基本信息


朱茂炎：男，1963年，安徽省望江县。中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所研究员、学术委员会主任，中国科学院大学岗位教授，南京大学生物演化与环境科教融合中心责任教授，德国哥廷根科学院外籍通讯院士。发表包括Science/Nature/PNAS论文220余篇、专著3部。
电 话：
Email: myzhu@nigpas.ac.cn






研究领域
主要从事新元古代-寒武纪地球环境和生物演化研究， 包括新元古代和寒武纪地层学、古生物学、沉积与古环境背景研究等。


教育背景1989-09--1992-09中科院南京地质古生物研究所博士学位
1985-09--1988-07长春地质学院硕士学位
1981-09--1985-07长春地质学院学士学位


教授课程地史学
固体地球系统科学前沿讲座
宜昌三峡地区研究生野外实习


学术兼职国际地层委员会埃迪卡拉纪地层分会选举委员
国际地层委员会寒武纪地层分会选举委员
国际地层委员会寒武系纽芬兰统幸运界国际工作组主席
全国地层委员会新元古界工作组组长
中国古生物学会地球生物学分会副理事长
《地层学杂志》主编
《中国科学：地球科学》（中英文版）副主编
《Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology》编委
《Journal of Earth Sciences》编委
《科技导报》编委
《世界地质》（中英文版）编委



获奖情况中国科学院自然科学特等奖（1997）
香港求是科技基金会“杰出科技成就集体奖”（1997）
贵州省科技进步二等奖2项（2003、2015）
中国古生物学会“尹赞勋地层古生物学奖”（2009）
中国科学院“朱李月华优秀教师奖”（2016）
江苏省科学技术一等奖（2016）
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论著目录
专著：
胡世学，朱茂炎，罗惠麟，米歇尔-斯坦纳，赵方臣，李国祥，刘琦，张志飞，关山生物群。云南科技出版社，2013，昆明。
赵元龙，朱茂炎，Babcock, L., 彭进(主编)，凯里生物群：5.08亿年前的海洋生物。贵州科技出版社，2011，贵阳。
陈均远，周桂琴，朱茂炎，叶贵玉，澄江生物群—寒武纪生命大爆炸的见证。国立自然博物馆出版。1996，台中
编辑论文集
Zhu, M., Li, X.-H. (eds.), From snowball Earth to the Cambrian explosion–evidence from China. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1187-1397.
Li, C., Zhu, M. Y., Chu, X. L. (eds.), Atmospheric and Oceanic Oxygenation and Evolution of Early Life on Earth: New Contributions from China. Journal of Earth Science, 27(2) (2016), 167–328.
Maletz, J., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M. (eds.), The Cambrian bioradiation. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 1-186.
Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M. (eds.), Biogeochemical changes across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 1-230.
Fatka, V., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M. (eds.), The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (1) (2012), 67-200.
Zhao, Y., Zhu, M., Peng, J., Gaines, R. R., Parsley, R.L. (eds.), Cryogenian – Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29 (Suppl.) (2012), 1-198.
朱茂炎(主编), 动物的起源和寒武纪大爆发：来自中国的化石证据。古生物学报，49(3) 2010)，269-424。
Zhu, M., Strauss, H., Shields, G. A. (eds.), From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian Earth history in South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology，Special Issue, 54 (1-2) (2007), 1-361.
Zhu, M.-Y., Babcock, L. E. (eds.). The Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System, 19th-23th August, 2005, Nanjing China. Palaeoworld, Special Issue, 15 (2006), 217-431.
Peng, S., Babcock, L. E., Zhu, M. (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei, (2005), 1-300.
Peng, S., Zhu, M., Li, G. & Van Iten, H. (eds.), Abstracts and Short Papers. The Fourth Interantional Symposium on the Cambrian System, Nanjing, August 18-24, 2005. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 22(Suppl.) (2005), 1-223.
Zhu, M., Steiner, M. (eds.), Biological and Geological Processes of the Cambrian Explosion. Progress in Natural Science, Special Issue 2004, (2004), 1-158.
Zhu, M., Van Iten, H., Peng, S., and Li, G. (eds.), Cambrian of South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinia, 40 (Suppl.) (2001), 1-241.
Peng, S., Babcock, L. E. and Zhu, M. (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 1-310.
