主要从事地层学、古生物学以及地球-生命系统早期演化方面的研究。

1997：中国科学院自然科学特等奖（排名第五）

1997：香港求是科技基金会“杰出科技成就集体奖”

2003：贵州省科技进步二等奖（排名第三）

2009：中国古生物学会“尹赞勋地层古生物学奖”

2013：德国哥廷根科学院外籍院士

2015：贵州省科技进步二等奖（排名第五）

2016：中国科学院“朱李月华优秀教师奖”

2016：江苏省科学技术一等奖（排名第二）

2022：伦敦地质学会终身荣誉会士

曾任国家重点基础研究发展计划（“973”）项目首席科学家，先后主持国家杰出青年基金项目、国家自然基金重点项目、中科院创新工程重要方向性项目和中国科学院战略性先导科技专项（B）项目。联合发起并主持中德和中英等重大国际合作项目、国际地质对比计划（IGCP 512）和新元古代大陆钻探计划（ICDP: GRIND-ECT）等。目前主持国家重点研发计划项目“新元古代和古生代之交地球－生命系统演变”。

科研成果：

在复杂生命早期演化、寒武纪大爆发及其与环境协同演化等方面获得系列科学发现和综合性研究成果，发表论文290余篇，其中Nature/Science/PNAS及其子刊论文19篇，Nature Index期刊论文38篇；专著4部，主编论文集17部；论文引用>14800次，H指数=67（Google Scholar）。相关成果曾入选“中国基础研究十大新闻”和“中国十大科技进展新闻”（2007）、Science杂志十大科学新闻图片（2015）、“中国古生物学十大进展”（2016, 2019, 2020, 2022）、“十大地质科技进展”（2016, 2020），以及国内外教科书。

论著目录

专著

1. 朱茂炎、赵方臣、曾晗、黄迪颖、李国祥、罗翠，澄江动物群—见证地球生命大爆发的化石自然遗产。江苏凤凰科技出版社，2024，南京。

2. 胡世学，朱茂炎，罗惠麟，米歇尔-斯坦纳，赵方臣，李国祥，刘琦，张志飞，关山生物群。云南科技出版社，2013，昆明。

3. 赵元龙，朱茂炎，Babcock, L., 彭进(主编)，凯里生物群：5.08亿年前的海洋生物。贵州科技出版社，2011，贵阳。

4. 陈均远，周桂琴，朱茂炎，叶贵玉，澄江生物群—寒武纪生命大爆炸的见证。国立自然博物馆出版。1996，台中。

编辑论文集

1. Shen, S., Ding, L., Zhu, M., Wang, X., Deng, T. (eds.), Preface to integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Sci China Earth Sci, (2024), 67(4): 895–1394.

沈树忠, 丁林, 朱茂炎, 王向东, 邓涛，前言: 青藏高原及其周边综合地层、生物群与古地理演化。中国科学: 地球科学，(2024), 54(4): 911‒1410。

2. 朱茂炎, 郭正堂，汪品先(主编)，水循环的地质演变。科学通报，68（12）(2023): 1421 ~ 1592.

3. 朱茂炎 (主编)，中国各纪岩石地层划分和对比。地层学杂志，45（3）(2021): 211 ~ 466.

4. Li, C., Zhu, M., Feng, Q., Clousen, S. (eds.), The co-evolution of life and environments in South China from Snowball Earth to Cambrian Explosion. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 563 (2021)

5. Zhu, M., Li, X.-H. (eds.), From snowball Earth to the Cambrian explosion–evidence from China. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1187-1397.

6. Li, C., Zhu, M. Y., Chu, X. L. (eds.), Atmospheric and Oceanic Oxygenation and Evolution of Early Life on Earth: New Contributions from China. Journal of Earth Science, 27(2) (2016), 167–328.

7. Maletz, J., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M. (eds.), The Cambrian bioradiation. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 1-186.

8. Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M. (eds.), Biogeochemical changes across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 1-230.

9. Fatka, V., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M. (eds.), The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (1) (2012), 67-200.

10. Zhao, Y., Zhu, M., Peng, J., Gaines, R. R., Parsley, R.L. (eds.), Cryogenian – Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29 (Suppl.) (2012), 1-198.

