Selected Publications of WANG Yuan
* denotes SCI journals;
2021
1. *Rong Y F, Vasilyan D, Dong L P, Wang Y, 2020,2021. Revision of Chunerpeton tianyiense (Lissamphibia, Caudata): Is it a cryptobranchid salamander? Palaeoworld, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.12.001. (16pp) [PDF]
2. *Li L, Zhang J L, Wang X L, Wang Y, Tong H Y, 2021. First turtle remains from the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota, NE China. Science Technology and Engineering Journal, 7(1): 1~11. [PDF]
2. *Li L, Zhang J L, Wang X L, Wang Y, Tong H Y, 2021. First turtle remains from the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota, NE China. Science Technology and Engineering Journal, 7(1): 1~11. [PDF]
2020
1. *Dong L P, Matsumoto R, Kusuhashi N, Wang Y Q, Wang Y, Evans S E, 2020. A new choristodere (Reptilia, Choristodera) from an Aptian–Albian coal deposit in China. Journal of Systematic Paleontology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2020.1749147. 20pp. [pdf]
2. *Rong Y F, Vasilyan D, Dong L P, Wang Y (in press). Revision of Chunerpeton tianyiense (Lissamphibia, Caudata): is it a cryptobranchid salamander? Palaeoworld.
3. Xu X, Zhou Z, Wang Y, Wang M. 2020. Study on the Jehol Biota: Recent advances and future prospects. Science China: Earth Sciences, 63:757~773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9509-3. [PDF]
2019
4. Wang Y, Wu F X, Jin H Y, Ge X, Yang J, 2019. 90 Fossils Attest to 90 Years of Glory. Beijing: Popular Science Press. 245pp. [in Chinese] [pdf]
5. *Matsumoto R, Dong L P, Wang Y, Evans S E, 2019. The first record of a nearly complete choristodere (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Jurassic of Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(12): 1031~1048, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1494220.
6. *Dong L P, Wang Y, Mou L J, Zhang G Z, Evans S E, 2019. A new Jurassic lizard from China. in Steyer J.-S., Augé M. L. & Métais G. (eds), Memorial Jean-Claude Rage: A life of paleo-herpetologist. Geodiversitas 41 (16): 623~641. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a16.
2018
7. Wang Y, Ge X, Xing L D, Xie D, Ma N, 2018. Listening to the Stories of Fossils. Beijing: Popular Science Press. 271pp. [in Chinese] [pdf]
8. *Dong L P, Xu X, Wang Y, Evans S E, 2018. The Lizard Genera Bainguis and Parmeosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of China and Mongolia. Cretaceous Research 85, 95~108. [PDF]
2017
9. *Dong L P, Wang Y, Evans S E, 2017. A new lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China, with a taxonomic revision of Yabeinosaurus, Cretaceous Research, 72: 161~171. (doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.017, published on-line in 2016). [PDF]
10. Sullivan C, Wang Y, Choo B, 2017. From Fish to Human: the March of Vertebrate Life in China. Beijing: Popular Science Press. 307pp. [Collector’s edition in Chinese] [pdf]
11. Xu X, Zhou Z H, Sullivan C, and Wang Y, 2017. The Yanliao Biota: a trove of exceptionally preserved Middle-Late Jurassic terrestrial life forms. In: Fraser N C and Sues H-D (eds). Terrestrial Conservation Lagerst？tten: Windows into the Evolution of Life on Land. Edinburgh & London: Dunedin Academic Press. 131~167.
12. Zhou Z H, Wang Y, Xu X, Ren D, 2017. The Jehol Biota: an exceptional window into the Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem. In: Fraser N C and Sues H-D (eds). Terrestrial Conservation Lagerst？tten: Windows into the Evolution of Life on Land. Edinburgh & London: Dunedin Academic Press. 169~214.
