Advances in Late Paleozoic palaeontology and stratigraphy in China: a tribute to the achievements of Professor Liao Zhuoting
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Through the efforts of several generations of the Chinese palaeontologists and stratigraphers, extraordinary progress has been made in the Late Paleozoic palaeontology and stratigraphy of China. Professor Liao Zhuoting, one of the pioneering palaeontologists, dedicated his lifetime to advancing the Chinese palaeontological and stratigraphical research. In his 60-year palaeontological career, Professor Liao worked on palaeontology and stratigraphy in almost all the regions across China. His research interests include palaeontology, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy, tectonostratigraphy, and their implications in mineral, oil and gas explorations. Professor Liao’s studies focus mainly on the Carboniferous and Permian brachiopod faunas. Together with his colleagues, Professor Liao has established 22 new genera and 172 new brachiopod species. His extensive research on the Carboniferous and Permian palaeontology and stratigraphy in South China and other regions in China, including documentation of a large number of brachiopod fossils, has provided abundant first-hand palaeontological data that help define the Global Stratotype of Section and Point for the Permian-Triassic boundary at the Meishan section of Changxing County, Zhejiang Province and demonstrate the extinction-survival-recovery pattern of brachiopod faunas over the P–Tr transition in later studies. Professor Liao dedicated his 35 years of efforts to the palaeontology and stratigraphy in the Altaid, Tianshan, and Kunlun mountains, as well as the Junggar, Santanghu, Tuha, and Tarim basins in Xinjiang Province, northwest China. He, together with his colleagues, established integrated stratigraphical frameworks for the Carboniferous and Permian rocks in Xinjiang, which provide a fundamental basis for mineral and hydrocarbon explorations in Xinjiang and adjacent regions, Central Asia. This special volume, consisting of 13 papers on the Devonian through Triassic palaeontology and stratigraphy of China, is a tribute to the achievements of Professor Liao Zhuoting.
