Interactions Between Organisms and Environment During Geological History

Primary Research Areas:

l  Mass Extinctions and Their Causes: Utilizing big data, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence to investigate the evolution of deep-time biodiversity and quantitative paleogeography.

l  Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate Studies: Employing biogeochemical analysis techniques to explore ancient environments and climates, and conducting digital simulations.

l  Permian Stratigraphy and Systematic Paleobiology: Focusing on Permian stratigraphy, and conducting systematic paleobiological and evolutionary studies of brachiopods and conodonts based on collected fossils.

l  General Education Course: Evolution of Life and Environment

The evolution of life is an eternal subject of human concern. The approximately 3.8 billion years of life evolution have been a grand and ever-changing process. Stratigraphic paleontologists strive to reconstruct this long history of life by analyzing fossils and environmental information preserved in rock layers. Questions such as how organisms and their groups originated, how biodiversity increased, how dinosaurs experienced mass extinction, what major global climate change events occurred, and the implications of life evolution for humanity are explored.

l  Pathways to Scientific Discovery: Exploration and Innovative Practice in Earth Sciences

This course brings together a high-level teaching team from the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Nanjing University, including two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who have achieved significant accomplishments in research. The course focuses on the exploration and breakthroughs in modern earth science issues and technological application fields, selecting major topics from various aspects such as paleontology, stratigraphy, mineralogy, petrology, and geophysics, to tell the stories of science and its applications. The course also includes laboratory visits, online and offline scientific discussions, aiming to broaden students' scientific horizons and cultivate scientific thinking and research methods.

Monographs or Collections

Zhang, F.F., Chen, J.T., Shen, S.Z. (eds.). 2021. Paleozoic Earth-life systems: Understanding how life on Earth and its planetary environment have co-evolved through the Paleozoic. Earth-Science Reviews.

Zhang, F.F., Shen, S.Z., Cui, Y. 2021. (eds.). Earth’s climate-environment-life systems in deep time. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 546.

Gastaldo, R. A., Isozaki, Y., Kustatscher, E., Reisz, R. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. Permian Extinctions. Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 1-301.

沈树忠、徐海鹏、袁东勋、王玥、王军、张以春、王小娟、牟林、吴琼. 2020. 中国二叠纪地层及标志化石图集。浙江大学出版社，382 p.

Shen, S.Z. & Rong, J.Y. 2019. Integrative Stratigraphy and Timescale of China. Science China Earth Sciences 62(1):1-348. (Special Issue)

Lucas, S.G. & Shen, S.Z. (eds.). 2018. The Permian Timescale. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 450: 1-458.

Rong, J.Y., Jin, Y.G., Shen, S.Z. & Zhan, R.B. (eds.). 2017. Phanerozoic Brachiopod Genera of China, Volumes 1-2, 1-1077.

Shen, S.Z., Zhan, R.B. & Huang, B. 2016. The Brachiopod World. Palaeoworld 25(4):465-684. (Special Issue)

Shen, S.Z., Jin, J.S. & Shi, G.R. 2016. Ecosystem evolution in deep time: Evidence from the rich Paleozoic fossil records of China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448: 1-382. (Special Issue)

Xu, Y.G., Wang, C.Y. & Shen, S.Z. 2014. Permian Large Igneous Provinces: Characteristics, Mineralization and Paleoenvironment Effects. Lithos 204:1-270. (Special Issue)

Shen, S.Z. & Shi, G.R. 2013. Late Paleozoic Deep Gondwana and Its Peripheries: Stratigraphy, Biological Events, Palaeoclimate and Palaeogeography. Gondwana Research 24(1): 1-242. (Special Issue).

Shen, S.Z., Henderson, C.M. & Somerville, I.D. 2010. Lopingian (Late Permian) stratigraphy of the world, major events and environmental change. Geological Journal, 45(2-3):119-349. (Special Issue)

Shen, S.Z. & Zhou, Z.H. (eds). 2010. Evolution of marine and terrestrial geobiodiversity in the history of the earth. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 53(12):1747-1940. (Special Issue).

Wang, X.D., Shen, S.Z. & Somerville I.D., 2009. Carboniferous and Permian biota, integrative stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeogeography and palaeoclimatology. Palaeoworld 18(2-3):77-212. (Special Issue)

Shen, S.Z. & Shi, G.R. 2007. Lopingian (Late Permian) Brachiopoda from South China, Part 1: Orthotetida, Orthida and Rhynchonellida. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum, no. 6:1-102.

Shen, S.Z., Wang, X.D. & Erwin, D.H. 2007. Contributions to brachiopod paleontology, Permian and Carboniferous stratigraphy and end-Permian mass extinctions-in memory of Prof. Jin Yugan. Palaeoworld 16 (1-3):1-263. (Special Issue)

Shi, G.R., Campi, M. A. & Shen, S.Z. (eds.), 2006. The Permian of East and NE Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 26:173-436. (Special Issue)

Shen, S.Z., Shi, G.R. & Archbold, N.W. 2003. Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods from the Qubuerga Formation at the Qubu section in the Mt. Qomolangma region, southern Tibet (Xizang), China. Palaeontographica Abt. A,Band 268, 49-101, 15pls.

Articles

沈树忠, 张飞飞, 王文倩, 王向东, 樊隽轩, 陈吉涛, 王博, 曹剑, 杨石岭, 张华, 李高军, 邓涛, 李献华,陈骏. 2023. 深时重大生物和气候事件与全球变化：进展与挑战. 科学通报.

Fang, Q., Wu, H.C., Shen, S.Z., Fan, J.X., Hinnov, L.A., Yuan, D.X., Ren, C.Z., Zhou, M.Y., Zhang, S.H., Yang, T.S., Zhang, Y.F., Chen, J., Wu, Q., Liu, M.K. 2023. Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition. Earth-Science Reviews, 240:104402.

Yao, L., Kershaw, S., Shen, S.Z., Wang, X.D. 2023. A new reef classification model with insights into Phanerozoic evolution of reef ecosystems. Sedimentology, v. n/a, no. n/a.

Li, R.C., Wu, N.P., Shen, S.Z., Wang, X.L., Chen, H.Y., Algeo, T.J., Zhang, H., Zhang, F.F. 2023. A rapid onset of ocean acidification associated with the end-Permian mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change, 225:104130.