11. 朱茂炎(主编), 动物的起源和寒武纪大爆发：来自中国的化石证据。古生物学报，49(3) 2010)，269-424。

12. Zhu, M., Strauss, H., Shields, G. A. (eds.), From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian Earth history in South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology，Special Issue, 54 (1-2) (2007), 1-361.

13. Zhu, M.-Y., Babcock, L. E. (eds.). The Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System, 19th-23th August, 2005, Nanjing China. Palaeoworld, Special Issue, 15 (2006), 217-431.  

14. Peng, S., Babcock, L. E., Zhu, M. (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei, (2005), 1-300.

15. Peng, S., Zhu, M., Li, G. & Van Iten, H. (eds.), Abstracts and Short Papers. The Fourth Interantional Symposium on the Cambrian System, Nanjing, August 18-24, 2005. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 22(Suppl.) (2005), 1-223.

16. Zhu, M., Steiner, M. (eds.), Biological and Geological Processes of the Cambrian Explosion. Progress in Natural Science, Special Issue 2004, (2004), 1-158.

17. Zhu, M., Van Iten, H., Peng, S., and Li, G. (eds.), Cambrian of South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinia, 40 (Suppl.) (2001), 1-241.

18. Peng, S., Babcock, L. E. and Zhu, M. (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 1-310.

论文 (按年代自新至老排列; *非第一作者论文通讯作者)

2024:

1. Chen, K., Yang, C., Miao, L., Zhao, F., Zhu, M.*, New SIMS U-Pb Zircon Age on the Macroscopic Multicellular Eukaryotes from the Early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, North China. Geological Magazine, 2024,

2. Chen, K., Miao, L., Zhao, F., Zhu, M.*, Discoidal Carbonaceous Compressions from the Early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation: A Fossil Example of Microbial Biofilm. Journal of the Geological Society, 181(2024): jgs2024-005. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-005 

3. Fan, L., Xu, B., Chen, S., Liu, Y., Li, Y., Xie, W., Prabhu, A., Zou, D., Wan, R., Li, H., Liu, Y., Kao, S.-J., Chen, J., Zhu, Y., Rinke, C., Li, M., Zhu, M., Zhang, C., Gene inversion led to the emergence of brackish archaeal heterotrophs in the aftermath of the Cryogenian Snowball Earth. PNAS Nexus, 3(2024), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae057 

4. Liu, Y., Bowyer, F.T., Zhu, M., Xiong, Y., He, T., Han, M., Tang, X., Zhang, J., Poulton, S.W., Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals. Geology, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1130/G52220.1 

5. Miao, L., Yin, Z., Knoll, A.H., Qu, Y., Zhu, M.*, 1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China. Science Advances, 10(2024), eadk3208.

6. Miao, L., Yin, Z., Li, G., Zhu, M.*, First report of Tappania and associated microfossils from the late Paleoproterozoic Chuanlinggou Formation of the Yanliao Basin, North China. Precambrian Research, 400 (2024), 107268.

7. Shen, S., Ding, L., Zhu, M., Wang, X., Deng, T., Preface to integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Sci China Earth Sci, (2024), 67(4): 895–898. 

沈树忠,丁林,朱茂炎, 王向东, 邓涛，前言: 青藏高原及其周边综合地层、生物群与古地理演化。中国科学: 地球科学，(2024), 54(4): 911‒914。

8. Sun, L., Khan, M.S.S., Yang, C., Sun, Z., Pan, B., Ahmed, A., Miao, L., Sun, W., Hu, C., Sun, X., Luo, C., Chen, B., Yin, Z., Zhao, F., Li, G., Zhu, M.*,  Integrative Cryogenian and Ediacaran stratigraphy, biotas, and palaeogeographical evolutions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Sci China Earth Sci, (2024), 67(4): 919–949.

孙郎，Malik Muhammad Saud Sajid Khan, 杨传，孙智新，潘兵，Shehryar Ahmed, 苗兰云，孙玮辰，胡春林，孙晓娟，罗翠，陈波，殷宗军，赵方臣，李国祥，朱茂炎*, 青藏高原及其周边成冰纪–埃迪卡拉纪综合地层、古生物群与古地理演化. 中国科学: 地球科学，(2024), 54(4): 936‒967.  

