1、研究领域与方向：

研究领域为早期后生动物和寒武系地层，研究方向主要集中在贵州寒武纪系列生物群、寒武系底部黑色岩系地层及其环境背景和寒武系内部全球界线层型剖面和点位（俗称“金钉子”）研究。

2. 学习与工作经历

l 1995/09–1999/07，贵州工业大学，资源工程系，学士

l 1999/09–2002/07，贵州工业大学，资源与环境学院，硕士

l 2002/09–2005/07，中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所，博士

l 2011/01–至今，贵州大学，资源与环境工程学院，教授

l 2014/03–2015/03，美国俄亥俄州立大学，地球科学系，访问学者

3. 学术任职及奖励

l 中国古生物学会理事，中国古无脊椎动物学分会理事，国家古生物化石专家库专家，贵州省地质学会理事

l 2016年荣获贵州省科学技术进步二等奖

l 2018年获批寒武系苗岭统乌溜阶“金钉子”（主要完成人之一）

l 2018年度中国古生物学十大进展

l 2024年荣获贵州省自然科学一等奖

l 2024年获贵州省“新时代的贵州人”称号

4. 科研教学及学术活动

l培养硕士研究生30人，博士研究生8人，博士后1人。研究生获国家奖学金4人，“贵州省优秀毕业生”称号1人，“校长特别嘉奖”荣誉称号1人。

l主持国家自然科学基金5项、国家重点实验室基金及省部级项目8项，作为主要成员参与国家重点基础研究发展计划（973计划）、国家自然科学重点基金、国家自然科学基金和多项省部级项目。已发表论文100余篇、专著1部。 

5. 近年主持承担的主要科研项目

l贵州省科技计划项目“黔东寒武系第四阶底界的研究”（2025/01-2028/12），主持，在研

l国家自然科学基金项目重点基金项目“华南寒武纪特异埋藏化石群埋藏学和定量古生态学研究”（2024/01- 2028/12），主持子项目，在研

l国家自然科学基金项目地区基金项目“黔东寒武系清虚洞组磷酸盐化微型化石群落的研究”（2023/01- 2026/12），主持，在研

l贵州省科技计划项目“贵州省古生物与古环境全省重点实验室”（2024/10-2027/09），主持，在研

l国家自然科学基金项目“贵州剑河寒武系苗岭统甲劳组三叶虫及生物地层学研究”（2020/01- 2023/12），主持、结题

l国家自然科学基金项目“贵州八郎寒武系“清虚洞组”剑河生物群的研究”(2018/01-2021/12)，主持、结题

l国家自然科学基金项目“贵州寒武纪牛蹄塘生物群及寒武系第3阶地层综合研究”( 2014/01-2017/12)，主持、结题

l国家自然科学基金项目“贵州寒武纪海绵动物群及其环境背景研究”（2010/01 -2012/12），主持、结题

l国家重点开放实验室基金项目“贵州寒武纪牛蹄塘生物群的再研究”( 2016/01-2018/12)，主持，结题

l贵州省科技计划项目（课题）“贵州苗岭统乌溜阶后续研究及第四阶金钉子落户贵州研究项目”（2020/12- 2023/12），主持，结题。

l贵州省科技厅基金项目“贵州早、中寒武世海绵动物群及其生态环境”（2011/06-2014/06），主持，结题

l国家重点基础研究发展计划（973计划）“从雪球事件到寒武纪大爆发：距今6亿年前后的生物与环境演变”（2013/01-2017/12），参加，结题

l国家自然科学重点基金“全球寒武系第四阶和第十阶高精度界线地层及其“金钉子”研究”（2014/01-2018/12），参加，结题 

6. 学术成果：代表性学术论文

[1] Xiuchun Luo, XingLian Yang*, , Jorge Esteve, Dezhi Wang, 2025. First report of the hurdiid radiodont Ursulinacaris from the Cambrian Kaili Biota, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113036, 674, 113036. 17 May 20252.

[2] Li, Z., Yang, X.L *, Yuan, Y., Hu, Y., Wang, D.Z., 2025. Carbon isotope fluctuations from the Cambrian Jialao formation in Jianhe County, Guizhou Province, China: Implications for stratigraphic correlation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 661，DOI: 10.1016/j. palaeo.2024.112680.