13. *Zhou Z H, Wang Y, 2017. Vertebrate assemblages of the Jurassic Yanliao Biota and the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota: Comparisons and implications. Palaeoworld, 26(2): 241~252 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2017.01.002) [PDF]
14. *Wang Y, Ro？ek Z, Dong L P, 2017. A new pelobatoid frog from the lower Eocene of southern China. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (DOI: 10.1007/s12549-017-0304-1). 18pp. [PDF]
2016
15. Han F L, Wang Y, Sullivan C, Wang Y Q, Qin Z C, Xu X, 2016. Chapter 7: The Vertebrates. In: Huang D Y (ed.), The Daohugou Biota. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publisher. 218~251 [in Chinese]. [pdf]
16. *Wang Y, Dong L P, Evans S E, 2016. Polydactyly and other limb abnormalities in the Jurassic salamander Chunerpeton from China. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment (2016) 96:49~59 (DOI 10.1007/s12549-015-0219-7, published on line in 2015). [PDF]
17. Dong L P, Evans S E, Wang Y, 2016. Taxonomic revision of lizards from the Paleocene deposits of the Qianshan Basin, Anhui, China. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 54(3): 243~268. [PDF]
18. *Xu X, Zhou Z H, Sullivan C, Wang Y, Ren D, 2016. An Updated Review of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota: Chronology, Taphonomy, Paleontology, and Paleoecology. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 90 (6): 2229~2243. [PDF]
2015
19. Wang Y et al., 2015. Amphibians (Fascicle 1, Serial no. 5). In: Editorial Committee of Palaeovertebrata Sinica (ed.): Palaeovertebrata Sinica (Volume II: Amphibians, Reptiles and Avians). Science Press. 143pp. [in Chinese]
20. Sullivan C, Wang Y, Choo B, 2015. From Fish to Human: the March of Vertebrate Life in China. Beijing: Popular Science Press. 546pp. [in English and Chinese]
2014
21. *Sullivan C, Wang Y, Hone D W E, Wang Y Q, Xu X, Zhang F C, 2014. The Vertebrates of the Jurassic Daohugou Biota of Northeastern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34(1):1~37. [PDF]
2013
22. Zhou Z H (ed.), Wang X D, Wang Y (co-eds.), 2013. 100,000 Whys (Palaeontology). Shanghai, Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House. 201pp. [in Chinese]
23. Wang Y, 2013. The stories behind two status. In: Wang Q, 2013. From Crystal Palace to the Darwin Centre: An Architectural Evolution of the Natural Histroy Museum in London. Beijing: China Architecture Industry Press. 108~114. [in Chinese] [pdf]
24. *Dong L, Ro？ek Z, Wang Y, Jones M E H, 2013. Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group of Western Liaoning, China. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069723. [PDF]
2012
25. *Rocek Z, Wang Y, Dong L, 2012. Post-metamorphic development of Early Cretaceous frogs as a tool for taxonomic comparisons. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32(6): 1285~1292. [PDF]
26. *Evans S, Wang Y, 2012. New material of the Early Cretaceous lizard Yabeinosaurus from China. Cretaceous Research, 34: 48~60 (doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.10.004: published on line in 2011). [PDF]
27. Dong L P, Huang D Y, Wang Y, 2012. Two Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents from Inner Mongolia, China. Chinese Sci Bull, 57, doi:10.1007/s11434-011-4729-z. [PDF]
2011
28. *Rocek Z, Dong L, P？ikryl T, Sun C, Tan J, Wang Y, 2011. Fossil frogs (Anura) from Shanwang (Middle Miocene; Shandong Province, China). Geobios, 44(5): 499~518 (doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2010.11.009) [PDF]
29. *Wang Y, Evans S E, 2011. A gravid lizard from the Cretaceous of China and the early history of squamate viviparity. Naturwissenschaften, 98(9): 739~743. (DOI:10.1007/s00114-011-0820-1) [PDF]
2010
30. Zhou Z H, Jin F, Wang Y, 2010. Vertebrate assemblages from the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota in Northeast China. Earth Science Frontiers, 17(special issue): 252~254. [pdf]
31. *Zhou Z H, Wang Y, 2010. Major features of the vertebrate diversity of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and their paleoecological implications. Journal of Earth Science, 21(special issue): 228~230. [pdf]
32. Wang Y, Dong L P, Evans S E, 2010. Jurassic-Cretaceous herpetofaunas from the Jehol associated strata in NE China: evolutionary and ecological implications. Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 24(2): 76~79. [PDF]
33. *Evans S E, Wang Y, 2010. A new lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) with exquisite preservation of soft tissue from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8(1): 81~95. [PDF]
34. *Zhou Z H, Wang Y, 2010. Vertebrate diversity of the Jehol Biota as compared with other Lagerst？tten. Science China (Earth Sciences), 53(12): 1894~1907. [PDF]
35. Zhou Z H, Wang Y Q, Zhu M, Wang Y, Xu X, Li C, Wang X L., Deng T, 2010. Report on Advances in Veretebrate Paleontology. In: China Association for Science and Technology (ed.), Palaeontological Society of China (compiled), 2009-2010 Report on Advances in Palaeontology. Beijing: China Science and Technology Press. 198~200.