9. Sun, W, Yin, Z, Liu, P, Zhu, M, Donoghue, P., Developmental biology of Spiralicellula and the Ediacaran origin of crown metazoans. Proc. R. Soc. B, (2024), 291: 20240101. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0101 

10. Sun, Z., Sun, L., Zhao, F., Pan, B., Khan, M.S.S., Ahmed, A., Yang, C., Miao, L., Yin, Z., Li, G., Zhu, M., Integrative Cambrian stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographic evolutions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent areas. Sci China Earth Sci, (2024), 67(4): 950–970.

孙智新，孙郎，赵方臣，潘兵，Khan Malik Muhammad Saud Sajid, Ahmed Shehryar, 杨传，苗兰云，殷宗军，李国祥，朱茂炎, 青藏高原及其周边寒武纪综合地层、古生物群与古地理演化. 中国科学: 地球科学, (2024), 54(4): 968‒991. 

11. Wu, J., Sun, W., Shang, X., Liu, P., Zhu, M., Yin, Z., New materials of acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (South China). Journal of Paleontology, 0(0), 2024, p. 1–23.

12. Xiang, K., Yin, Z., Liu, W., Zhao, F., Zhu, M., Early Cambrian Cambroclavus is a scleritomous eumetazoan unrelated to bryozoan or dasyclad algae. Geology, 52(2024), 130-134. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51663.1

13. Yang, A., Chen, B., Sun, Z., Tostevin, R., He, T., Chen, X., Chen, J., Lu, M., Hu, C., Du, S., Chen, J., Jiao, W., Zhu, M., 2024, Shallow ocean deoxygenation drove trilobite turnover during the late Cambrian SPICE event. Geology, XX(2024), XXX–XXX, https://doi.org/10.1130/G52200.1  

14. 王永达, 杨石岭, 沈冰, 朱茂炎, 陈祚伶, 纪伟强, 黄晓芳, 孙敏敏, 张师豪，地球深部过程与极热和极冷事件. 科学通报，69(2024), 215-229.

15. 徐义刚, 黄小龙, 王强, 王煜, 李高军, 刘耘, 毛河光, 倪怀玮, 朱茂炎. 地球宜居性的深部驱动机制. 科学通报，69(2024), 169-183.

2023：

16. Ahmed, S., Pan, B., Khan, M. M. S. S., Li, G., Qasim, M., Luo, C., Sun, X., Zhu, M.*, First discovery of the Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils from the Sirban Member of the Abbottabad Formation in Lesser Himalaya, North Pakistan and its biostratigraphic significance. Journal of Stratigraphy, 47(2023), 339-352.

17. Bowyer, F. T. *, Zhuravlev, A. Yu, Wood, R., Zhao, F., Sukhov, S. S., Alexander, R. D., Poulton, S. W., Yang, C., Zhu, M.*, Implications of an integrated late Ediacaran to early Cambrian stratigraphy of the Siberian Platform, Russia. GSA Bulletin, 135 (2023), 2428–2450.

18. Chen, K., Miao, L., Zhao, F., Zhu, M.*, Carbonaceous macrofossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan Range, North China. Precambrian Research, 392 (2023), 107074.

19. Hu, S. *, Zhao, F., Liu, A. G., Zhu, M. *, A new Cambrian frondoseorganism: "Ediacaran survivor"or convergent evolution? Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2023), jgs2022-088.

20. Pan, B., Khan, Malik M. S. S., Li, G., Ahmed, Shehryar, Qasim, M., Yin, Z., Khan, J. I. A., Zhu, M., Occurrence ofTannuolina in the lower Cambrian of Hazara Basin, Pakistan and its biostratigraphical significance. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(4)(2023), jgs2021-149.

21. Sun, H, Zhao, F, Zhu, M. Anatomy, palaeoautecology and phylogenetic affinity of tubular Glossolites magnus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China. Papers in Palaeontology, 8(6) (2022): e1473.  

22. Sun, Z., Yang, A., Zhao, F., Zhuravlev, A. Yu, Pan, B., Hu, C., Feng, Q., Chen, X., Zhu, M., New trilobite assemblage from the lower Cambrian (upper Stage 4) of the Lake Zone, western Mongolia. Journal of Paleontology, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2023.23 

23. Tian, Q., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Zhu, M., Jiang, B., Response to Comments (Zhang/Pratt and He et al.) on "Ultrastructure reveals ancestral vertebrate pharyngeal skeleton in yunnanozoans". Science, 381(6656) (2023), eadf3363:1-4. DOI: 10.1126/science.adf336

24. Wang, X., Algeo, T.J., Li, C., Zhu, M., Spatial pattern of marine oxygenation set by tectonic and ecological drivers over the Phanerozoic. Nature Geosciences, 16(2023), 1020–1026. 

