Introduction
Hello, I’m Tinglu Yang — welcome to my little corner of the internet!
In the past few years, I worked tirelessly (and joyfully) toward becoming a paleontologist while studying at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). That journey eventually led me to my current role as a full-time lecturer at East China University of Technology, where I now get to share my enthusiasm for ancient life with students who may or may not have expected so many bivalves in their curriculum.
My research interests revolve around the taxonomy and community structure of bivalves during the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction interval (~250 Ma). Yes, I spend a lot of time thinking about clams that lived before dinosaurs.
I’m fortunate to work with an amazing and inspiring team of colleagues who make science feel like both an adventure and a privilege.
For more details about my work, feel free to scroll on — the fossils are waiting!
Awards
- 2019: Second Prize of Land and Resources Science and Technology Award of China (国土资源科学技术奖二等奖)
- 2019: First Prize of the 2nd National University Young Teacher Geology Teaching Competition (第二届全国大学青年教师地质课程教学比赛一等奖)
- 2019: First Prize of the ECUT Young Teacher Teaching Competition (东华理工大学2019年度青年教师教学竞赛一等奖)
Conferences
- 2018: Chinese Palaeontological Society 26th Annual Meeting, Zhengzhou, P. R. CHINA** (Oral presentation with an e-poster)
- 2015: 7th International Brachiopod Congress, Nanjing, P. R. CHINA
- 2014: 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, ARGENTINA**
- 2013: World Summit on P-Tr Mass Extinction & Extreme Climate Change, Wuhan, P. R. CHINA**
- 2011: Chinese Palaeontological Society 26th Annual Meeting, Guanling, P. R. CHINA*
- 2009: Chinese Palaeontological Society 25th Annual Meeting, Nanjing, P. R. CHINA
* - Abstract submission as first author; additional * - Poster/oral presentation
Scientific Papers And Books 
- Tinglu Yang, Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Jingqi Liu, Anfeng Chen, 2025. Quantitative insights into the community shifts of bivalves following the end-Permian mass extinction: New evidences from Guizhou, southwestern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 677, 113208. DOI.
- Youyou Wu, Yue Wu, Weihong He, Kexin Zhang, Chen Wu, Yifan Xiao, Tinglu Yang, Yafei Huang, Jiang Ke. Influence on marine ecosystem exerted by the subduction of Paleotethyan Ocean around South China during the formation of Pangea supercontinent at the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition. Earth Science Frontiers, 2025, 24(Online)
- Yifan Xiao, Kaiyue Wang, Weihong He, Noritoshi Suzuki, Tinglu Yang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Michael J. Benton, Haijun Song, 2025. No consistent size responses in radiolarians to the climatic changes and mass extinctions during the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition. Current Biology, In Press, DOI.
- Xu Zhang, Bowen Song, Tinglu Yang, Yafei Hou, Yibo Yang, Keke Ai, Jiaxuan Wang & Kexin Zhang. Source-to-Sink Relationships between the Qaidam Basin and Its Surrounding Mountain Ranges: New Insights from Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages in Modern River Sediments. J. Earth Sci. 36, 930–946 (2025). DOI
- He Weihong, Wu Youyou, Zhang Kexin, Suzuki Noritoshi, Xiao Yifan, Yang Tinglu, Wu Chen, Huang Yafei, 2025. Gradual Collapse of Global Marine Ecosystem in the Late Permian and Its Link to the Anoxia. Earth Science, 50(3): 983-999. DOI (In Chinese with English abstract)
- Xue Ke, Fang Han, Xudong Bai, Tinglu Yang, Taizhong Song, Zongyan Zhang, Wenjun Yang, Jinming Zhang, Bowen Song. Late Pleistocene palynological records from the Qaidam Basin (North Tibet) and their implications for Qarhan Lake evolution. 2025. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 278, 106418. Link.
- Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Kexin Zhang, N. Suzuki, Han Wang, Fangfang Yang, Yifan Xiao , Tinglu Yang, Yafei Huang, Chen Wu, Ke Jiang. The deterioration and collapse of late Permian marine ecosystems and the end-Permian mass extinction: A global view. 2025. Earth-Science Reviews. DOI.