论文 (按年代自新至老排列; *非第一作者论文通讯作者）

Rooney, A. D., Yang, C., Condon, D.J., Zhu, M., Macdonald, F. A., U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology tracks stratigraphic condensation in the Sturtian snowball Earth aftermath. Geology, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47246.1
Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S.W., Thompson, J., Husband, K. F., Zhu, M., Zhou, Y., Shields, G. A., Lenton, T. M., Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen. Nature Geoscience, 13(2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0548-7
Zhou, Y. *, Pogge von Strandmann, P.A.E., Zhu, M.*, Ling, H., Manning, C., Li, D., He, T., Shields, G.A., Reconstructing Tonian seawater ⁸7Sr/⁸⁶Sr using calcite microspar. Geology, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46756.1
Aria, C., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Guo, J., Zhu, M. *, Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan. BMC Evolutionary Biology, (2020) 20:4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1560-7
Hu, C., Zhu, M.*, Lithofacies and glacio-tectonic deformation structures of the Tiesi'ao/Dongshanfeng Formations on the Yangtze Block, South China: Implications for Sturtian Glaciation dynamics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 538 (2020):109481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109481
Sun, H., Zhao, F., Steiner, M., Li, G., Na, L., Pan, B., Yin, Z., Zeng, H., Van Iten, H., Zhu, M.*, Skeletal faunas of the lower Cambrian Yu'anshan Formation, eastern Yunnan, China: Metazoan diversity and community structure during the Cambrian Age 3. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 542 (2020):109580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109580
Sun, H., Yin, Z., Li, G., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Zhu, M., Periodic shell decollation as an ecology-driven strategy in the early Cambrian Cupitheca. Palaeontology, 2019, DOI:10.1111/pala.12463
Wei, G.-Y., Ling, H.-F., Shields, G.A., Chen, T.Y., Lechte, M., Chen, X., Qiu, C., Lei, H., Zhu, M., Long-term evolution of terrestrial inputs from the Ediacaran to early Cambrian: Clues from Nd isotopes in shallow-marine carbonates, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 535(2019): 109367.
Bottjer, D.J., Yin, Z., Zhao, F., Zhu, M., Comparative taphonomy and phylogenetic signal of phosphatized Weng’an and Kuanchuanpu Biotas. Precambrian Research, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105408
Yin, Z., Vargas, K., Cunningham, J., Bengtson, S., Zhu, M., Marone, F., Donoghue, P., The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology. Current Biology, 29(2019):1-8.
Zhang, T., Yuan, D., Xie, J., Lei, Y., Li, J., Fang, G., Ling, T., Liu, J., Cui, Y., Zhang, M., Xiao, Y., Xu, Y., Zhang, J., Zhu, M., Zhan S., Li, S., Evolution of the Cholesterol Biosynthesis Pathway in Animals. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(2019):2548-2556.
朱茂炎，赵方臣，殷宗军，曾晗，李国祥，中国的寒武纪大爆发研究: 进展与展望。中国科学：地球科学, 49 (2019), 1455-1490。
Shields, G.A.*, Mills, B.J.W.*, Zhu, M.*, Raub, T.D., Daines, S., Lenton, T.M., Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial. Nature Geoscience, 12(2019): 823-827.
He, T. *, Zhu, M.*, Mills, B. J.W., Wynn, P. M., Zhuravlev, A. Yu., Tostevin, R., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., Yang, A., Poulton, S. W., Shields, G. A.*, Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals. Nature Geoscience, (2019), 12:468-474.
Sun, W.C., Yin, Z.J., Donoghue, P., Liu, P.J., Shang, X.D., Zhu, M.Y., Tubular microfossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) are not early animals. Palaeoworld, 28(2019):469-477.
Miao, L., Moczyd?owska, M.*, Zhu, S., Zhu, M.*, New record of organic-walled, morphologically distinct microfossils from the late Paleoproterozoic Changcheng Group in the Yanshan Range, North China. Precambrian Research, 321 (2019), 172-198.
Zhu, M., Yang, A., Yuan, J., Li, G., Zhang, J., Zhao, F., Ahn, S.-Y., Miao, L., Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Sci China Earth Sci, 62 (2019), 25-60. 朱茂炎, 杨爱华, 袁金良, 李国祥, 张俊明, 赵方臣, Ahn, Soo-Yeun, 苗兰云, 中国寒武纪综合地层和时间框架。中国科学：地球科学, 49 (2019), 26-65。
纪秋梅，吕苗，张俊明，胡春林，朱茂炎*，埃迪卡拉纪全球成磷事件沉积地球化学模型探讨：以扬子板块不同相区陡山沱组含磷岩层研究为实例。高校地质学报，25 (2019), 068-080。
Li, C., Cheng, M., Zhu, M., Lyon, T.W., Heterogeneous and dynamic marine shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2(2) (2018), 279-288.
Sun, H., Malinky, J.M., Zhu, M., Huang, D., Palaeobiology of orthothecide hyoliths from the Cambrian Manto Formation of Hebei Province, North China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63 (2018), 87-101.
Sun, H., Smith, M.R., Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Li, G., Zhu, M., Hyoliths with pedicles illuminate the origin of the brachiopod body plan. Proc. R. Soc. B, 285 (2018), **.
Wang, D., Ling, H., Struck, U., Zhu, X.-K., Zhu, M., He, T., Yang, B., Gamper, A., Shields, G.A., Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Nature Communications, 9 (2018), 2575.