25. Yang, C., Bowyer, F.T., Condon, D. J., Li, X.-H., Zhu, M. New U-Pb age from the Shuijingtuo Formation (Yangtze Gorges area) and its implications for the Cambrian timescale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 616 (2023), 111477.

26. Yuan, L., Zhou. Y., Chen, X., Zhu, M., Poulton, S. W., Tian, Z., Li, D., Thirlwall, M., Shield, G. A. Multiple ocean oxygenation events during the Ediacaran Period: Mo isotope evidence from the Nanhua Basin, South China. Precambrian Research, 388 (2023), 107004

27. Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Zhu, M., Innovatiocaris, a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta. Journal of the Geological Society, 180 (1) (2023), jgs2021-164.

28. Zhang Y., Mills B., He T., Hu X, Zhu M., Modeling hyperthermal events in the Mesozoic-Paleogene periods: a review. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11(2023), 1226349.

29. 陈波，朱茂炎，氧同位素在古温度重建及水循环研究中的应用. 科学通报，68 (2023), 1528 ~ 1543.   

30. 张莹刚，Benjamin J.W. Mills，何天辰，杨涛，朱茂炎, 显生宙长时间尺度碳循环演变的模拟：现状与展望. 科学通报，68 (2023), 1580 ~ 1592.

31. 朱茂炎, 郭正堂，汪品先，水循环的地质演变：研究现状与关键问题。科学通报，68(2023),1425 ~ 1442.

32. 朱茂炎, 郭正堂，汪品先，水循环地质演变研究的重要性。科学通报，68(2023), 1421 ~ 1424.

2022：

33. Bowyer, F. T., Zhuravlev, A. Yu, Wood, R., Shields, G. A., Zhou, Y., Curtis, A., Poulton, S. W., Condon, D. J., Yang, C., Zhu, M., Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals. Earth-Science Reviews, 225 (2022), 103913.

34. Chang, B., Li, C., Algeo, T., Lyons, T., Shi, W., Cheng, M., Luo, G., She, Z., Xie, S., Tong, J., Zhu, M., Huang, J., Foster, I., Tripati, A., A∼ 60-Ma-long, high-resolution record of Ediacaran paleotemperature. Science Bulletin, 67 (2022), 910–913.     

35. Chen, B., Hu, C., Mills, B.J.W., He, T., Andersen, M.B., Chen, X., Liu, P., Lu, M., Newton, R.J., Poulton, S.W., Shields, G.A., Zhu, M.*, A short-lived oxidation event during the early Ediacaran and delayed oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 577(2022), 117274.

36. Khan, M. M. S. S., Umar, M., Pan, B., Sun, X., Ahmed, S., Luo, C., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Qasim, M., Jadoon, I. A. K., Shen, S., Ding, L., Zhu, M. *, A newly discovered Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate couplet from the Western Himalaya: The expansion of the Marinoan snowball Earth glaciation to the northwestern margin of the Indian Plate in North Pakistan. Precambrian Research, 378 (2022), 106759.

37. Shields, Graham A, Robin A Strachan, Susannah M Porter, Galen P Halverson, Francis A Macdonald, Kenneth A Plumb, Carlos J De Alvarenga, Dhiraj M Banerjee, Andrey Bekker, Wouter Bleeker, Alexander Brasier, Partha P Chakraborty, Alan S Collins, Kent Condie, Kaushik Das, David AD Evans, Richard Ernst, Anthony E Fallick, Hartwig Frimmel, Reinhardt Fuck, Paul F Hoffman, Balz S Kamber, Anton B Kuznetsov, Ross N Mitchell, Daniel G Poiré, Simon W Poulton, Robert Riding, Mukund Sharma, Craig Storey, Eva Stueeken, Rosalie Tostevin, Elizabeth Turner, Shuhai Xiao, Shuanhong Zhang, Ying Zhou, Maoyan Zhu, A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian time scale. Journal of the Geological Society, 179(1)(2022), jgs2020-222. 