2009
36. Wang Y, 2009. Amphibians. In: The Authorizing Committee for Chinese Terms in Paleontology, Chinese Terms in Paleontology (2nd edition). Beijing: Science Press. 82~85.
37. Evans S E, Wang Y, 2009. A long-limbed lizard from the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous of Daohugou, Ningcheng, Nei Mongol, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 47(1): 21~34.
38. Wang Y, Dong L P, 2009. The evolution of archaic amphibians from China: A long and winding history. In: Sha J G (ed.): A Great Leap in a Century: the Glory of Chinese Palaeontology. Beijing: China Science Press. 238~258. [in Chinese] [pdf]
2008
39. Wang Y, Zhang G L, Sun A L, 2008. Amphibia. In: Li J L, Wu X C, Zhang F C (eds), The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin. Beijing: Science Press. 3~25.
40. Wang Y, Li J L, 2008. Squamata. In: Li J L, Wu X C, Zhang F C (eds), The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin. Beijing: Science Press. 115~137.
41. *Zhang G L, Wang Y, Jones M E H, Evans S E, 2008. A new Early Cretaceous salamander (Regalerpeton weichangensis gen. et sp. nov.) from the Huajiying Formation of northeastern China. Cretaceous Research, doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.10.004. [PDF] /*Zhang G L, Wang Y, Jones M E H, Evans S E, 2009. A new Early Cretaceous salamander (Regalerpeton weichangensis gen. et sp. nov.) from the Huajiying Formation of northeastern China. Cretaceous Research, 30(3): 551~558. [PDF]
2007
42. *Wang Y, Jones M E H, Evans S E, 2007. A juvenile anuran from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research, 28(2): 235~244. [PDF]
43. *Evans S E, Wang Y, 2007. A juvenile lizard specimen with well-preserved skin impressions from the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Naturwissenschaften, 94(6):431~439. [PDF]
44. *Evans S E, Wang Y, Jones M E H, 2007. An aggregation of lizard skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 87(1): 109~118. [PDF]
2006
45. *Wang Y, Evans S E, 2006a. A new short-bodied salamander from the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous of China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 51(1):127~130. [PDF]
46. Wang Y, Evans S E, 2006b. Advances in the study of fossil amphibians and squamates from China: The past fifteen years. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 44(1): 60~73. // 王原, 苏珊·E·埃文斯, 2006a. 中国化石两栖类和有鳞类研究进展: 过去15年回顾. 古脊椎动物学报, 44(1): 60~73 (In English with Chinese summary). [PDF]
47. Wang Y, 2006. Phylogeny and early radiation of Mesozoic lissamphibians from East Asia. In: Rong J Y, Fang Z J, Zhou Z H, Zhan R B, Wang X D, Yuan X L (eds), Originations, Radiations and Biodiversity Changes---Evidence from the Chinese Fossil Record. Beijing: Science Press. 643~663 (in Chinese), 931~936.