Yang, C., Li, X.H., Zhu, M., Condon, D.J., Chen, J., Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China Journal of the Geological Society, 175(2018), 659-666.
Yin, Z., Zhao, D., Pan, B., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Li, G., Bottjer, D.J., Zhu, M., Early Cambrian animal diapause embryos revealed by X-ray tomography. Geology, 46(2018), 387-390.
Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., A new radiodontan oral cone with a combination of anatomical features from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerst?tte, eastern Yunnan, South China. Journal of Paleontology, 92 (2018), 40-48.
Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Morphology of diverse radiodontan head sclerites from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte, south-west China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16 (2018), 1-37.
胡春林，赵方臣，纪秋梅，朱茂炎, 宁镇山脉的盖帽碳酸盐岩。地层学杂志，42 (2018), 381-392。
朱茂炎, 虫子的一小步, 动物演化史上的一大步。科学通报，63 (2018), 2197-2198。
Ahn, A.Y., Zhu, M., Lowermost Cambrian acritarchs from the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: implication for defining the base of the Cambrian in the Yangtze Platform. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1217-1231.
Yin, Z., Cunningham, J.A., Vergas, K., Bengtson, S., Zhu, M., Donoghue, P.C.J., Nuclei and nucleoli in embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota. Precambrian Research, 301 (2017), 145-151.
Hu, S.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhao, F.-C., Steiner, M., A crown group priapulid from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerst?tte. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1329–1333.
Kruse, P. D., Zhuravlev, A. Yu., Parkhaev, P. Yu., Zhu, M., Comment: A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia by Marissa J. Betts, John R. Paterson, James B. Jago, Sarah M. Jacquet, Christian B. Skovsted, Timothy P. Topper & Glenn A. Brock, Gondwana Research, 44 (2017), 258-261.
Wood, R. Zhuravlev, A.Yu., Sukhov, S.S., Zhu, M., and Zhao, F., Demise of Ediacaran dolomitic seas marks widespread biomineralisation on the Siberian platform. Geology, 45 (2017), 27-30.
Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Appendages of an early Cambrian metadoxidid trilobite from Yunnan, SW China support mandibulate affinities of trilobites and artiopods. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1306-1328.
Zhao, F., Smith, M.R., Yin, Z., Zeng, H., Li G., Zhu, M., Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp. and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution. Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), 16232. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16304-6.
Yang, C., Zhu, M., Condon, D.J., Li, X.-H., Geochronological constraints on stratigraphic correlation and oceanic oxygenation in Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 140 (2017), 75–81.
Yang, C., Li, X.-H., Zhu, M., Condon, D., SIMS U–Pb zircon geochronological constraints on upper Ediacaran stratigraphic correlations, South China. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1202–1216.
Zhu, M., Li, X.-H., Introduction: from snowball Earth to the Cambrian explosion–evidence from China. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1187–1192.
Zhu, M., Zhuravlev, A.Yu., Wood, R.A., Zhao, F., Sukhov, S.S., A deep root for the Cambrian explosion: Implications of new bio- and chemostratigraphy from the Siberian Platform. Geology, 45 (2017), 459-462.
Zhu, S., Zhu, M.*, Knoll, A.H., Yin, Z., Zhao, F., Sun, S., Qu, Y., Shi, M., Liu, H., Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China. Nature Communications, 7 (2016), 11500, doi: 10.1038/ncomms11500.
He, T., Zhou, Y., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M., Carter, A., von Strandmann, P. A.E. P., Shields, G.A., Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448 (2016), 145-159.
Yang, B., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Li, G., Liu, J., Liu, P., Transitional Ediacaran-Cambrian small skeletal fossil assemblages from South China and Kazakhstan: Implications for chronostratigraphy and metazoan evolution. Precambrian Research, 285 (2016), 202-215.
Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Bottjer, D.J., Zhao, F., Tafforeau, P., Meroblastic cleavage identifies some Ediacaran Doushantuo (China) embryo-like fossils as metazoans. Geology, 44 (2016), 735-738.
Luo, C., Zhu, M., Reitner, J., The Jinxian Biota revisited: taphonomy and body plan of the Neoproterozoic discoid fossils from the southern Liaodong Peninsula, North China. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 90 (2016), 205-224.
Duda, J.-P., Zhu, M., Reitner, J., Depositional dynamics of a bituminous carbonate facies in a tectonically induced intra-platform basin: the Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation, Ediacaran Period). Carbonate Evaporates, 31 (2016), 87–99.
Li, C., Zhu, M. Y., Chu, X. L., Atmospheric and Oceanic Oxygenation and Evolution of Early Life on Earth: New Contributions from China. Journal of Earth Science, 27(2) (2016), 167–169.
