Personal information: Associate researcher
Supervisor of Master's Candidates

Gender : Female

Date of Birth : 1991-09-08

Alma Mater : China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

Education Level : Faculty of Higher Institutions

Degree : Doctoral Degree in Science

Status : Employed

School/Department : State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology

Date of Employment : 2018-08-30

Discipline : Paleontology and Stratigraphy

Email : yifanxiao@cug.edu.cn

Education background:

2013.9-2018.6 Doctoral Degree in Science, Paleontology and stratigraphy, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

2009.9-2013.6 Bachelor Degree in Science, Geology (Talent base class), China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

Research focus:

1. Radiolarian taxonomy, mainly Paleozoic radiolarians

2. Radiolarian evolution

3. Radiolarian biostratigraphy

4. Radiolarian ecology

5. Radiolarian paleogeography

6. Computational paleontology

Paper Publications:

[1] Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Ito, Weihong He. New Permian radiolarians from east Asia and the quantitative reconstruction of their evolutionary and ecological significances. Scientific Reports, 2021: 11.6831.

[2] Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, Weihong He, Michael J. Benton, Tinglu Yang, Chenyang Cai. Verifiability of genus-level classification under quantification and parsimony theories: a case study of follicucullid radiolarians. Paleobiology, 2020, 46: 337–355.

[3] Yifan Xiao, Kui Wu, Li Tian, Michael J. Benton, Yong Du, Hao Yang, Jinnan Tong. Framboidal pyrite evidence for persistent low oxygen levels in shallow-marine facies of the Nanpanjiang Basin during the Permian-Triassic transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018, 511: 243–255.

[4] Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, Weihong He. Low-latitudinal standard Permian radiolarian biostratigraphy for multiple purposes with Unitary Association, Graphic Correlation, and Bayesian inference methods. Earth-Science Reviews, 2018, 179 : 168–206.

[5] Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, Weihong He. Water depths of the latest Permian (Changhsingian) radiolarians estimated from correspondence analysis. Earth-Science Reviews, 2017, 173: 141–158.

[6] Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, Weihong He. Applications and limitations of micro-XCT imaging in the studies of Permian radiolarians: A new genus with bi-polar main spines. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017, 62: 647–656.

Research projects:

The rise and fall of marine organisms and volcanism at the Permian-Triassic transition in South China, National Natural Science Foundation-2025/12/31, participant

Evolution of radiolarians at the Middle-Late Permian transition in South China: faunal composition, extinction pattern and size variation, National Natural Science Foundation, 2022/12/31, host