.
Zhu Maoyan, Li Guoxiang, Hu Shixue, and Zhao Fangchen, 2005. Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary stratigraphy at Meishucun, Jinning County, and fossil quarries of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota near Haikou, Kunming city, Yunnan, China. In: Peng Shanchi, Babcock L E and Zhu Maoyan (eds.) Cambrian System of China and Korea—Guide to Field Excursions of IV International Symposium on the Cambrian System. 13-29. Hefei: University of Science and Technology of China Press.
Zhu Maoyan, Zhang Junming, and Li Guoxiang, 2005. The Chengjiang Biota: an Early Cambrian nonmineralized fossil biota in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. In: Peng Shanchi, Babcock L E and Zhu Maoyan (eds.) Cambrian System of China and Korea—Guide to Field Excursions of IV International Symposium on the Cambrian System. 30-36. Hefei: University of Science and Technology of China Press.
Zhu Maoyan, Li Guoxiang, Zhang Junming, and Yang Aihua, 2005. Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary section at Zhujiaqing, near Dahai, Huize County, Yunnan, China: potential stratotype section for subdivision of the First series of the Cambrian. In: Peng Shanchi, Babcock L E and Zhu Maoyan (eds.) Cambrian System of China and Korea—Guide to Field Excursions of IV International Symposium on the Cambrian System. 37-44. Hefei: University of Science and Technology of China Press.
Li Guoxiang, Zhu Maoyan, Chen Zhe, 2011. Animal skeletons, advent. In: Reitner J. and Thiel V. (eds), Encyclopedia of Geobiology. P. 58-64. Heidelberg: Springer.

Students

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赵鑫  硕士研究生  070903-古生物学与地层学(含:古人类学)  

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赵鑫  博士研究生  070903-古生物学与地层学(含:古人类学  

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