38. Sun, Z., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Luo, C., Van Iten, H., Zhu, M., The middle Cambrian Linyi Lagerstätte from the North China Craton: a new window on the Cambrian evolutionary fauna. National Science Review, 9(2022), nwac069.

39. Tian, Q., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Zhu, M., Jiang, B., Ultrastructure reveals ancestral vertebrate pharyngeal skeleton in yunnanozoans. Science, 377(2022), 218–222.

40. Yang, C., Li, X.-H., Zhu, M.-Y., Tectonic regime transition of the western South China Block in early Cambrian: Evidence from the Meishucun volcanic ash beds. Palaeoworld, 31(2022), 591–599.

41. Yin, Z., Sun, W., Reitner, J., Zhu, M., New holozoans with cellular resolution from the early Ediacaran Weng'an Biota, Southwest China. Journal of the Geological Society, 179 (4) (2022), jgs2021-061. 

42. Yin, Z.*, Sun, W., Liu, P., Chen, J., Bottjer, D.J., Li, J., Zhu, M.*, Diverse and complex developmental mechanisms of Early Ediacaran embryo-like fossils from the Weng’an Biota, southwest China. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 377(2022), 20210032.

43. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, A., Li, G., Zhao, F., Lu, M., Yin, Z., Miao, L., Hu, C., Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments and Hydrocarbon Source-Reservoir - Seal Bed Assemblage in South China. In: Wang, T. (eds.), Meso-Neoproterozoic Geology and Petroleum Resources in China. Chapter 5 (2022), 181-227. Springer.

朱茂炎，张俊明，杨爱华，李国祥，赵方臣，吕苗，殷宗军，苗兰云，胡春林，华南新元古代地层、生－储－盖层发育与沉积环境。见：王铁冠等编：中国东部中—新元古界地质学与油气资源，第5章。北京: 科学出版社。(2023), 117-151。

44. 孙郎，杨传，孙智新，孙玮辰，苗兰云，潘兵，陈波，殷宗军，赵方臣，李国祥，朱茂炎*. 中祁连西段前寒武纪地层时代新认识：肃北地区石板墩铁矿的碎屑锆石U-Pb年代学. 地层学杂志, 40(2022), 215-229.

45. 熊轶伟，潘兵，吕苗，冯倩，孙晓娟，杨爱华，朱茂炎. 四川南部埃迪卡拉纪-寒武纪过渡时期碳同位素地层学再研究. 地层学杂志, 40 (2022) , 230-244.

46. 朱茂炎，前寒武纪全球地质年代划分新趋势. 地层学杂志, (2022), 46(2): 209-213.

2021：

47. Aria, C.*, Zhao, F., Zhu, M.*, Fuxianhuiids are mandibulates and share affinities with total-group Myriapoda. Journal of the Geological Society, 178(2021), jgs2020-246.

48. Cui, H., Kaufman, A. J., Xiao, S., Zhou, C., Zhu, M., Cao, M., Loyd, S., Crockford, P., Liu, X.-M., Goderis, S., Wang, W., Guan, C., Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S, and Ba cycles in response to Shuram oxygenation event. Journal of the Geological Society, (2021) jgs2021-081.

49. Li, C., Zhu, M., Feng, Q., Clousen, S., The co-evolution of life and environments in South China from Snowball Earth to Cambrian Explosion. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 563 (2021), 110181.

50. Miao, L., Moczydłowska, M., Zhu, M.*, A diverse organic-walled microfossil assemblage from the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation, North China. Precambrian Research, 360 (2021), 106235.

51. Sun, W., Yin, Z., Liu, P., Donoghue, P. C.J., Li, J., Zhu, M., Ultrastructure and in‑situ chemical characterization of intracellular granules of embryo‑like fossils from the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota. PalZ, 95 (2021), 611-621.

52. Wang, D.Z., Zhao, F.C., Zeng, H., Li, G.X., Zhu, M.Y., A new rhynchonelliform brachiopodLongtancunella with soft-part preservation from the Hongjingshao Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) in Yunnan, South China. Palaeoworld, 31(4) (2021), 570-581.