Yang, W.L., Chen, J.T.*, Gao, B., Zhong, Y.T., Huang, X., Wang, Y., Qi, Y.P., Shen, K.S., Mii, H.S., Wang, X.D., Shen, S.Z. 2023. Sedimentary facies and carbon isotopes of the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian in South China: Implications for icehouse to greenhouse transition. Global and Planetary Change, 221:104051.

Wei, G.Y., Zhang, F.F.*, Yin, Y.S., Lin, Y.B., Pogge von Strandmann, P.A.E., Cao, M.C., Li, N., Xiong, G.L., Chen, X.R., Fan, C.W., Xu, C.G., Tan, F., Zhang, X.Y., Yang, H.Q., Ling, H.F., Shen, S.Z. 2023. A 13 million-year record of Li isotope compositions in island carbonates: constraints on bulk inorganic carbonate as a global seawater Li isotope archive. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 344:59-72.

Hou, Z.S., Shen, S.Z., Henderson, C.M., Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C., Fan, J.X. 2023. Cisuralian (Early Permian) paleogeographic evolution of South China Block and sea-level changes: Implications for the global Artinskian Warming Event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 613:111395.

Wang, W.Q., Zhang, F.F., Zhang, S., Cui, Y., Zheng, Q.F., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X., Zhang, H., Xu, Y.G. & Shen, S.Z. 2023. Ecosystem responses of two Permian biocrises modulated by CO₂ emission rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602:117940.

Tang, Y., Ye, X. Y., Wang, X. T., Huang, X., Hou, Z. S., Hu, K., Yang, S. R., Li, Y., Zhang, F. F., Shen, S.Z. & Wang, X.D. 2023. A synthesis of Carboniferous stratigraphy in Xinjiang, Northwest China with emphasis on regional and global correlations. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 241: 105476.

Shen, S.Z., Fan, J.X., Wang, X.D., Zhang, F.F., Shi, Y.K. & Zhang, S.H. 2022. How to Build a High-Resolution Digital Geological Timeline? Journal of Earth Science, 33(6):1629-1632.

Garbelli, C.*, Angiolini, L., Posenato, R., Harper, E.M., Lamare, M.D., Shi, G.R. & Shen, S.Z.* 2022. Isotopic time-series (δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O) obtained from the columnar layer of Permian brachiopod shells are a reliable archive of seasonal temperature variations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 607:111264.

Shen, S.Z., Yuan, D.X., Henderson, C.M., Lambert, L.L., Zhang, Y.C., Erwin, D.H., Ramezani, J., Wang, X.D., Zhang, H., Wu, Q., Wang, W.Q., Hearst, J.M., Chen, J., Wang, Y., Qie, W.K., Qi, Y.P. & Wardlaw, B.R. 2022. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Capitanian Stage (Guadalupian, Middle Permian). Episodes, 45(3):309-331.

Sun, F.N., Hu, W.X.*, Cao, J., Wang, X.L., Zhang, Z.R., Ramezani, J. & Shen, S.Z. 2022. Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming. Nature Communications, 13(1):4856.

Zhang, S.H., Shen, S.Z., & Erwin, D.H. 2022. Two cosmopolitanism events driven by different extreme paleoclimate regimes. Global and Planetary Change 216:103899.

Zhang, S.H., Shen, S.Z., Erwin, D.H. 2022. Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates. Geology, 50(10):1166-1171.

Wang, W.Q., Zhang, F.F.*, Shen, S.Z., Bizzarro, M., Garbelli, C., Zheng, Q.F., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X., Shi, Y.K., Cao, M.C., and Dahl, T.W. 2022. Constraining marine anoxia under the extremely oxygenated Permian atmosphere using uranium isotopes in calcitic brachiopods and marine carbonates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 594:117714.

Cai, Y.F., Zhang, H.*, Feng, Z., Gou, X.D., Byambajav, U., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X., Qie, W.K., Xu, H.P., Cao, C.Q., Yarinphil, A. & Shen, S.Z. 2022. A new conifer stem, Ductoagathoxylon tsaaganensis, from the Upper Permian of the South Gobi Basin, Mongolia and its palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 104719.

Khan, M.M.S.S., Umar, M., Pan, B., Sun, X.J., Ahmed, S., Luo, C., Zhao, F.C., Yin, Z.J., Qasim, M., Jadoon, I.A.K., Shen, S.Z., Ding, L., & Zhu, M.Y.* 2022. A newly discovered Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate couplet from the Western Himalaya: The expansion of the Marinoan snowball Earth glaciation to the northwestern margin of the Indian Plate in North Pakistan. Precambrian Research, 378:106759.

Xu, H.P., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X. & Shen, S.Z.* 2022, Quantitative palaeobiogeography of the Kungurian–Roadian brachiopod faunas in the Tethys: Implications of allometric drifting of Cimmerian blocks and opening of the Meso-Tethys Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601:111078.

申博恒, 沈树忠*, 吴琼, 张水昌, 张斌, 王向东, 侯章帅, 袁东勋, 张以春, 刘锋, 刘俊, 张华, 史宇坤, 王军, 冯卓. 2022. 华北板块石炭纪-二叠纪地层时间框架: 中国科学: 地球科学, 52:1181-1212.

Chen, J.T., Montañez, I.P., Zhang, S., Isson, T.T., Macarewich, S.I., Planavsky, N.J., Zhang, F. F., Rauzi, S., Daviau, K., Yao, L., Qi, Y.P., Wang, Y., Fan, J.X., Poulsen, C.J., Anbar, A.D., Shen, S.Z. & Wang, X.D. 2022. Marine anoxia linked to abrupt global warming during Earth's penultimate icehouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(19):e2115231119.

Zhang, F.F., Frýda, J., Fakhraee, M., Lin, Y.B., Wei, G.Y., Cao, M.C., Li, N., Frýdová, B., Wei, H.Z. & Shen, S.Z. 2022. Marine anoxia as a trigger for the largest Phanerozoic positive carbon isotope excursion Evidence from carbonate barium isotope records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 584:117421.

Zhang, F.F., Stockey, R.G., Xiao, S.H., Shen, S.Z., Dahl, T.W., Wei, G.Y., Cao, M.C., Li, Z.H., Kang, J.Y., Cui, Y., Anbar, A.D. & Planavsky, N.J. 2022. Uranium isotope evidence for extensive shallow water anoxia in the early Tonian oceans. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 583: 117437.

Zheng, Q.F., Zhang, H., Yuan, D.X., Wang, Y., Wang, W.Q., Cao, C.Q. & Shen, S.Z. 2022. High-resolution sedimentology, ichnology, and benthic marine redox conditions from Late Permian to the earliest Triassic at Shangsi, South China: Local, regional, and global signals and driving mechanisms. Earth-Science Reviews 225: 103898.