2005
48. *Liu J, Wang Y, 2005. The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: Yuanansuchus laticeps gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(3): 725~728. [PDF]
49. *Wang Y, Rose C, 2005. Jeholotriton paradoxus (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Lower Cretaceous of southeastern Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(3): 523~532. [PDF]
50. *Evans S E, Wang Y, Li C, 2005. The Early Cretaceous lizard genus Yabeinosaurus from China: resolving an enigma. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 3(4): 319~335. [PDF]
51. *Evans S E, Wang Y, 2005. The Early Cretaceous lizard Dalinghosaurus from China. Acta Paleontologica Polonica, 50(4): 725~742. [PDF]
52. *Wang X L, Zhou Z H, He H Y, Jin F, Wang Y Q, Zhang J Y, Wang Y, Xu X, Zhang F C, 2005. Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou Bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia. Chinese Science Bulletin, 50(20): 2369~2376.
2004
53. *Wang Y, 2004a. A new Mesozoic caudate (Liaoxitriton daohugouensis sp. nov.) from Inner Mongolia, China. Chinese Science Bulletin (English edition), 49(8): 858~860. [PDF]
54. *Wang Y, 2004b. Taxonomy and stratigraphy of late Mesozoic anurans and urodeles from China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 78(6): 1169~1178. [PDF]
55. *Clark J M, Xu X, Forster C A, Wang Y, 2004. A Middle Jurassic ‘sphenosuchian’ from China and the origin of the crocodylian skull. Nature, 430: 1021~1024. [PDF]
2003
56. Wang Y, Gao K Q, 2003. Amphibians. In: Chang M M, Chen P J, Wang Y Q, Wang Y (eds.), The Jehol Biota: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds, and Flowering Plants. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific & Techinial Publishers. 76~85. [pdf]
57. Ting S Y, Bowen G J, Koch P L, Clyde W C, Wang Y Q, Wang Y, McKenna M C, 2003. Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and agnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin Hunan, China. In: Wing S L, Gingerich P D, Schmitz B, Thomas E (eds), Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene: Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America Special, 369: 521~535.
58. Chang M M, Chen P J, Wang Y Q, Wang Y (eds), 2003. The Jehol Biota: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers. 208pp. // Chang M M, Chen P J, Wang Y Q, Wang Y, 2007. Atlas of the Jehol Biota Fossils: The Age of Feathered Dinosaurs. Asakura Publishing Co. Ltd. 202pp. (in Japanese) // Chang M M, Chen P J, Wang Y Q, Wang Y, 2008. The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants. Academic Press, Elsevier Ltd. 208pp.
2002
59. Li C K, Wang Y (eds.), 2002. A Brief Introduction to Prehistoric Life. Beijing: Beijing Education Press. 180 pp. [in Chinese]
60. *Swisher III C C, Wang X L, Zhou Z H, Wang Y Q, Jin F, Zhang J Y, Xu X, Zhang F C, Wang Y, 2002. Further Support for a Cretaceous age for the feathered-dinosaur beds of Liaoning, China: New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Yixian and Tuchengzi Formations. Chinese Science Bulletin, 47(2): 135~138. [PDF]
61. *Bowen G J, Clyde W C, Koch P L, Ting S Y, Alroy J, Tsubamoto T, Wang Y Q, Wang Y, 2002. Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science, 295: 2062~2065. [PDF]
62. Zhang M M, Miao D S, Wang Y, 2002. Paleontological research in China: Retrospect and prospect. Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16(2): 90~93. [PDF]
2001
63. *Li J L, Wang Y, Wang Y Q, Li C K, 2001. A new family of primitive mammal from Liaoning, China. Chinese Science Bulletin (English Edition), 46(9): 782~786. [PDF]
64. *Gao K Q, Wang Y, 2001. Mesozoic anurans from Liaoning Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of archaeobatrachian anuran clades. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(3): 460~476. [PDF]