53. Yang, C.*, Rooney, A.D.*, Condon, D.J., Li, X.-H., Grazhdankin, D. V, Bowyer, F.T., Hu, C., Macdonald, F.A., and Zhu, M.*, The tempo of Ediacaran evolution. Science Advances, 7(2021), eabi9643.

54. Yang, Y., Zhang, C., Lenton, T. M., Yan, X., Zhu, M., Zhou, M., Tao, J., Phelps, T. J., Cao, Z., The evolution pathway of ammonia-oxidizing archaea shaped by major geological events. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(9)(2021), 3637-3648.

55. Zeng, H., Zhao, F.-C., Yin, Z.-J., Zhu, M.-Y., A new early Cambrian bivalved euarthropod from Yunnan, China and general interspecific morphological and size variations in Cambrian hymenocarines. Palaeoworld, 30(2021), 387-397.

56. Zhao, H., Zhang, S., Zhu, M., Ding, J., Li, H., Yang, T., Wu, H., Paleomagnetic insights into the Cambrian biogeographic conundrum: Did the North China Craton link Laurentia and East Gondwana? Geology, 49(4) (2021), 372-376.

57. Zhu, M., Babcock, L.E., Peng, S., Ahlberg, P., Reply to ‘Uppermost Cambrian carbon chemostratigraphy: the HERB and undocumented TOCE events are not synonymous’. Geological Magazine, 158(2021):1323–1326.

58. 朱茂炎, 孙智新, 杨爱华, 袁金良, 李国祥, 周志强, 张俊明. 中国寒武纪岩石地层划分和对比. 地层学杂志, 45(3) (2021), 223-249.

59. 朱茂炎，忽冷忽热的地球及其对生命的影响。戎嘉余等(主编)，化石密语。江苏凤凰科学技术出版社。(2021), 310-327. （科普文章）

2020：

60. Aria, C., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Guo, J., Zhu, M. *, Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20(1) (2020), 1-17.

61. Bottjer, D.J., Yin, Z., Zhao, F., Zhu, M., Comparative taphonomy and phylogenetic signal of phosphatized Weng’an and Kuanchuanpu Biotas. Precambrian Research, 349(2020), 105408.

62. Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S.W., Thompson, J., Husband, K. F., Zhu, M., Zhou, Y., Shields, G. A., Lenton, T. M., Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen. Nature Geoscience, 13(2020), 296-301.

63. Hu, C., Zhu, M.*, Lithofacies and glacio-tectonic deformation structures of the Tiesi'ao/Dongshanfeng Formations on the Yangtze Block, South China: Implications for Sturtian Glaciation dynamics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 538 (2020), 109481.

64. Rooney, A. D., Yang, C., Condon, D.J., Zhu, M., Macdonald, F. A., U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology tracks stratigraphic condensation in the Sturtian snowball Earth aftermath. Geology, 48(2020), 625-629.

65. Sun, H., Yin, Z., Li, G., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Zhu, M., Periodic shell decollation as an ecology-driven strategy in the early Cambrian Cupitheca. Palaeontology, 63(2020), 431-442.

66. Sun, H., Zhao, F., Steiner, M., Li, G., Na, L., Pan, B., Yin, Z., Zeng, H., Van Iten, H., Zhu, M.*, Skeletal faunas of the lower Cambrian Yu'anshan Formation, eastern Yunnan, China: Metazoan diversity and community structure during the Cambrian Age 3. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 542 (2020), 109580.

67. Sun, W., Yin, Z., Cunningham, J. A., Liu, P., Zhu, M., Donoghue, P. C.J., Nucleus preservation in early Ediacaran Weng'an embryo-like fossils, experimental taphonomy of nuclei and implications for reading the eukaryote fossil record. Interface Focus, 10(2020), 20200015.

68. Wei, G.-Y., Ling, H.-F., Shields, G.A., Chen, T.Y., Lechte, M., Chen, X., Qiu, C., Lei, H., Zhu, M., Long-term evolution of terrestrial inputs from the Ediacaran to early Cambrian: Clues from Nd isotopes in shallow-marine carbonates, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 535(2019), 109367.

69. Yang, C., Li, X.-H., Li, Z.-X., Zhu, M., Lu, K., Provenance Evolution of Age‐Calibrated Strata Reveals When and How South China Block Collided With Gondwana. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(2020), e2020GL090282.