Fang, Q., Wu, H.C., Shen, S.Z., Fan, J.X., Hinnov, L.A., Yuan, D.X., Zhang, S.H., Yang, T.S., Chen, J. & Wu, Q. 2022. Astronomically paced climate evolution during the Late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition. Global and Planetary Change, 213:103822.

Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C., Qiao, F., Xu, H.P., Ju, Q. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. A new late Kungurian (Cisuralian, Permian) conodont and fusuline fauna from the South Qiangtang Block in Tibet and their implications for correlation and paleobiogeography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 589:110822.

Angiolini, L., Cisterna, G. A., Mottequin, B., Shen, S.Z. & Muttoni, G. 2022. Global Carboniferous brachiopod biostratigraphy. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 512(1):497-550.

唐勇, 侯章帅, 王霞田, 王韬, 吴琼, 申博恒, 王文倩, 张华, 曹剑, 张水昌, 张斌, 王向东 & 沈树忠*. 2022. 准噶尔盆地石炭—二叠纪地层对比框架新进展. 地质论评 68(2):385-407。

Zhang, H., Zhang, F.F., Chen, J.B., Erwin, D.H., Syverson, D.D., Ni, P., Rampino, M., Chi, Z., Cai, Y.F., Xiang, L., Li, W.Q., Liu, S.A., Wang, R.C., Wang, X.D., Feng, Z., Li, H.M., Zhang, T., Cai, H.M., Wang Z., Cui, Y., Zhu, X.K., Hou, Z.Q., Wu, F.Y., Xu, Y.G., Planavsky, N., Shen, S.Z.* 2021. Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction. Science Advances 7, eabh1390, 13p.

Wu, Q., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H.*, Wang, J., Zeng, F.G., Zhang, Y.C., Liu, F., Liu, C., Yang, W., Henderson, C.M., Shen, S.Z.* 2021. High-precision U-Pb age constraints on the Permian floral turnovers, paleoclimate change and tectonics of North China. Geology 49(6):677-681.

Zhang, M., Qin, H.F. He, K., Hou, Y.F., Zheng, Q.F., Deng, C.L., He, Y. & Shen, S.Z.*, Zhu, R.X. & Pan, Y.X.* 2021. Magnetostratigraphy across the end-Permian mass extinction event from the Meishan sections, southeastern China. Geology 49:1289-1294.

Hu, Z.Y., Li, W.Q.*, Zhang, H.*, Krainer Karl, Zheng, Q.F., Xia, Z.G., Hu, W.X. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. Mg isotope evidence for restriction events within the Paleotethys ocean around the Permian-Triassic transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 556: 116704.

Wang, W.Q.*, Katchinoff, J.A.R., Garbelli, C., Immenhauser, A., Zheng, Q.F., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X., Shi, Y.K., Wang, J.Y., Planavsky, N. & Shen, S.Z.* 2021. Revisiting the Permian seawater ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr record: New perspectives from brachiopod proxy data and stochastic oceanic box models: Earth-Science Reviews 218: 103679.

Wang, C.S., Hazen, R.M., Cheng, Q.M., Stephenson, M.H., Zhou, C.H., Fox, P., Shen, S.Z., Oberhänsli, R., Hou, Z.Q., Ma, X.G., Feng, Z.Q., Fan, J.X., Ma, C., Hu, X.M., Luo, B. & Wang, J.L. 2021. The Deep-time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences. National Science Review 8(9): nwab027.

Fang, Q., Wu, H.C., Shen, S.Z., Zhang, S.H., Yang, T.S., Wang, X.D. & Chen, J. 2021. Trends and Rhythms in Climate Change During the Early Permian Icehouse: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36(12):e2021PA004340.

Deng, Y.Y., Fan, J.X., Zhang, S.H., Fang, X., Chen, Z.Y., Shi, Y.K., Wang, H.W., Wang, X.B., Yang, J., Hou, X.D., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.D., Chen, Q., Yang, A.H., Fan, R., Dong, S.C., Xu, H.Q., & Shen, S.Z. 2021. Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: Perspectives from South China. Earth-Science Reviews 220: 103743.

Shi, Y.K., Wang, X.D., Fan, J.X., Huang, H., Xu, H.P., Zhao, Y.Y. & Shen, S.Z. 2021, Carboniferous-earliest Permian marine biodiversification event (CPBE) during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. Earth-Science Reviews 220:103699.

Cai, Y.F., Zhang, H., Cao, C.Q., Zheng, Q.F., Jin, C.F. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. Wildfires and deforestation during the Permian–Triassic transition in the southern Junggar Basin, Northwest China. Earth-Science Reviews 218: 103670.

Wang, X.D., Hu, K.Y., Shi, Y.K., Chen, J.T., Yang, S.R., Ye, X.Y., Li, X.M., Song, Y.F., Chen, B., Chang, X.L., Yao, L., Zhang, Y.C., Fan, J.X. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. The missing upper Carboniferous in the Cimmerian continent: A critical review. Earth-Science Reviews 217: 103627.

Xu, H.P., Aung, K.P., Zhang, Y.C., Shi, G.R., Cai, F.L., Zaw, T., Ding, L., Sein, K. & *Shen, S.Z. 2021, A late Cisuralian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Taungnyo Group in the Zwekabin Range, eastern Myanmar and its biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and tectonic implications. Journal of Paleontology 95: 1158-1188.

Qiao, F., Zhang, Y.C., Wang, Y., Yuan, D.X., Ju, Q., Xu, H.P., Zhang, H., Zheng, Q.F., Cai, Y.F., Hou, Z.S. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. An updated age of Permian strata in the Raggyorcaka and Qamdo areas, Tibet and their paleogeographic implications: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 582:110660.

Zhang, S.H.*, Fan, J.X., Morgan, C.A., Henderson, C.M. & Shen, S.Z.* 2021. Quantifying the middle–late Cambrian trilobite diversity pattern in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 570:110361.

Dudás, F. Ö., Zhang, H., Shen, S.Z. & Bowring, S.A. 2021. Major and Trace Element Geochemistry of the Permian-Triassic Boundary Section at Meishan, South China. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:637102.

Gastaldo, R.A., Isozaki, Y., Kustatscher, E., Reisz, R. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. Editorial: Permian Extinctions: Frontiers in Earth Science 9:772688.