- Weihong He, Elizabeth A. Weldon, Tinglu Yang, Han Wang, Yifan Xiao, Kexin Zhang, Xingfang Peng, Qinglai Feng. An end-Permian two-stage extinction pattern in the deep-water Dongpan Section, and its relationship to the migration and vertical expansion of the oxygen minimum zone in the South China Basin. 2024. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 649, 112307. DOI.
- Yifan Xiao, Kaiyue Wang, Weihong He, Noritoshi Suzuki, KeXin Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Shunbao Wu, Changhsingian (Lopingian, Permian) radiolarian paleobiogeography on and around the Yangtze Platform, 2024, Palaeoworld, DOI.
- Jingqi Liu, Yang Zhang, Xiaoying Shi, Anfeng Chen, Dongjie Tang, Tinglu Yang. Macroscopic fossils from the Chuanlinggou Formation of North China: evidence for an earlier origin of multicellular algae in the late Palaeoproterozoic, 2023, Palaeontology, 66: e12685. DOI.
- Bowen Song, Kexin Zhang, Yi Wei, Gaolei Jiang, Tinglu Yang, Thomas J. Algeo, Jiaxuan Wang, Fang Han. Paleogene sediment provenance in the Gaize Basin: Implications for early Cenozoic paleogeography of central Tibet. 2023. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 632, 111860. DOI.
- Weihong He, G. R. Shi, Jianxin Yu, Daoliang Chu, Kexin Zhang, Haishui Jiang, Tinglu Yang, Yifan Xiao. Stratigraphy Around the Permian–Triassic Boundary of South China, 2023. Springer Singapore. ISBN:978-981-99-9350-5. Link.
- Han Wang, Weihong He, Yifan Xiao, Tinglu Yang, Kexin Zhang, Huiting Wu, Yafei Huang, Xingfang Peng, Shunbao Wu. Stagewise collapse of biotic communities and its relations to oxygen depletion along the north margin of Nanpanjiang Basin during the Permian–Triassic transition, 2023, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 621, 111569.
- G. R. Shi, Ian Metcalfe, Sangmin Lee, Daoliang Chu, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang & Yuri D. Zakharov. Marine invertebrate fossils from the Permian–Triassic boundary beds of two core sections in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, 2023, Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 46(2): 156-173 DOI.
- Bowen Song, Fei Hu, Yu Liang, Kexin Zhang, Junliang Ji, Thomas J. Algeo, James C. Hower, Tinglu Yang, Xu Zhang, Middle to Late Miocene tectonic forcing of intensified humidity in the Xunhua Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 604, 111190. Link
- Qiling Liu, Tinglu Yang, Long Cheng, Michael J. Benton, Benjamin C. Moon, Chunbo Yan, Zhihui An, and Li Tian, 2021, "An injured pachypleurosaur (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota indicating predation pressure in the Mesozoic." Scientific reports 11, 21818 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01309-z.
- Bowen Song, Kexin Zhang, Fang Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Keke Ai, Yadong Xu, Tinglu Yang, Reconstruction of the latest Eocene-early Oligocene paleoenvironment in the Hoh Xil Basin (Central Tibet) based on palynological and ostracod records. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2021, 217:104860.
- Fang Han, Tinglu Yang, Kexin Zhang, Yafei Hou, Bowen Song, Early Oligocene Podocarpium (Leguminosae) from Qaidam Basin and its paleoecological and biogeographical implications, 2020, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 282:104309.
- Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, Weihong He, Michael J. Benton, Tinglu Yang, and Chenyang Cai, 2020. Verifiability of genus-level classification under quantification and parsimony theories: a case study of follicucullid radiolarians. Paleobiology 46(3): 337-355.
- Changwei Wang, Kexin Zhang, Weihong He, Zhongqin Yang, Tinglu Yang, Congliang Hu, Yang Zhang, Yi Deng, Zhisong Yu, Zircon U-Pb Age of Yuba Rare Earth-bearing Rock Series in Weining, Guizhou, Guizhou Geology, 2020, 37(1): 14-23 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
- Weihong He, G. R. Shi, Kexin Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Shuzhong Shen, Yang Zhang, Brachiopods around the Permian-Triassic Boundary of South China, 2019, Online ISBN 978-981-13-1041-6. (Book Detail Link).