Och, L.M., Cremonese, L., Shields-Zhou, G.A., Poulton, S.W., Struck, U., Ling, H., Li, D., Chen, X., Manning, C., Thirlwall, M., Strauss, H., Zhu, M., Palaeoceanographic controls on spatial redox distribution over the Yangtze Platform during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Sedimentology, 63 (2016), 378-410.
Yang, A., Zhu, M., Zhuravlev, A. Y., Yuan, K., Zhang, J., Chen, Y., Archaeocyathan zonation of the Yangtze Platform: Implications for regional and global correlation of lower Cambrian stages. Geological Magazine, 153 (2016), 388-409.
朱茂炎，全球新元古代沉积地层研究现状。见：孙枢、王铁冠主编：中国东部中—新元古界地质学与油气资源，第1章。北京: 科学出版社。(2016), 3-24。
朱茂炎，张俊明，杨爱华，李国祥，赵方臣，吕苗，殷宗军， 华南新元古代地层、生－储－盖层发育与沉积环境。见：孙枢、王铁冠主编：中国东部中—新元古界地质学与油气资源，第5章。北京: 科学出版社。(2016), 107-135。
Babcock, L. E., Peng, S., Brett, C. E., Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P., Bevis, M., Robison, R.A., Global climate, sea level cycles, and biotic events in the Cambrian Period. Palaeoworld, 24 (2015), 5-15.
Chen, X., Ling, H.-F., Vance, D., Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M., Poulton, S.W., Och, L.M., Jiang, S.-Y., Li, D., Cremonese, L., Archer, C., Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals. Nature Communications, 6 (2015): 7142.
Condon, D. J., Boggiani, P., Fike, D., Halverson, G.P., Kasemann, S., Knoll, A.H., Macdonald, F.A., Prave, A.R., Zhu, M., Accelerating Neoproterozoic research through scientific drilling. Scientific Drilling, 19 (2015), 17–25.
Cui, H., Kaufman, A.J., Xiao, S., Zhu, M., Zhou, C., Liu, X.-M., Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: Integrated chemostratigraphic (δ¹³C–δ³⁴S–⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr–Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 405 (2015), 48-62.
Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S. W., Butterfield, N. J., Zhu, M., Shields-Zhou, G. A., A global transition to ferruginous conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean. Nature Geoscience, 8 (2015), 466-470.
Lan, Z., Li, X., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Revisiting the Liantuo Formation in Yangtze Block, South China: SIMS U–Pb zircon age constraints and regional and global significance. Precambrian Research, 263 (2015), 123-141.
Wang, D., Struck, U., Ling, H., Guo, Q., Shields-Zhou, G.A., Zhu, M., Yao, S., Marine redox variations and nitrogen cycle of the early Cambrian southern margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: Evidence from nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes. Precambrian Research, 267 (2015), 209-226.
Yin, Z., Zhu, M.*, Davidson, E. H., Bottjer, D.J., Zhao, F., Tafforeau, P., Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian. PNAS, 112 (12) (2015), E1453–E1460.
Zhao, F.-C., Smith, M.R., Yin, Z.-J., Zeng, H., Hu, S.-X., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., First report of Wiwaxia from the Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte. Geological Magazine, 152 (2015), 378-382.
邓义楠, 郭庆军, 朱茂炎, 张俊明, 湘西下寒武统牛蹄塘组黑色岩系的微量元素地球化学特征。矿物岩石地球化学通报，34 (2015), 410-418。
杨爱华，朱茂炎，张俊明，赵方臣，吕苗， 扬子板块埃迪卡拉系(震旦系)陡山沱组层序地层划分与对比。古地理学报，17 (2015), 1-20。
Babcock, L. E., Peng, S., Zhu, M., Xiao, S., Ahlberg, P., Proposed reassessment of the Cambrian GSSP. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 98 (2014), 3-10.
Boyle, R. A., Dahl, T.W., Dale, A.W., Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M., Brasier, M. D., Canfield, D. E., Lenton, T. M., Stabilization of the coupled oxygen and phosphorus cycles by the evolution of bioturbation. Nature Geoscience, 7 (2014), 671-676.
Duda, J.-P., Blumenberg, M., Thiel, V., Simon, K., Zhu, M., Reitner, J., Geobiology of a palaeoecosystem with Ediacara-type fossils: The Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation, South China). Precambrian Research, 225 (2014), 48-62.
Huang, D., Chen, J., Zhu, M. & Zhao, F., The burrow dwelling behaviour and locomotion of palaeoscolecidian worms: New fossil evidence from the Cambrian Chengjiang fauna. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 154-164.
Lan, Z., Li, X., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Lu, D., Liu, Y., Tang, G., A rapid and synchronous initiation of the wide spread Cryogenian glaciations. Precambrian Research, 256 (2014), 401-411.