Cai, Y.F., Zhang, H.*, Feng, Z., Shen, S.Z. 2021. Intensive wildfire associated with volcanism promoted the vegetation changeover in southwest China during the Permian−Triassic transition. Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 615841.

Schmitz, M.D., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Shen, S.Z. & Wang, J. 2021. A volcanic tuff near the Carboniferous–Permian boundary, Taiyuan Formation, North China: Radioisotopic dating and global correlation. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 294:104244.

周成虎，王华，王成善，侯增谦，郑志明，沈树忠，成秋明，冯志强，王新兵，闾海荣，胡修棉，侯明才，诸云强，樊隽轩. 大数据时代的地学知识图谱研究展望。中国科学.地球科学，51(7): 1070-1079

Yuan, D.X., Shen, S.Z., Henderson, C.M., Lambert, L., Hearst, J., Zhang, Y.C., Chen, J., Qie, W.K., Zhang, H., Wang, X.D., Qi, Y.P., Wu, Q. 2021. Reinvestigation of the Wordian-base GSSP section, West Texas, USA. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 54:301-315.

Rampino, M.R. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. The end-Guadalupian (259.8 Ma) biodiversity crisis: the sixth major mass extinction? Historical Biology 33(5):716-722.

Qiao, L., Chen, B. & Shen, S.Z. 2021. Lower Devonian (Pragian) brachiopods from the Dashatian section, Guangxi, South China. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 127(1):1-16.

Viaretti, M., Crippa, G., Posenato, R., Shen, S.Z. & Angiolini, L. 2021. Lopingian brachiopods from the Abadeh section (Central Iran) and their biostratigraphic implications. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 60(1):213-254.

Chen, J. & Shen, S.Z.* 2021. Mid-Permian (End-Guadalupian) Extinctions, in Alderton, D., and Elias, S.A., eds., Encyclopedia of Geology (Second Edition). Oxford, Academic Press, p. 637-644.

申博恒#, 沈树忠*, 侯章帅, 吴琼, 张水昌, 张斌, 张以春,袁东勋, 2021. 中国二叠纪岩石地层划分和对比: 地层学杂志, 45(3): 319-339.

樊隽轩, 王向东, 陈中强, 侯旭东, 沈树忠, 2021. 国际地层委员会动态与《国际年代地层表》(2021/07 版): 地层学杂志, 45(3): 460-466.

Shen, S.Z.*, Yuan, D.X.*, Henderson, C.M., Wu, Q., Zhang, Y.C., Zhang, H., Mu, L., Ramezani, J., Wang, X.D., Lambert, L.L., Erwin, D.H., Hearst, J.M., Xiang, L., Chen, B., Fan, J.X., Wang, Y., Wang, W.Q., Qi, Y.P., Chen, J., Qie, W.K. & Wang, T.T. 2020. Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America. Earth-Science Reviews 211: 103412.

Fan, J.X., Shen, S.Z.* Erwin, D.H., Sadler, P.M., MacLeod, N., Cheng, Q.M., Hou, X.D., Yang J., Wang, X.D., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Chen, X., Li, G.X., Zhang, Y.C., Shi, Y.K., Yuan, D.X., Chen, Q., Zhang, L.N., Li, C. & Zhao, Y.Y. 2020. A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity. Science 367:272-277.

Planavsky, N.J., Hood, A., Tarhan, L.G., Shen, S.Z. & Johnson, K. 2020. Store and share ancient rocks. Nature 581:137-139.

Wang, W.Q., Garbelli, C., Zhang, F.F., Zheng, Q.F., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X., Shi, Y.K., Chen, B. & Shen, S.Z.* 2020. A high-resolution Middle to Late Permian paleotemperature curve reconstructed using oxygen isotopes of well-preserved brachiopod shells. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 540:116245.

Zhang, F.F.*,Shen, S.Z.*, Cui, Y., Lenton,T.M., Dahl, T.W., Zhang, H., Zheng, Q.F., Wang, W.Q., Krainer, K., Anbar, A.D. 2020. Two distinct episodes of marine anoxia during the Permian-Triassic crisis evidenced by uranium isotopes in marine dolomites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 287:165-179.

Zhang, F.F., Dahl, T.W., Lenton, T.M., Luo, G.M., Shen, S.Z., Algeo, T.J., Planavsky, N.J., Liu, J., Cui, Y., Qie, W.K., Romaniello, S.J. & Anbar, A.D. 2020. Extensive marine anoxia associated with the Late Devonian Hangenberg Crisis. Earth and Planetary Science letters 533: 115976.

Chernykh, V.V., Chuvashov, B.I., Shen, S.Z.*, Henderson, C.M., Yuan, D.X., Stephenson, M.H. 2020. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base-Sakmarian Stage (Cisuralian, Lower Permian). Episodes 43(4):961-979.

Henderson, C.M. & Shen, S.Z. 2020. The Permian Period, in Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., eds., Geologic Time Scale 2020. Amsterdam, Oxford, Cambridge, Elsevier, p. 875-902.

Cui, Y., Zhang, F.F., Wang, J.Y., Jiang, S.J. & Shen, S.Z. 2020, Marine anoxia and ocean acidification during the end-Permian extinction. In Ernst, R.E., Dickson, A.J., & Bekker, A. eds. Large Igneous Provinces: A Driver of Global Environmental and Biotic Changes, Geophysical Monograph 255, American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., p. 325-340.

Yao, L., Aretz, M., Wignall, P.B., Chen, J.T., Vachard, D., Qi, Y.P., Shen, S.Z. & Wang, X.D. 2020. The longest delay: re-emergence of coral reef ecosystems after the Late Devonian extinctions. Earth-Science Reviews 203:103060.

Liu, F., Peng, H.P., Bomfleur, B., Kerp, H., Zhu, H.C., Shen, S.Z. 2020, Palynology and vegetation dynamics across the Permian–Triassic boundary in southern Tibet. Earth-Science Reviews, 209:103278.

Zhong, Y.T., Mundil, R., Chen, J., Yuan, D.X., Denyszyn, S.W., Jost, A.B., Payne, J.L., He, B., Shen, S.Z., Xu, Y.G. 2020. Geochemical, biostratigraphic, and high-resolution geochronological constraints on the waning stage of Emeishan Large Igneous Province. GSA Bulletin 132(9-10):1969-1986.