- Weihong He, Elizabeth A. Weldon, Tinglu Yang, Han Wang, Yifan Xiao, Huiting Wu, Kexin Zhang, Yongbiao Wang, Shunbao Wu, The palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographical significance of the Late Permian deep-water brachiopod fauna from Dongpan, South China, including descriptions of Micromartinia He & Weldon gen. nov.(Micromartiniidae He & Weldon fam. nov.) and Minutomarginifera nom. nov.. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2019, 1-25.
- Bowen Song, Kexin Zhang, Yafei Hou, Junliang Ji, Jiaxuan Wang, Yibo Yang, Tinglu Yang, Chaowen Wang, Tianyi Shen, New insights into the provenance of Cenozoic strata in the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibet: Constraints from combined U-Pb dating of detrital zircons in recent and ancient fluvial sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 533:109254.
- Huiting Wu, Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Kexin Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Yang Zhang, Yifan Xiao, Bing Chen & Shunbao Wu, A new Permian–Triassic boundary brachiopod fauna from the Xinmin section, southwestern Guizhou, south China and its extinction patterns, Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 2018, 42:3, 339-372
- Yang Jiang, Huiting Wu, Yifan Xiao, Tinglu Yang, Weihong He, Han Wang, Xi Sun, Shunbao Wu, Ammonoid Zonations of Permian-Triassic Boundary Strata from Kejiao Section, Huishui County, Southern Guizhou Province, South China and Regional Correlation. Geological Science of Technology Information, 2018, 37(6): 65-73. (In Chinese with English abstract)
- Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Yifan Xiao, Kexin Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Bing Chen, Mingliang Yue, JunShen, Yongbiao Wang, Hao Yang, Shunbao Wu, Body-size changes of latest Permian brachiopods in varied palaeogeographic settings in South China and implications for controls on animal miniaturization in a highly stressed marine ecosystem. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2017, 486: 33-45.
- Yang Zhang, G.R. Shi, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang, Weihong He; Aihua Yuan, Yong Lei, Community replacement, ecological shift and early warning signals prior to the end-Permian mass extinction: A case study from a nearshore clastic-shelf section in South China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2017, 487(1): 118-135
- Han Wang, Yang Jiang, Tinglu Yang, Yifan Xiao, Shunbao Wu, Weihong He, End-Permian Biotic Assemblage of Kejiao, Southern Guizhou and its geological implications. Geological Science of Technology Information, 2017, 36(6): 168-173. ( In Chinese with English abstract)
- Tinglu Yang, Weihong He, Kexin Zhang, Shunbao Wu, Yang Zhang, Huiting Wu, Yifan Xiao. Palaeoecological insights into the Changhsingian–Induan (latest Permian–earliest Triassic) bivalve fauna at Dongpan, southern Guangxi, South China. Alcheringa, 2016, 40(1): 98-117.
- Huiting Wu, Weihong He, Yang Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Yifan Xiao, Bing Chen, Elizabeth A. Weldon, Palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns and processes of Neochonetes and Fusichonetes (Brachiopoda) in the late Palaeozoic and earliest Mesozoic. Paleoworld, 2016 25(4): 508-518.
- Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Tinglu Yang, Kexin Zhang, Mingliang Yue, Yifan Xiao, Huiting Wu, Bing Chen, Shunbao Wu. Patterns of brachiopod faunal and body-size changes across the Permian-Triassic boundary: evidence from the Daoduishan section in Meishan area, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2016, 448: 72-84.
- Weihong He, Kexin Zhang, Zhongqiang Chen, Jiaxin Yan, Tinglu Yang, Yang Zhang, Songzhu Gu, Shunbao Wu. A new genus Liaous of early Anisian Stage (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from southwestern China: systematics, reassessment of classification of the Spiriferinioidea, community paleoecology, and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of Paleontology, 2015, 89(6): 966-979.
- Yang Zhang, G.R. Shi, Weihong He, Huiting Wu, Yong Lei, Kexin Zhang, Chengchen Du, Tinglu Yang, Mingliang Yue, Yifan Xiao. Significant pre-mass extinction animal body-size changes: evidences from the Permian-Triassic boundary brachiopod faunas of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2016, 448: 85-95.