Liu, P.*, Chen, S.*, Zhu, M.*, Li, M., Yin, C., Shang, X., High-resolution biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Chenjiayuanzi section of the Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implication for subdivision and global correlation of the Ediacaran System. Precambrian Research, 249 (2014), 199-214.
Maletz, J., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M., The Cambrian bioradiation event: A Chinese perspective. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 1-3.
Steiner, M., Qian, Y., Li, G., Hagadorn, J. W. & Zhu, M., The developmental cycles of early Cambrian Olivooidae fam. Nov. (?Cycloneuralia) from the Yangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 97-124.
Xiao, S., Zhou, C., Zhu, M., International Symposium and Field Workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy. Episodes, 37 (2014), 218-221.
Wu, W., Zhu, M. *, Steiner, M., Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 86-96.
Yin, Z., Liu, P., Li, G., Tafforeau, P., Zhu. M.*, Biological and taphonomic implications of Ediacaran fossil embryos undergoing cytokinesis. Gondwana Research, 25 (2014), 1019-1026.
Zeng, H., Zhao F., Yin, Z., Li, G. & Zhu, M., A Chengjiang-type fossil assemblage from the Hongjingshao Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) at Chenggong, Kunming, Yunnan. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59 (2014), 3169-3175.
Zhao, F., Caron, J.-B., Bottjer, D.J., Hu, S., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China. Paleobiology, 40(1) (2014), 50-69.
Zhao, F., Hu, S., Zeng, H., Zhu, M., A new helmetiid arthropod from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte, southwest China. Journal of Paleontology, 88(2) (2014), 367–370.
邓义楠, 郭庆军, 朱茂炎, 张俊明, 湘西寒武纪早期黑色岩系中干酪根的稀土元素地球化学特征。 地球科学，39 (2014), 283-292。
苗兰云，朱茂炎*， 华北板块南部寒武系底部辛集组遗迹化石及其时代意义。古生物学报，53(3) (2014), 274-289。
殷宗军，黎刚，朱茂炎， 两种微体化石三维无损成像技术的对比。微体古生物学报，31(4) (2014), 440-452。
Zhu, M., Lu, M., Zhang, J., Zhao, F., Li, G., Zhao, X., Zhao, M., Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and sedimentary facies evolution of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in western Hubei, South China. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 7-28.
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Guo, Q., Strauss, H., Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Lu, M., Zhao, F., 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 (2013), 209-217.
Zhao, F., Bottjer, D.J., Hu, S., Yin, Z., Zhu, M.*, Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems. Scientific Reports, 3 (2013), 2751. doi: 10.1038/srep02751.
Fatka, V., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M., The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (2012), 67-70.
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彭善池, 汪啸风, 肖书海, 童金南, 华洪, 朱茂炎, 赵元龙, 建议在我国统一使用全球通用的正式年代地层单位——埃迪卡拉系(纪)。地层学杂志，36 (2012), 57-61。
Zhu, M., Wang, H., Neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites of the Tarim Block, NW China. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P. & Shields-Zhou, G. (eds) The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 36 (2011), 367–378.
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Van Iten, H., Zhu, M., Li, G., Redescription of Haxaconularia He and Yang, 1986 (Lower Cambrian, South China): Implications for the affinities of conulariid-like small shelly fossils. Palaeontology, 53 (2010), 191-199.
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杨兴莲，赵元龙，朱茂炎，崔滔，杨凯迪，贵州丹寨寒武系牛蹄塘组海绵动物化石及其环境背景。古生物学报，49(3) (2010)，348-359。
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殷宗军，朱茂炎*，贵州新元古代瓮安生物群中动物胚胎化石研究进展。 科技导报，28(6) (2010)，103-111。
殷宗军，朱茂炎*，新元古代磷酸盐化外包型腔原肠胚化石在瓮安生物群中的发现。古生物学报，49(3) (2010)，325-335。
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殷宗军，朱茂炎*，肖体乔，同步辐射X射线相衬显微CT在古生物学中的应用。物理，38(7) (2009)，504-510。
吕苗，朱茂炎，赵美娟，湖北宜昌茅坪泗溪剖面埃迪卡拉系岩石地层和碳同位素地层研究。地层学杂志，33 (2009)，359-372。
阎斌，朱祥坤，唐索寒，朱茂炎，广西三江地区富禄组条带状铁建造的铁同位素初步研究。矿物学报，83 (增刊) (2009)，617-619。
朱茂炎，揭秘动物起源和寒武纪大爆发的历史过程以及地球环境背景。见：沙金庚(主编)：世纪飞跃—辉煌的中国古生物学，纪念中国古生物学会成立80周年。科学出版社。(2009)，81-95。
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Jiang, S.-Y., Zhao, K.-D., Li, L., Ling, H.-F., Zhu, M.-Y., Highly metalliferous carbonaceous shale and Early Cambrian seawater: COMMENT and REPLY. Geology, 35 (2008), e158-e159. doi: 10.1130/G24437C.1
Zhu, M., Gehling, J. G., Xiao, S., Zhao, Y., Droser, M. L., Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia. Geology, 36 (2008), 867-870.