[3] Wang, D.Z., Chen, S.G., Ma, W.Y., Luo, X.C., Wang, Y.F., Zhao, F.C., Yang, X.L.*, 2025. First report of the Pingding locality of the Balang Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 4), South China: Implications for community complexity and geographic variation. Global and Planetary Change, 245，104641. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104641

[4] Hui Zhang, Qiujun Wang*, Chengwan Zhang, Diedie Luo, Xiuchun Luo, Yifan Wang, Dezhi Wang, XinglianYang*,2024. Chancelloriids from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Balang Lagerstätte of South China and a reappraisal of their diversification in South China, Geobios, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.12.001

[5] DeZhi Wang, Martina Nohejlov´a, ZhiXin Sun, Han Zeng, Bertrand Lefebvre, XingLian Yang, FangChen Zhao*. First report of lepidocystid echinoderm in the Cambrian of North China: Evolutionary and Palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 644 (2024) 112194

[6] Jorge Esteve*, Yuan-Long Zhao and Xing-Lian Yang. Assessment of morphological variation in the early Cambrian trilobite Protoryctocephalus. Historical Biology, 2024, 36( 3), 638–643 https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2180737

[7] Shengguang Chen, Xinglian Yang*, Xiong Liu, Zhengpeng Chen, Zhixin Sun and Fangchen Zhao*. Moulting behaviour in the trilobite Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910) from the Cambrian Miaolingian Series (Wuliuan Stage) of Jianhe, South China. PeerJ, 2023, 11:e16440 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16440

[8] Yifan Wang, Jorge Esteve, Xinglian Yang*, Rongxing Yu and Dezhi Wang. First confident evidence of moulting in eodiscid trilobites from the Cambrian Stage 3 of South China. Geological Magazine, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756823000584

[9] Buqing Wei, Yuan Wang, Xinglian Yang*, Weiyi Wu. The First Report of the Acrotretoid Brachiopod Hadrotreta from the Tsinghsutung Formation Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4), Guizhou, South China. Biology 2023,12, 1083.

[10] Tingzu Peng, Yuning Yang*, Hao Yun, Xinglian Yang, Qianqian Zhang, Min He, Xiangri Chi, Jing Liu & Xi Liu (2023): Flourishing chancelloriids from the Cambrian Kaili Biota of South China, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2212382

[11] Zhengpeng Chen, Yuanlong Zhao, Xinglian Yang*, Jorge Esteve, Xiong Liu, Shengguang Chen. Life cycle evolution in the trilobites Balangia and Duyunaspis from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of South China. PeerJ, 2023, 11:e15068 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15068

[12] Xiong Liu, Yuanlong Zhao*, Xinglian Yang, Zhengpeng Chen, Shengguang Chen,Xue Luo, 2022. Stalked eocrinoids attached onto hyolithids with helens from Cambrian Kaili Formation in Jianhe, Guizhou, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 610 (2023) 111330, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111330

[13] Zhengpeng Chen, Yuanlong Zhao, Xinglian Yang*, Jorge Esteve*, Xiong Liu, Shengguang Chen, Rong Feng, 2022. Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South China. Lethaia 55(4), https://doi.org/10.18261/let.55.4.5

[14] Alejandro Corrales‑García, Jorge Esteve*, Yuanlong Zhao, XinglianYang*, 2020. Synchronized moulting behaviour in trilobites from the Cambrian Series 2 of South China. Scientific Reports, 10:14099 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70883-5

[15] Yuanlong Zhao, Jinliang Yuan, Loren E. Babcock, Qingjun Guo, Jin Peng, Leiming Yin, Xinglian Yang, Shanchi Peng*, Chunjiang Wang, Robert R. Gaines, Jorge Esteve, Tongsu Tai, Ruidong Yang, Yue Wang, Haijing Sun, and Yuning Yang，2019. Global Standard Stratotype-Section and Point (GSSP) for the conterminous base of the Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan Stage (Cambrian) at Balang, Jianhe, Guizhou, China. Episodes, 42(2): 165-184

[16] Yuanlong Zhao, Mingkun Wang, Steven T. LoDuca, Xinglian Yang, Yuning Yang, Yujuan Liu, and Xin Cheng, 2018. Paleoecological Significance of Complex Fossil Associations of the Eldonioid Pararotadiscus guizhouensis with other Faunal Members of the Kaili Biota (Stage 5, Cambrian, South China). Journal of Paleontology, doi: 10.1017/jpa.2018.41

[17] Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Loren E. Babcock & Jin Peng, 2017. A new vauxiid sponge from the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Stage 5), Guizhou, South China. Geological Magazine, 154（6）, 1334-1443

[18] Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Loren E. Babcock & Jin Peng, 2017. Siliceous spicules in a vauxiid sponge (Demospongia) from the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Stage 5), Guizhou, South China. Scientific Reports, 7, 42945; doi: 10.1038/srep42945