Chen, J., Shen, S.Z., Zhang, Y.C., Angiolini, L., Gorgij, M.N., Crippa, G., Wang, W., Zhang, H., Yuan, D.X., Li, X.H., Xu, Y.G. 2020. Abrupt warming in the latest Permian detected using high-resolution in situ oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite from Abadeh, central Iran: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 109973.

Xiang, L., Schoepfer, S.D., Zhang, H., Chen, Z.W., Cao, C.Q., & Shen, S.Z. 2020. Deep-water dissolved iron cycling and reservoir size across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Chemical Geology 541:119575.

Yuan, D.X., Aung Kyi Pyar, Henderson, C.M., Zhang, Y.C., Zaw Than, Cai, F.L., Ding, L., Shen, S.Z.* First records of Early Permian conodonts from eastern Myanmar and implications of paleobiogeographic links to the Lhasa Block and northwestern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 549:109363.

Hou, Z.S., Fan, J.X., Henderson, C.M., Yuan, D.X., Shen, B.H., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Zheng, Q.F., Z., Zhang, Y.C., Wu, Q. & Shen, S.Z.* 2020. Dynamic palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Wuchiapingian Stage (Lopingian, Late Permian) for the South China Block. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 546:109667.

Wu, Q., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H., Yuan, D.X., Erwin, D.H., Henderson, C.M., Lambert, L.L., Zhang, Y.C. & Shen, S.Z.* 2020. High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Guadalupian in West Texas, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 548:109668.

Zhang, X.Y., Zheng, Q.F., Li, Y., Yang, H.Q., Zhang, H., Wang, W.Q., Shen, S.Z. 2020, Polybessurus-like fossils as key contributors to Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 552:109770.

Zhang, Y.C., Aung Kyi Pyar, Shen, S.Z., Than Zaw, Ding, L., Cai, F.L. & Sein Kyain. Middle Permian fusulines from the Thitsipin Limestone Formation of Shan State, Myanmar and their palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical implications. Papers in Palaeontology 6(2):293-327.

Zhou, W.M., Aung, K.P., Liu, L., Zhang, Y.C., Zaw, T., Wang, J. & Shen, S.Z.* 2020. First record of Cisuralian–Guadalupian plant fossils from the Shan Plateau, eastern Myanmar. Palaeoworld 29:108-116.

Scholze, F., Shen, S.Z., Backer, M., Wei, H.B., Hübner, M., Cui, Y.Y., Feng, Z. & Schneider, J. W. 2020. Reinvestigation of conchostracans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from the Permian–Triassic transition in Southwest China. Palaeoworld 29(2):368-390.

Schneider, J. W., Lucas, S. G., Scholze, F., Voigt, S., Marchetti, L., Klein, H., Opluštil, S., Werneburg, R., Golubev, V. K., Barrick, J. E., Nemyrovska, T., Ronchi, A., Day, M. O., Silantiev, V. V., Rößler, R., Saber, H., Linnemann, U., Zharinova, V. & Shen, S.Z. 2020. Late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic continental biostratigraphy — links to the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Scale. Palaeoworld 29(2):186-238

Wang, J.Y., Jacobson, A.D., Zhang, H., Ramezani, J., Sageman, B.B., Hurtgen, M.T., Bowring, S.A., Shen, S.Z. 2019. Coupled δ^44/40Ca, δ^88/86Sr, and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr geochemistry across the end-Permian mass extinction event. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 262: 143-165.

Xu, H.P., Zhang, Y.C., Qiao, F. & Shen, S.Z.* 2019. A new Changhsingian brachiopod fauna from the Xiala Formation at Tsochen in the central Lhasa Block and its paleogeographical implications. Journal of Paleontology 93(5):876-898.

Garbelli, Claudio*, Shen S.Z.*, Immenhauser, A., Brand, U., Buhl, D., Wang, W.Q., Zhang, H. & Shi, G.R. 2019. Timing of Early and Middle Permian deglaciation of the southern hemisphere: brachiopod-based ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr calibration. Earth and Planetary Science letters 516:122-135.

Shen S.Z.*, Ramezani, J., Chen, J., Cao, C.Q., Erwin, D.H., Zhang, H., Xiang,L., Schoepfer, S.D., Henderson, C.M., Zheng, Q.F., Bowring, S.A., Wang, Y., Li, X.H., Wang, X.D., Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C., Mu, L., Wang, J., Wu, Y.S. 2019. A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China. GSA Bulletin 131(1-2):205-223.

Wu, H.C., Fang, Q., Wang, X.D., Hinnov, L.A., Qi, Y.P., Shen, S.Z., Yang, T.S., Li, H.Y., Chen, J.T. & Zhang, S.H. 2019. A ~34 m.y. astronomical time scale for the uppermost Mississippian through Pennsylvanian of the Carboniferous System of the Paleo-Tethyan Realm. Geology 47(1):83-86.

Shen, S.Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y.C., Yuan, D.X., Chen, B., He, W.H., Mu, L., Lin, W., Wang, W.Q., Chen, J., Wu, Q., Cao, C.Q., Wang, Y. & Wang, X.D. 2019. Permian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Science in China Earth Sciences 62(1):154-188.

Yuan, D.X., Shen, S.Z., Henderson, C.M., Chen, J., Zhang, H., Zheng, Q.F. & Wu, H.C. 2019. Integrative timescale for the Lopingian (Late Permian): A review and update from Shangsi, South China. Earth-Science Reviews 188: 190-209.

Chen, J.T., Montañez, I.P., Qi, Y.P., Shen, S.Z. & Wang, X.D. 2018. Strontium and carbon isotopic evidence for decoupling of pCO₂ from continental weathering at the apex of the late Paleozoic glaciation. Geology 46(5): 395-398.

Wang, W.Q., Garbelli, C., Zheng, Q.F., Chen, J., Liu, X.C., Wang, W. & Shen, S.Z.* 2018. Permian ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr chemostratigraphy from carbonate sequences in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 500:84-94.

Xu, H.P., Cao, C.Q., Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C. & Shen, S.Z.* 2018. Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopod faunas from the Qubuerga Formation at Tulong and Kujianla in the Mt. Everest area of southern Tibet, China. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 124: 139-162.

Shen, S.Z. 2018. Global Permian brachiopod biostratigraphy: An overview. Special Publications of the Geological Society of London 450:289-320.

Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C.& Shen, S.Z.* 2018. Conodont succession and reassessment of major events around the Permian-Triassic boundary at the Selong Xishan section, southern Tibet, China. Global and Planetary Change 161: 194-210.