- Bin Chen, Tinglu Yang, Huiting Wu, Bing Chen. Discovery of cool-water marine invertebrates of the end-Permian from Youjiang Basin, South China and the geological significance. Geological Science of Technology Information, 2015, 34(6): 86-91.
- Li Tian, David Bottjer, Jinnan Tong, Fei Li, Tinglu Yang, Haijun Song, Huyue Song, Lei liang. Distribution and Size Variation of Ooids in the Aftermath of the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction. Palaios, 2015, 30(9): 714-727.
- Weihong He, Kexin Zhang, Shunbao Wu, Qinglai Feng, Tinglu Yang, Mingliang Yue, Yifan Xiao, Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Guangdong Wang, Bing Chen. End-Permian Faunas from Yangtze Basin and Its Marginal Region: Implications for Palaeogeographical and Tectonic Environments. Earth Science - Journal of China University of Geosciences, 2015, 40(2): 275-289. (In Chinese with English abstract)
- Weihong He, G.R. Shi, R.J. Twitchett, Yang Zhang, Kexin Zhang, Huyue Song, Mingliang Yue, Shunbao Wu, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang, Yifan Xiao. Late Permian marine ecosystem collapse began in deeper waters: evidence from brachiopod diversity and body size changes. Geobiology, 2015, 13:123–138.
- Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Yang Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Kexin Zhang, Shunbao Wu, Zhijun Niu, Zongyan Zhang. Changhsingian (latest Permian) deep-water brachiopod fauna from South China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2014, 12(8): 907-960.
- Yang Zhang, Kexin Zhang, G.R. Shi, Weihong He, Dongxun Yuan, Mingliang Yue, Tinglu Yang. Restudy of conodont biostratigraphy of the Permian-Triassic boundary section in Zhongzhai, southwestern Guizhou Province, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2014, 80:75-83.
- Huiting Wu, Fei Hu, Weihong He, Tinglu Yang, Shengye Li, Fei Teng, Mingliang Yue. Examination of Neochonetes and Tethyochonetes (Brachiopoda) and their comparision. Geological Science and Technology Information, 2013, 32(2): 35-40. (In Chinese)
- Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Yang Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Fei Teng, Shunbao Wu. Systematics and palaeoecology of Changhsingian (Late Permian) Ambocoeloodae brachiopods from South China and implications for the end-Permian mass extinction. Alcheringa, 2012, 36: 515-530.
- Zongyan Zhang, Weihong He, Yang Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Shunbao Wu. Late Permian-Earliest Triassic ammonoid sequences from the Rencunping section, Sangzhi county, Hunan Province, South China and their regional correlation. Geological Science of Technology Information, 2009, 28(1): 23-30. (In Chinese with English abstract)
Education and Work Experience
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
2006.9-2010.6: Bachelor of Science degree in Geology.
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
2010.9-2015.12: Phd candidate on Paleontology
East China University of Technology
2016.3-NOW: Lecturer
Skills
Scientific skills
Proficiency in common office software, i.e., Microsoft Office, Photoshop and Coreldraw. Other software are frequently involved for scientific purposes. Examples are listed as below.
- PAST: Palaeontological statistics and analyses
- R: Mathematics software which can be used in palaeontological analyses
- PAUP: Phylogenetics and cladistics
Others
My interests also include Web designing, 3D modeling as well as video editing and post-production.
- PostgreSQL/MySQL: Database System
- Python/PHP/HTML/CSS: Programming languages
- Linux: Open-source server system
- Blender/Maya: 3D modeling
- Audition: Audio editing software
- Finalcut Pro X/After Effect/Premiere: Video editing software (enjoy my videos on Bilibili)
My Pages
- Paleontology and Historical Geology - Teaching Materials
- Latin Language Pronunciation Tutorials (in Chinese)
- My Video Channel on Bilibili
Contact
For other international visitors who hold interest on my work or my personal charm (:p), feel free to contact me.
You can directly send me an Email:
- yang@geology.hk
Also, if you are from U.S., you can leave me a voice or text message via my Google Voice N.O.(+1 360-365-1068)