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蒋少涌，凌洪飞，赵葵动，朱茂炎，杨竟红，陈永权，华南寒武纪早期牛蹄塘组黑色岩系中Ni-Mo多金属硫化物矿层的Mo同位素组成讨论。岩石矿物学杂志，27(4) (2008),1-5。
钱逸，李国祥，朱茂炎，Steiner, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., 冯伟民，蒋志文，论中国早寒武世原牙形类和牙形状化石*——分类评述和地层意义。微体古生物学报，25 (4) (2008)，307-315.
杨爱华，朱茂炎，张俊明，皖南、浙西寒武系黄柏岭组和荷塘组的年代地层学研究。地层学杂志，32 (2008)，343-352。
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殷宗军，朱茂炎*，贵州埃迪卡拉纪瓮安生物群化石含量统计分析。古生物学报，47(4) (2008)，477-487。
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Zhu, M., Strauss, H., Shields, G. A., From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian Earth history in South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 1-6.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, A., Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) Chronostratigraphy of South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 7-61.
Steiner, M., Li, G., Qian, Y., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 67-99.
Vernhet, E., Heubeck, E. C., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang, J.-M., Stratigraphic reconstruction of the Ediacaran Yangtze platform margin (Hunan province, China) from margin-originated large-scale olistolith. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 123-139.
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Hu, S., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Luo, H., Chen, L., Weber, B., Diverse pelagic predators from the Chengjiang Lagerst?tte and the establishment of modern-style pelagic ecosystems in the early Cambrian. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 307-316.
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Vannier, J., Caron, J.-B., Yuan, J.-L., Briggs, D. E. G., Collins, D., Zhao, Y.-L., Zhu, M.-Y., Tuzoia: morphology and lifestyle of a large bivalved arthropod of the Cambrian seas. Journal of Paleontology, 81 (2007), 445-471.
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杨兴莲，朱茂炎，赵元龙，毛永琴，王宇轩，贵州剑河中寒武世中期甲劳组水母状化石的发现。古生物学报，46(2) (2007)，232-237。
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朱茂炎, 地球动物世界的诞生—评陈均远《动物世界的黎明》。科技导报，24(5) (2006)，89。
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Van Iten, H., Vyhlasova, Z., Zhu, M.-Y., Qian, Y., Widespread occurrence of microscopic pores in conulariids. Journal of Paleontology, 79(2) (2005), 193-200.
Wu, W., Yang, A.-H., Janussen, D., Steiner, M., Zhu, M.-Y., Hexactinellid sponges from the Early Cambrian black shale of South Anhui, China. Journal of Paleontology, 79(6) (2005), 1043-1051.
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杨爱华，朱茂炎，张俊明，扬子地台早寒武世古盘虫类的时空分布及其古地理环境控制。古地理学报，7 (2005)，219-232。
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Qian, Y., Li, G., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Steiner, M., Early Cambrian protoconodonts and conodont-like fossils of China: Taxonomic revisions and stratigraphic implication. Progress in Natural Science, 14 (2004), 173-180.
Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Van Iten, H., Li, C.-W., Lower Cambrian Sphenothallus Hall from southern Shaanxi, China. Geobios, 37 (2004), 229-237.
Steiner, M., Li, G., Qian, Y., Zhu, M., Lower Cambrian small shelly fossils of N. Sichuan and S. Shaanxi (China) and their biostratigraphic relevance. Geobios, 37 (2004), 259-275.
Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Li, G., Erdtmann, B.-D., New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China. Geology, 32(10) (2004), 833-836.
Erdtmann, B.-D., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Walde, D., The “arms race” of early metazoan life after the terminal Proterozoic global ice age. Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften, 32 (2004), 293-317.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Steiner, M., Yang, A., Li, G., Erdtmann, Bernd-D., Sinian and Early Cambrian stratigraphic frameworks from shallow- to deep-water facies of the Yangtze Platform: an integrated approach. Progress in Natural Science, 13(12) (2003), 951-960.
钱逸，李国祥，朱茂炎，尹恭正，新建乌什下寒武统肖尔布拉克组软舌螺化石。微体古生物学报，20 (2003), 342-349。
Zhao, Y., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Yang, X., Peng, J., The occurrence of the genus Marrella (Trilobitoidea) in Asia. Progress in Natural Science, 13 (2003), 708-711. 赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，杨兴莲，彭进，Marrella (马尔三叶形虫)在中国台江的发现。自然科学进展，12 (2002)，1216-1219。
Chen, A., Feng, H., Zhu, M., Ma, D., Li, M., A new Vetulicolian from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna in Yunnan of China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 77 (2003), 281-287.