Yuan, D.X., Shen, S.Z. & Henderson, C.M. 2017. Revised Wuchiapingian conodont taxonomy and succession of South China. Journal of Paleontology 91:1199-1219.

Zhang, C., Bucher, H., & Shen, S.Z.* 2017. Griesbachian and Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Qubu in the Mt. Everest area, southern Tibet. Palaeoworld 26:650-662.

Shen, S.Z., Jin, Y.G., Zhang, Y. & Weldon, E.A. 2017. Permian brachiopod genera on type species of China. In: Rong, J.Y., Jin, Y.G., Shen, S.Z. & Zhan, R.B. (eds), Phanerozoic Brachiopod Genera of China. Beijing: Science Press, 651–881.

Shen, S.Z., Qiao, L., Zhang, Y., Sun, Y.L., & Jin, Y.G. 2017. Carboniferous brachiopod genera on type species of China. In: Rong, J.Y., Jin, Y.G., Shen, S.Z. & Zhan, R.B. (eds), Phanerozoic Brachiopod Genera of China. Beijing: Science Press, 563–653.

Godbold, A., Schoepfer, S., Shen, S.Z. & Henderson, C.M. 2017. Precarious ephemeral refugia during the earliest Triassic. Geology 45:607-610.

沈树忠, 张华. 2017. 什么引起五次生物大灭绝？科学通报 62(11):1119-1135.

Liu, S.A., Wu, H.C., Shen, S.Z., Jiang, G.Q., Zhang, S.H., Lv, Y.W., Zhang, H. & Li, S.G. 2017. Zinc isotope evidence for intensive magmatism immediately before the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology 45: 343-346.

Dudás, F.Ö., Yuan, D.X., Shen, S.Z. & Bowring, S.A. 2017. A conodont-based revision of the ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr seawater curve across the Permian-Triassic boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 470: 40-53.

Xiang, L., Schoepfer, S.D., Shen, S.Z., Cao, C.Q. & Zhang, H. 2017, Evolution of oceanic molybdenum and uranium reservoir size around the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition: Evidence from western Zhejiang, South China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 464:84-94.

Garbelli, C., Angiolini, L. & Shen, S.Z. 2017. Biomineralization and global change: A new perspective for understanding the end-Permian extinction. Geology 45(1):19-22.

Wu, Q., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H., Wang, T.T., Yuan, D.X., Mu, L., Zhang, Y.C., Li, X.H. & Shen, S.Z. 2017. Calibrating the Guadalupian Series (Middle Permian) of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 466: 361-372.

Shen, S.Z., Sun, T.R., Zhang, Y.C. & Yuan, D.X. 2016. An upper Kungurian/lower Guadalupian (Permian) brachiopod fauna from the South Qiangtang Block in Tibet and its palaeobiogeographical implications. Palaeoworld 25(4): 519-538.

Zhang, Y.C., Shen, S.Z., Zhang, Y.J., Zhu, T.X., An, X.Y. 2016. Middle Permian non-fusuline foraminifers from the middle part of the Xiala Formation in Xainza County, Lhasa Block, Tibet. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 46(2):99-114.

Zhang, Y.C., Shen, S.Z., Zhai, Q.G., Zhang, Y.J., Yuan, D.X. 2016. Discovery of a Sphaeroschwagerina fusuline fauna from the Raggyorcaka Lake area, northern Tibet: implications for the origin of the Qiangtang metamorphic belt. Geoloical Magazine 153(3):537-543.

Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C., Shen, S.Z., Henderson, C.M., Zhang, Y.J., Zhu, T.X., An, X.Y. & Feng, H.Z. 2016. Early Permian conodonts from the Xainza area, central Lhasa Block, Tibet and their palaeobiogeographical and palaeoclimatic implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):365-383.

Chen, J., Shen, S.Z., Li, X.H., Xu, Y.G., Joachimski, M.M., Bowring, S.A., Erwin, D.H., Yuan, D.X., Chen, B., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Cao, C.Q., Zheng, Q.F. & Mu, L. 2016. High-resolution SIMS oxygen isotope analysis on conodont apatite from South China and implications for the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448: 26-38.

Xiang, L., Schoepfer, S. D., Zhang, H., Yuan, D.X., Cao, C.Q., Zheng, Q.F., Henderson, C.M., & Shen, S.Z. 2016. Oceanic redox evolution across the end-Permian mass extinction at Shangsi, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448: 59-71.

Ke, Y., Shen, S.Z.*, Shi, G.R., Fan, J.X., Zhang, H., Qiao, L. & Zeng, Y. 2016. Global brachiopod palaeobiogeographical evolution from Changhsingian (Late Permian) to Rhaetian (Late Triassic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448: 4-25.

Zhang, H., Cao, C.Q., Liu, X.L., Mu, L., Zheng, Q.F., Liu, F., Xiang, L., Liu, L.J. & Shen, S.Z.*. 2016. The terrestrial end-Permian mass extinction in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448: 108-124.

Zhang, G.J., Zhang, X.L., Li, D.D., Farquhar, J., Shen, S.Z., Chen, X.Y. & Shen, Y. 2015, Widespread shoaling of sulfidic waters linked to the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction. Geology 43(12):1091-1094.

Yuan, D.X., Chen, J., Zhang, Y.C., Zheng, Q.F. & Shen, S.Z. 2015. Changhsingian conodont succession and the end-Permian mass extinction event at the Daijiagou section in Chongqing, Southwest China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 105:234-251.

Qiao, L. & Shen, S.Z. 2015. A global review of the Late Mississippian (Carboniferous) Gigantoproductus (Brachiopoda) faunas and their paleogeographical, paleoecological, and paleoclimatic implications: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 420:128-137.

Shen, S.Z. & Bowring, S.A. 2014. The end-Permian mass extinction: A still unexplained catastrophe. National Science Review 1(4):492-495.

Yang, B., Yuan, D.X., Henderson, C.M. & Shen, S.Z.* 2014. Parafurnishius, an Induan (Lower Triassic) conodont new genus from northeastern Sichuan, South China and its evolutionary implications. Palaeoworld 23:263-275.

Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C.,Zhang, Y.J., Zhu, T.X. & Shen, S.Z.* 2014. First records of Wuchiapingian (Late Permian) conodonts in the Xainza area, Lhasa Block, Tibet, and their palaeobiogeographical implications. Alcheringa 38(4):546-556.