[19] Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Weiyi Wu, Zongyuan Sun, Haolin Zheng, Yajie Zhu, 2014. Affinities and Taphonomy of a Cambrian Discoidal from Guizhou, South China. Journal of Paleontology, 88(2), 339–347

[20] Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Weiyi Wu, Haolin Zheng, Yajie Zhu, 2014. Phragmodictya jinshaensis sp. nov., a hexactinellid dictyosponge from the Cambrian of Jinsha, south China. GFF, 309-313

[21] Yang Xinglian, Zhao Yuanlong, Guo Qingjun, Yang Hong, 2012. Geochemistry of the trace elements and rare-earth elements at the boundary between Cambrian Series 2 and Series 3 at Jianshan, South China: Paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic implications. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, 31: 465-475

[22] Yang Xinglian, Zongyuan Song, Yuanlong Zhao, Jin Peng, Haolin Zhen , 2012. The Niutitang Formation, Terreneuvian-Cambrian Series 2, and the Niutitang Biota in Zunyi, Guizhou, South China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29(Sup.1): 139-152

[23]  Li, Chao, Jin, Chengsheng, Planavsky, Noah J., Algeo, Thomas J., Cheng, Meng, Yang, Xinglian，Zhao, Yuanlong，Xie, Shucheng, 2017. Coupled oceanic oxygenation and metazoan diversification during the early-middle Cambrian? Geology, 45(8): 743-746

[24]  Chengsheng Jin, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Noah J. Planavskyd, Hao Cui, Xinglian Yang, Yuanlong Zhao, Xingliang Zhang, Shucheng Xie, 2016. A highly redox-heterogeneous ocean in South China during the early Cambrian (∼529–514 Ma): Implications for biota-environment co-evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 441: 38–51

[25] Qingjun Guo, Harald Strauss, Yuanlong Zhao, Xinglian Yang, Jin Peng, Yuning Yang, Yinan Deng, 2014. Reconstructing marine redox conditions for the transition between Cambrian Series 2 and Cambrian Series 3, Kaili area, Yangtze Platform: Evidence from biogenic sulfur and degree of pyritization.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 398: 144–153

[26] Takafumi Mochizuki, Tatsuo Oji, Yuanlong Zhao, Jin Peng, Xinglian Yang, Sersmaa Gonchigdorj, 2014. Diachronous increase in Early Cambrian Ichnofossil size and benthic faunal activity in different climatic regions. Journal of Paleontology, 88(2): 331-338

[27]  Qingjun Guo, Harald Strauss, Maoyan Zhu, Junming Zhang, Xinglian Yang, Miao Lu,  Fangchen Zhao, 2013. High resolution organic carbon isotope stratigraphy from a slope to basinal setting on the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. Precambrian Research, 225 : 209–217

[28] 杨兴莲*, 殷宗军, 赵方臣, 王德智, 2024. 寒武纪大爆发——来自贵州的化石证据. 古生物学报, 63(2): 125–138

[29] 蒋静雯, 杨兴莲*, 陈争鹏, 周思璇, 2024. 贵州剑河寒武系甲劳组复州虫(Fuchouia)研究. 古生物学报, 63(2): 261–272

[30] 朱万林, 杨兴莲*, 2024. 贵州织金寒武系戈仲伍组钉形类骨片化石研究. 古生物学报, 63(2): 155–170

[31] 袁媛, 王德智, 杨兴莲*, 朱万林. 贵州织金寒武系戈仲伍组赫尔克壳类(Halkieria)的研究. 微体古生物学报 2024年6月; 41(2): 105–117

[32] 周振华, 杨兴莲*, 冯 荣, 魏步青, 2024. 贵州松桃寒武系清虚洞组管状化石Byronia显微结构的研究. 体古生物学报(中英文), 41(4): 305–319.

[33] 吴凯伦，杨兴莲*，陈争鹏，魏步青，冯荣．贵州剑河寒武系甲劳组艾苏贝(Nisusia)研究．古生物学报，2023，62(3)：333-349. https://doi.org/10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2021074

[34] 刘雄,赵元龙*,杨兴莲*,陈争鹏,陈圣光,罗 雪. 贵州剑河寒武系凯里组脊状单臂螺(Haplophrentis carinatus)埋藏特征及与始海百合共生关系探讨.古生物学报, 2023, 62(1): 66–77.

[35] 罗雪，赵元龙*，陈圣光，陈争鹏，杨兴莲*.贵州剑河寒武系苗岭统凯里组太阳女神螺类几何形态学研究. 古生物学报, 2023, 62(1): 78–97.