Biography
I am a visiting PhD student in the Deep-time Ecology Group, from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am focusing on the ecology and evolution of early animals, mainly based on the macrofossils from the Ediacaran Shibantan biota in South China. Currently I am working on the spatial analysis of Ediacaran trace fossils and community biology of the Shibantan biota in the Deep-time Ecology Group.
During 2017-2021, I majored in paleontology while working on the geochemistry in the Peking University, mainly focused on the pyrite sulfur isotope and the reconstruction of redox condition.
Research
I am interested in the late Ediacaran paleoecology and the evolution of early animals. I am working on the spatial point process analysis of Ediacaran trace fossils, to investigate the early animal behaviours and the responds to environmental heterogeneity. I am also collecting fossil data from the Shibantan biota for the studies on the community characteristics.
Publications
Liu, Yarong; Ding, Weiming; Lang, Xianguo; Xing, Chaochao; Wang, Ruimin; Huang, Kangjun; Fu, Bin; Ma, Haoran; Peng, Yongbo; Shen, Bing; Refining the early Cambrian marine redox profile by using pyrite sulfur and iron isotopes[J]. Global and Planetary Change, 2022, 213: 103817.
Wang, Xiaopeng; Liu, Alexander G; Chen, Zhe; Wu, Chengxi; Liu, Yarong; Wan, Bin; Pang, Ke; Zhou, Chuanming; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai; A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal[J]. Nature, 2024, 630(8018): 905-911.