Qiao, L. & Shen, S.Z. 2014. Global palaeobiogeography of brachiopods during the early Carboniferous—response to the global tectonic reconfiguration, ocean circulation, and climate changes. Gondwana Research 26:1173-1185.

Yuan, D.X., Shen, S.Z.*, Henderson, C.M., Chen, J. & Zhang, H. 2014. Revised conodont-based integrated high-resolution timescale for the Changhsingian Stage and end-Permian extinction interval at the Meishan sections, South China. Lithos 204: 220-245.

Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A. & Shen, S.Z. 2014. A new high-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(9):3316-3321.

Wang, Y., Sadler, P.M., Shen S.Z., Erwin, D.H., Zhang, Y.C., Wang, X.D., Wang, W., Crowley, J.L., Henderson, C.M., 2014. Quantifying the process and abruptness of the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology 40(1):113-129.

Shen, S.Z., Cao, C.Q., Zhang, H., Bowring, S.A., Henderson, C.M., Payne, J.L., Davydov, V.I., Chen, B., Yuan, D.X., Zhang, Y.C., Wang, W. & Zheng, Q.F. 2013. High-resolution δ¹³Ccarb chemostratigraphy from latest Guadalupian through earliest Triassic in South China and Iran. Earth and Planetary Science letters 375:156-165.

Shen, S.Z., Zhang, H., Shi, G.R., Li, W.Z., Xie, J.F.., Mu, L., Fan, J.X. 2013. Early Permian (Cisuralian) global brachiopod palaeobiogeography. Gondwana Research 24(1):104-124.

Shen, S.Z., Schneider, J.W., Angiolini, L. & Henderson, C.M. 2013. The international timescale: March 2013 update. In: Lucas, S.G. et al., eds. The Carboniferous-Permian transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 60, p. 411-416.

Chen, B., Joachimski, M.M., Shen, S.Z., Lambert, L.L., Lai, X.L., Wang, X.D., Chen, J. & Yuan, D.X.. 2013. Permian ice volume and palaeoclimate history: oxygen isotope proxies revisited. Gondwana Research 24(1): 77-89.

Zhang, Y.C., Shi, G.R. & Shen, S.Z. 2013. A review of Permian stratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeogeography of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Gondwana Research 24(1):55-76.

Shen, S.Z., Yuan, D.X., Henderson C.M. & Tazawa J. 2012. Implication of Kungurian (Early Permian) conodonts from Hatahoko, Japan, for correlation between the Tethyan and international timescales. Micropaleontology 58(6):505-522.

Zhang, Y.C., Shen, S.Z., Shi, G.R., Wang, Y., Yuan, D.X. & Zhang, Y.J. 2012. Tectonic evolution of the Qiangtang Block, northern Tibet during Late Cisuralian (Late Early Permian): evidence from fusuline fossil records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 350–352:139–148.

Hinojosa, J.L., Brown, S.T., Chen, J., DePaolo, D.J., Paytan, A., Shen, S.Z. & Payne, J.L. 2012. Evidence for end-Permian ocean acidification from calcium isotopes in biogenic apatite. Geology 40:743-746.

Joachimski, M.M., Lai, X.L., Shen, S.Z., Jiang, H.S., Luo, G.M., Chen, B., Chen, J. & Sun Y.D. 2012. Climate warming in the latest Permian and the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. Geology 40:195-198.

Qiao, L. & Shen, S.Z. 2012. Late Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) brachiopods from the western Daba Mountains, central China. Alcheringa 36:1–23.

Zeng, J., Cao, C.Q., Davydov, V.I., Shen, S.Z.* 2012. Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and implications of palaeoclimatic changes during the Cisuralian (Early Permian) in the southern Urals, Russia. Gondwana Research 21:601-610.

Shen, S.Z., Crowley, J.L., Wang, Y., Bowring, S.A., Erwin, D.H., Sadler, P.M., Cao, C.Q., Rothman, D.H., Henderson, C.M., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H., Shen, Y., Wang, X.D., Wang, W., Mu, L., Li, W.Z., Tang, Y.G., Liu, X.L., Liu, L.J., Zeng, Y., Jiang, Y.F. & Jin, Y.G., 2011. Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction. Science 334, 1367-1372.

Shen, S.Z., Tazawa J. & Miyake Y. 2011. A Kungurian (Early Permian) Panthalassan brachiopod fauna from Hatahoko in the Mino belt, central Japan. Journal of Paleontology 85(3): 553-566.

Shen, S.Z., Cao, C.Q., Zhang, Y.C., Li, W.Z., Shi, G.R., Wang, Y., Wu, Y.S., Ueno, K., Henderson, C.M., Wang, X.D., Zhang, H., Wang, X.J. & Chen, J. 2010. End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes across the Permian-Triassic boundary in the oceanic carbonate section in Neotethys. Global and Planetary Change 73:3-14.

Shen, S.Z. & Mei, S.L. 2010. Lopingian (Late Permian) high-resolution conodont biostratigraphic framework in Iran. Geological Journal 45(2-3):135-161.

Shen, S.Z., Henderson, C.M., Bowring, S.A., Cao, C.Q., Wang, W., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y.C. & Mu, L. 2010. High-resolution Lopingian (Late Permian) timescale of South China. Geological Journal 45(2-3):122-134.

Shen, S.Z., Zhu, M.Y., Wang, X.D., Li, G.X., Cao, C.Q. & Zhang, H. 2010. A comparison of the biological, geological events and environmental backgrounds between the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian and Permian-Triassic transitions. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences 53(12):1873-1884.

Shen, S.Z. & Shi, G.R. 2009. Latest Guadalupian brachiopods from the Guadalupian/Lopingian boundary GSSP section at Penglaitan in Laibin, Guangxi, South China and implications for the timing of the pre-Lopingian crisis. Palaeoworld 18(2-3):152-161.

Shen, S.Z. & Clapham, M.E. 2009. Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods from the Episkopi Formation at Hydra, Greece. Palaeontology 52(4):713-743.

Shen, S.Z., Xie, J.F., Zhang, H. & Shi, G.R. 2009. Roadian-Wordian (Guadalupian, Middle Permian) global palaeobiogeography of brachiopods. Global and Planetary Change 65:166-181.

Cao, C.Q., Love, G.D., Hays, L.E., Wang, W., Shen, S.Z. & Summons, R.E. 2009. Biogeochemical evidence for euxinic oceans and ecological disturbance presaging the end-Permian mass extinction event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281:188-201.

