Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Faculty and Staff
LIU Jun
LIU Jun

Title: Professor

Fax: 010-68337001

E-mail: liujun@ivpp.ac.cn

Education and Appointments

2002-2007          Ph.D, Department of Earth and Environment Sciences, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. (Advisor: Paul Olsen)

1995-1998          M.Sc. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. (Advisor: LI Jinling)

1991-1995          B.Sc., Department of Earth Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.


10/2015 to present          Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

3/2009 to present             Research Professor, IVPP

1/2008-3/2009                    Research Associate Professor, IVPP

9/2002-6/2007                    Faculty Fellow, Columbia University.

1998-2002                             Research fellow, IVPP

Research Interests

Research on early tetrapods: their morphology, phylogeny, function, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography, emphasis on Permian and Triassic in time, non-mammaliaform therapsids and marine reptiles in taxonomic groups.

Public Services
Honors
Selected Publications

李锦玲, & 刘俊. (2015). 基干下孔类 (Vol. 3). 北京: 科学出版社.

Liu, J., & Rieppel, O. (2005). Restudy of Anshunsaurus huangguoshuensis (Reptilia: Thalattosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China. American Museum Novitates, 3488, 1–34.

Liu, J., Rubidge, B., & Li, J. (2009). New basal synapsid supports Laurasian origin for therapsids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54(3), 393–400. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0071

Liu, J., & Olsen, P. E. (2010). The phylogenetic relationships of Eucynodontia (Amniota: Synapsida). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 17(3), 151–176.

Liu, J., Rubidge, B., & Li, J. (2010). A new specimen of Biseridens qilianicus indicates its phylogenetic position as the most basal anomodont. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 285–292. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0883

Liu, J. (2013). Osteology, ontogeny and phylogenetic position of Sinophoneus yumenensis (Therapsida, Dinocephalia) from Dashankou Fauna, middle Permian of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(6), 1394–1407.

Liu, J., Zhao, L.-J., Li, C., & He, T. (2013). Osteology of Concavispina biseridens (Reptilia, Thalattosauria) from the Xiaowa Formation (Carnian), Guanling, Guizhou, China Journal of Palaeontology, 87(2), 341–350.

Liu, J., & Abdala, F. (2014). The phylogeny and taxonomy of Traversodontidae. In C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk, & J. Fröbisch (Eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida (pp. 255–279). New York: Springer.

Liu, J., Ramezani, J., Li, L., Shang, Q.-H., Xu, G.-H., Wang, Y.-Y., & Yang, J.-S. (2018). High-precision temporal calibration of Middle Triassic vertebrate biostratigraphy: U-Pb zircon constraints for the Sinokannemeyeria Fauna and Yonghesuchus. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 56(1), 16–24. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.170808

Liu, J., Yi, J., & Chen, J. (2020). Constraining assembly time of some blocks on eastern margin of Pangea using Permo-Triassic non-marine tetrapod records. Earth Science Reviews, 207, 103215. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103215

Liu, J., Angielczyk, K. D., & Abdala, F. (2021). Permo-Triassic tetrapods and their climate implications. Global and Planetary Change, 205, 103618. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103618

Liu, J. (2022). On kannemeyeriiform dicynodonts from the Shaanbeikannemeyeria Assemblage Zone of the Ordos Basin, China. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 60(3), 212–248.

Liu, J., & Abdala, F. (2022). The emblematic South African therocephalian Euchambersia in China: a new link in the dispersal of late Permian vertebrates across Pangea. Biology Letters, 18(7), 20220222. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2022.0222

Liu, J., Abdala, F., Angielczyk, K. D., & Sidor, C. A. (2022). Tetrapod turnover during the Permo-Triassic transition explained by temperature change. Earth-Science Reviews, 224, 103886. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103886

Chen, J., & Liu, J. (2024). Journey to the east: the oldest tetrapod fauna of east Pangea in early Permian. National Science Review, 11(10). doi:10.1093/nsr/nwae249

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