Li, G., Zhu, M., Steiner, M., Microstructures and functional morphology of the Early Cambrian problematic fossil Rhombocorniculum. Progress in Natural Science, 13 (2003), 831-835。李国祥，朱茂炎，Michael Steiner,早寒武世疑难化石Rhombocorniculum的刺壁微细结构及形态功能分析。自然科学进展，13 (2003)，881-884。
Weber, B., Zhu, M., Arthropod trace fossils from the Zhujiaqing Formation (Meishucunian, Yunnan), and their palaeonbiological implications. Progress in Natural Science, 13(10) (2003), 795-800.
Yang, A., Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their stratigraphic implications. Progress in Natural Science, 13(11) (2003), 861-866.
Steiner, M., Li, G., Qian, Y., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Faunas from Zhejiang (China) and their biostratigraphical implications. Progress in Natural Science, 13(10) (2003), 852-860.
Zhu, M.-Y., Zhao, Y.-L., Chen, J.-Y., Revision of the Cambrian medusiform animals Stellostomites eumorphus Sun et Hou and Pararotadiscus guizhouensis (Zhao et Zhu) from South China. Geobios, 35 (2002), 165-185.
Qian, Y., Zhu, M.-Y., Li, G.-X., Jiang, Z.-W., Van Iten, H., A supplemental Precambrian-Cambrian boundary global stratotype section in SW China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 41(1) (2002), 19-26.
Van Iten, H., Zhu, M.-Y., Collins, D., First report of Sphenothallus Hall in the Middle Cambrian. Journal of Paleontology, 76 (2002), 902-905.
Janussen, D., Steiner, M., Zhu, M.-Y., New well-preserved scleritomes of Chancelloriidae from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang (China) and the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale (USA) lagerst?tten and its paleobiological implications. Journal of Paleontology, 76 (2002), 596-606.
Zhao, Y., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Yang, R., Guo, Q., Peng, J., Yang, X., Progress and significance in research on the early Middle Cambrian Kaili Biota, Guizhou Province, China. Progress in Natural Science, 12 (2002), 649-654. 赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，杨瑞东，郭庆军，彭进，杨兴莲，贵州台江中寒武世凯里生物群研究的新进展。自然科学进展，12 (2002)，685-690。
朱茂炎，生命演化和寒武纪大爆发。喻纬主编：最新科技进展报告。江苏教育出版社。(2002)，80-95.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., New C isotope stratigraphy from southwest China: Implications for the placement of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Yangtze Platform and global correlations: Comment. Geology, 29 (2001), 871-872.
Zhu, M.-Y., Li, G.-X., Zhang, J.-m., Steiner, M., Qian, Y., Jiang, Z.-w., Early Cambrian Stratigrapgy of East Yunnan, Southwestern China: A Synthesis. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 4-39.
Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang, J.-M., Li, G.-X., Sedimentary environments of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: Sedimentology of the Yu’anshan Formation in Chengjiang County, eastern Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 80-105.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Yang, A., Tai, T., Sinian-Cambrian Stratigraphy at Wuhe, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, China: Interval from the Neoproterozoic Tilite to the Upper Cambrian dolostone. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 182-188.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Qian, Y., Sinian-Cambrian Boundary Stratigraphy at Gezhongwu, Zhijing County, Guizhou Province, China: Phosphorite and Small Shelly Fossils. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 209-215.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., The Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: Quarries of nonmineralized fossils at Maotianshan and Ma’anshan, Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 219-225.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Steiner, M., Li, G., Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Stratigrpaphy at Meishucun, Yunnan province, China: Base of the Cambrian and the First Appearance of trilobites. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 226-235.
Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Hu, S., Wang, H., Li, G., The Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: New quarry and discoveries near Ercaicun, Haikou Town, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 236-238.
Zhao, Y., Yang, R., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Guo, Q., Yang, X., Tai, T., Cambrian Stratigraphy at Balang, Guizhou Province, China: Candidate Section for a Global Unnamed Series and Stratotype Section for the Taijiangian Stage. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 189-208.
Li, G.-X., Zhang, J.-M., Zhu, M.-Y., Litho- and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in the Xiaotan section, eastern Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 40-53.
Qian, Y., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., The Meishucunian Stage and its small shelly fossil sequences in China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 54-62.
Zhang, J.-M., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Yang, A.-H., Middle and Upper Cambrian slope deposits in the Wa’ergang section, Taoyuan County, northwestern Hunan Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 173-200.
Peng, S.-C., Lin, T.-R., Van Iten, H., Zhu, M.-Y., Lin, H.-L., Primitive ptychoparioids from southern Anhui Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 236-241.
Wang, H.-F., Zhang, J.-M., Hu, S.-X., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Wang, W., Luo, H.-L., Litho and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Yu’anshan Formation near the Village Ercaicun, Haikou County, eastern Yunnan Province, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 106-114.
Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Discrete sclerites of Microdictyon (Lower Cambrian) from the Fucheng section, Nanzheng, south Shaanxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 227-235.
Yuan, K.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang, J.-M., Van Iten, H., Biostratigraphy of archaeocyathans horizons in the Lower Cambrian Fucheng section: Implications for regional correlations and archaeocyathan evolution. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 115-129.
Steiner, M., Zhu, M.-Y., Weber, B., Geyer, G., The Lower Cambrian in eastern Yunnan: trilobite-based biostratigraphy and related faunas. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 63-79.
Zhu, M.-Y., Van Iten, H., Cox, R., Zhao, Y.-L., Erdtmann, Bernd-D., Occurrence of Byronia MATTHEW and Sphenothallus HALL in the Lower Cambrian of China. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 74(3) (2000), 227-238.
朱茂炎，李学森，吉林南部浑江地区早陶世亮家山组中的大型短粗壳内角石类。古生物学报，39(3) (2000)，369-380。
朱茂炎，从海口虫的发现谈脊椎动物的起源。徐均涛主编：中学生探索学习丛书——进化长河，江苏科学技术出版社。(2000)，39-44。
朱茂炎，轰动全球的澄江生物群。徐均涛主编：中学生探索学习丛书——进化长河，江苏科学技术出版社。(2000)，31-38。
Van Iten, H., Zhu, Z.-K., Zhu, M.-Y., Anatomy and systematics of the Devonian conulariids Changshaconus Zhu, 1985 and Rectoconularia Babcock et Feldmann, 1986. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 39(4) (2000), 466-475.
钱逸, 朱茂炎, 蒋志文，扬子地台早古生代软舌螺化石记述。微体古生物学报，17(4) (2000)，353-361。
钱逸, 朱茂炎, 李国祥, 陈孟莪， 再论织金壳类(Zhijinitids)的亲缘关系。微体古生物学报，17(3) (2000)，307-316。
朱茂炎，钱 逸，蒋志文，何廷贵，茅永强， 小壳化石保存、壳壁成分和显微构造。钱 逸主编，《中国寒武纪小壳化石和地层学》，第三章，(1999)，60-72。科学出版社。
朱茂炎，Erdtmann, B. D., 赵元龙, 贵州中寒武世凯里化石库的埋藏学和生态学初步研究。古生物学报, 38(增刊) (1999)，28-57。
赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，郭庆军，周 震，杨瑞东, Van Iten, H.， 贵州台江早寒武世台江生物群。古生物学报，38(增刊) (1999)，108-117。
赵元龙，朱茂炎, 郭庆军，Van Iten, H., 贵州台江中寒武世凯里生物群中的蠕形动物化石。古生物学报，38(增刊) (1999)，79-87。
赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，杨瑞东，郭庆军，钱 逸，黄友庄，潘 玉，贵州中寒武世早期凯里生物群研究的新进展。古生物学报，38(增刊) (1999)，1-14。
赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，黄友庄，郭庆军，杨瑞东，周震，贵州台江早寒武世台江动物群的发现及意义。贵州工业大学学报，27(5)(1998)，23-26。
钱逸，H. V. 伊顿，R. S. 柯克斯，朱茂炎，卓二军，记述原始锥石类中的一个新属种Emeiconularia trigemme gen. et sp. nov.。微体古生物学报，14 (1997)，475-488。
Zhu, M., Precambrian-Cambrian Trace Fossils from Eastern Yunnan: Implications for Cambrian Explosion. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10 (1997), 275-312.
Dzik, J., Zhao, Y.-L., & Zhu, M.-Y., Mode of life of the Middle Cambrian eldonioid lophophorate Rotadiscus. Palaeontology, 40(2) (1997), 385-396.
Zhang, J., Li, G., Zhou, C., Zhu, M., Yu, Z., Carbon Isotope Profiles and Their Correlation across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Boundary Interval on the Yangtze Platform, China. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10 (1997), 107-116.
Zhang, J., Yu, Z., Zhu, M., Zhou, C., Li, G., Metabentonites from Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Eastern Yunnan, China and their implications. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10 (1997), 161-173.
钱 逸，朱茂炎，何延贵，蒋志文，再论滇东地区前寒武系与寒武系界线剖面。微体古生物学报，13(3) (1996)，225-240。
朱茂炎，钱逸，蒋志文，何延贵，小壳化石的保存、壳壁成份和微细构造初探。微体古生物学报，13(3) (1996)，241-254。
朱茂炎，李学森，吉林南部早奥陶世珠角石类。古生物学报，35(3) (1996)，349-365。
Chen, J.-Y., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhou, G.-Q., The Early Cambrian medusiform metazoan Eldonia from the Chenjiang Lagerst?tte. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 40(3) (1995), 213-244.
赵元龙，朱茂炎，贵州台江凯里动物群中的水母状化石。古生物学报，33(3) (1994)，272-280。
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