Clapham, M.E., Shen, S.Z. & Bottjer, D.J. 2009. The double mass extinction revisited: Re-assessing the severity, selectivity, and causes of the end-Guadalupian biotic crisis (Late Permian). Paleobiology 35(1):33-51.

Shen, S.Z. & Zhang, Y.C. 2008. Earliest Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods in southern Hunan, south china: implications for the pre-Lopingian crisis and onset of Lopingian recovery/radiation. Journal of Paleontology 82 (5): 924-937.

Pan, H.Z. & Shen, S.Z. 2008. Late Permian (Lopingian) gastropods from the upper part of the Qubuerga Formation at the Qubu Section in the Mt. Qomolangma (Everest) region, southern Tibet (Xizang), China. Journal of Paleontology 82(5):1038-1042.

Cao, C.Q., Wang, W., Liu, L.J., Shen, S.Z. & Summons, R.E. 2008. Two episodes of δ¹³C-depletion in organic carbon in the latest Permian: Evidence from the terrestrial sequences in northern Xinjiang, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 270(3/4):251-257.

Li, W.Z. & Shen, S.Z.*2008. Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods around the Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian boundary at the Meishan sections C and D, Changxing, South China. Geobios 41(2):307-320.

Shen, S.Z., Wang, Y., Henderson, C.M., Cao, C.Q. & Wang W. 2007. Biostratigraphy and lithofacies of the Permian System in the Laibin-Heshan area of Guangxi, South China. Palaeoworld 16(1-3):120-139.

Shen, S.Z., Zhang, H., Li, W.Z., Mu, L. & Xie, J.F. 2006. Brachiopod diversity pattern from Carboniferous to Triassic in South China. Geological Journal 41(3): 345-361.

Shen, S.Z., Zhang, H., Shang Q.H. & Li, W.Z. 2006. Permian lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Northeast China: A review. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 26:304-326.

Shen, S.Z., Cao, C.Q., Henderson, C.M., Wang, X.D., Shi, G.R. Wang, W. & Wang, Y. 2006. End-Permian mass extinction pattern in the northern peri-Gondwanan region. Palaeoworld 15(1):3-30.

Jin, Y.G., Shen, S.Z.*, Henderson, C.M., Wang, X.D., Wang, W., Wang, Y., Cao, C.Q. & Shang, Q.H. 2006. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the boundary between the Capitanian and Wuchiapingian stage (Permian). Episodes 29(4): 253-262.

Jin, Y.G., Wang, Y., Henderson, C.M., Wardlaw, B.R., Shen, S.Z., Cao, C.Q. & Wang, W., 2006. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base-Changhsingian Stage (Upper Permian). Episodes 29(3): 175-182.

Shen, S.Z., Tazawa, J. & Shi, G.R. 2005. Carboniferous and Permian Rugosochonetidae (Brachiopoda) from West Spitsbergen. Alcheringa 29(2):241-256.

He, W.H., Shen, S.Z., Feng, Q.L. & Gu, S.Z. 2005. A late Changhsingian deep-water brachiopod fauna from the Talung Formation at the Dongpan Section in southwestern Guangxi, South China. Journal of Paleontology 79(5): 927-938.

Xu, H.K., Shen, S.Z.* & Cheng, L.R. 2005. Linoldhamininae, a new subfamily of Lyttoniidae Waagen, 1883 (Brachiopoda) from the Guadalupian (Middle Permian) Xiala Formation in the Xainza area, northern Tibet. Journal of Paleontology 79(5):1012-1018.

Shen, S.Z., Grunt, T.G. & Jin, Y.G. 2004. A comparative study of Comelicaniidae Merla, 1930 (Brachiopoda, Athyridida) from the Lopingian (Late Permian) of South China and Transcaucasia in Azerbaijan and Iran. Journal of Paleontology 78(5):884-899.

Shen, S.Z. & Shi, G.R. 2004. Capitanian (Late Guadalupian, Permian) global brachiopod palaeobiogeography and latitudinal diversity pattern. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 208(3/4): 235-262.

Shen, S.Z., Cao, C.Q., Shi, G.R., Wang, X.D. & Mei, S.L. 2003. Lopingian (Late Permian) stratigraphy, sedimentation and palaeobiogeography in southern Tibet. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 39(2/3):157-179.

Shen, S.Z., Shi, G.R. & Archbold, N.W. 2003. A Wuchiapingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from an exotic block in the Indus-Tsangpo Suture zone, southern Tibet and its palaeobiogeographical and tectonic implication. Palaeontology 46(2):225-256.

Shen, S.Z., Sun, D.L. & Shi, G.R. 2003. A biogeographically mixed late Guadalupian (late Middle Permian) brachiopod fauna from an exotic limestone block at Xiukang in Lhaze County of Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 21(10):1125-1137.

Shen, S.Z., Shi, G.R. & Fang, Z.J. 2002. Permian brachiopods from the Baoshan and Simao Blocks in Western Yunnan, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 20:665-682.

Shen, S.Z. & Shi, G.R. 2002. Paleobiogeographical extinction patterns of Permian brachiopods in the Asian-western Pacific Region. Paleobiology 28(4):449-463.

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l  2022: Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize.

l  2022: The Mystery of Mass Extinctions won the 2022 Outstanding Popular Science Book Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

l  2022: Research Contribution Award, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University.

l  2021: Awarded the title of Advanced Worker of Jiangsu Province in 2020.

l  2021: Outstanding Research Contribution Award, Nanjing University, 2020.

l  2021: Scientists Reconstruct the History of Earth's Biodiversity Over 300 Million Years Ago was selected as one of the Top Ten Scientific Advances of China in 2020, Top Ten Science and Technology News of China in 2020, and Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances of Chinese Universities in 2020.

l  2019: ICS Medal, International Commission on Stratigraphy.

l  2015: Li Siguang Geological Science Award.

l  2013: Yin Zanxun Stratigraphic and Paleontological Award, Paleontological Society of China.

l  2012: Clarifying the Pattern and Causes of the Late Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction was selected as one of the Top Ten Scientific Advances of China in 2012.

l  2011: Outstanding Contribution Award, Third Phase of the 333 New Century Science and Technology Leaders Project in Jiangsu Province.

l  2010: Research on the Lopingian and the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction in China won the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award (second recipient).

l  2008: Mass Extinction at the Permian-Triassic Boundary won the First Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (second recipient).

l  2004: National Candidate for the New Century Ten Thousand Talent Project.

l  2003: Outstanding Returned Scholars Achievement Award.