65. Wang Y, 2001. Advance in the study of Mesozoic lissamphibians from China. In: Deng T, Wang Y eds, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Beijing: China Ocean Press. 9~19. [in Chinese with English abstract] [PDF]
66. Deng T, Wang Y (eds), 2001. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Beijing: China Ocean Press. 301 pp. [in Chinese with English abstract]
67. Zhang M M, Chen P J, Wang Y Q, Wang Y (eds), 2001. The Jehol Biota. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers. 150 pp. [in Chinese]
2000
68. Wang Y, 2000. A new salamander (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 38(2): 100~103. [in Chinese with English abstract] [PDF]
69. Wang X L, Wang Y Q, Zhang J Y, Jin F, Zhou Z H, Xu X, Zhang F C, Wang Y, Hu Y M, Lü J C, Gu G, 2000. New discovery of fossil vertebrates in the Jehol Group and discussion of the non-marine Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in northern China. In: Editorial Committee of the Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Conference of China (ed.), Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Conference of China. Beijing: Geological Publishing House. 252~259. [in Chinese with English abstract] [pdf]
70. Guo J W, Wang Y, Yang X A, 2000. A new early Eocene ctenodactyloid rodent (Rodentia, Mammalia) and the associated mammalian fossils from Danjiangkou, Hubei. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 38(4): 303~313. [in Chinese with English abstract] [PDF]
71. *Wang Y, Gao K Q, Xu X, 2000. Early evolution of discoglossid frogs: new evidence from the Mesozoic of China. Naturwissenschaften, 87(9): 417~420. [PDF]
72. Wang Y, 2000. Archaic lissamphibians from China. In: Chinese Academy of Sciences (ed.), Innovators’ Report. Beijing: Science Press. 62~72. [in Chinese] [PDF]
1999
73. *Swisher III C C, Wang Y Q, Wang X L, Xu X, Wang Y, 1999. Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China. Nature. 400: 58~61. [PDF]
74. *Wang Y, Gao K Q, 1999. Earliest Asian discoglossid frog from western Liaoning. Chinese Science Bulletin, 44(7): 636~642. [PDF] /
75. Wang X L, Wang Y Q, Jin F, Xu X, Wang Y, 1999. Vertebrate assemblages of the Jehol biota in western Liaoning, China. In: Wang Y Q, Deng T (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Beijing: China Ocean Press. 1~12. [pdf]
76. Wang Y, Guo J W, Wang J W, 1999. A review of Chinese brontotheres. In: Wang Y Q, Deng T (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Beijing: China Ocean Press. 139~147. [pdf]
77. Wang X L, Wang Y Q, Xu X, Wang Y, Zhang J Y, Zhang F C, Jin F, Gu G, 1999. Record of the Sihetun vertebrate mass mortality events, western Liaoning, China: caused by volcanic eruptions. Geological Review, 45(supp): 458~467. [pdf]
78. Wang X L, Wang Y Q, Jin F, Xu X, Wang Y, Zhang J Y, Zhang F C, Tang Z L, Li C, Gu G, 1999. The Sihetun fossil vertebrate assemblage and its geological setting of western Liaoning, China. PalaeoWorld. (11): 310~327. [pdf]
1998
79. Wang X L, Wang Y Q, Wang Y, Xu X, Tang Z L, Zhang F C, Hu Y M, Gu G, Hao Z L, 1998. Stratigraphic sequence and vertebrate-bearing beds of the lower part of the Yixian Formation in Sihetun and neighboring area, western Liaoning, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 36(2): 81~101. [PDF]
80. Dong Z M, Wang Y, 1998. A new urodele (Liaoxitriton zhongjiani gen. et sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 36(2): 159~172. [PDF]
1997
81. Wang Y, Wang J W, 1997. A new brontothere from late middle Eocene of Qufu, Shandong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 35(1): 68~77. [PDF]
1995
82. Wang Y, 1995. A new primitive chalicothere (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the early Eocene of Hubei, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 33(2): 138~159. [PDF]