70. Yin, Z., Sun, W., Liu, P., Zhu, M., Donoghue, P. C.J., Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China). Science Advances, 6(24) (2020), eabb0083.

71. Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Niu, K., Zhu, M., Huang, D., An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages. Nature, 588(2020), 101-105.

72. Zhou, Y. *, Pogge von Strandmann, P.A.E., Zhu, M.*, Ling, H., Manning, C., Li, D., He, T., Shields, G.A., Reconstructing Tonian seawater ⁸7Sr/⁸⁶Sr using calcite microspar. Geology, 48(2020), 462-467.

2019

73. He, T. *, Zhu, M.*, Mills, B. J.W., Wynn, P. M., Zhuravlev, A. Yu., Tostevin, R., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., Yang, A., Poulton, S. W., Shields, G. A.*, Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals. Nature Geoscience, 12(2019), 468-474.

74. Miao, L., Moczydłowska, M.*, Zhu, S., Zhu, M.*, New record of organic-walled, morphologically distinct microfossils from the late Paleoproterozoic Changcheng Group in the Yanshan Range, North China. Precambrian Research, 321 (2019), 172-198.

75. Shields, G.A.*, Mills, B.J.W.*, Zhu, M.*, Raub, T.D., Daines, S., Lenton, T.M., Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial. Nature Geoscience, 12(2019), 823-827.

76. Sun, W.C., Yin, Z.J., Donoghue, P., Liu, P.J., Shang, X.D., Zhu, M.Y., Tubular microfossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) are not early animals. Palaeoworld, 28(2019), 469-477.

77. Yin, Z., Vargas, K., Cunningham, J., Bengtson, S., Zhu, M., Marone, F., Donoghue, P., The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology. Current Biology, 29(2019), 4307-4314.

78. Zhang, T., Yuan, D., Xie, J., Lei, Y., Li, J., Fang, G., Ling, T., Liu, J., Cui, Y., Zhang, M., Xiao, Y., Xu, Y., Zhang, J., Zhu, M., Zhan S., Li, S., Evolution of the Cholesterol Biosynthesis Pathway in Animals. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(2019), 2548-2556.

79. Zhu, M., Yang, A., Yuan, J., Li, G., Zhang, J., Zhao, F., Ahn, S.-Y., Miao, L., Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Sci China Earth Sci, 62 (2019), 25-60.

朱茂炎, 杨爱华, 袁金良, 李国祥, 张俊明, 赵方臣, Ahn, Soo-Yeun, 苗兰云, 中国寒武纪综合地层和时间框架。中国科学：地球科学, 49 (2019), 26-65。

80. 纪秋梅，吕苗，张俊明，胡春林，朱茂炎*，埃迪卡拉纪全球成磷事件沉积地球化学模型探讨：以扬子板块不同相区陡山沱组含磷岩层研究为实例。高校地质学报，25 (2019), 068-080。

81. 朱茂炎，赵方臣，殷宗军，曾晗，李国祥，中国的寒武纪大爆发研究: 进展与展望。中国科学：地球科学, 49 (2019), 1455-1490。

2018

82. Li, C., Cheng, M., Zhu, M., Lyon, T.W., Heterogeneous and dynamic marine shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2(2) (2018), 279-288.

83. Sun, H., Malinky, J.M., Zhu, M., Huang, D., Palaeobiology of orthothecide hyoliths from the Cambrian Manto Formation of Hebei Province, North China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63 (2018), 87-101.

84. Sun, H., Smith, M.R., Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Li, G., Zhu, M., Hyoliths with pedicles illuminate the origin of the brachiopod body plan. Proc. R. Soc. B, 285 (2018), 20181780.

85. Wang, D., Ling, H., Struck, U., Zhu, X.-K., Zhu, M., He, T., Yang, B., Gamper, A., Shields, G.A., Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Nature Communications, 9 (2018), 2575.   

86. Yang, C., Li, X.H., Zhu, M., Condon, D.J., Chen, J., Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China Journal of the Geological Society, 175(2018), 659-666.

87. Yin, Z., Zhao, D., Pan, B., Zhao, F., Zeng, H., Li, G., Bottjer, D.J., Zhu, M., Early Cambrian animal diapause embryos revealed by X-ray tomography. Geology, 46(2018), 387-390.

88. Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., A new radiodontan oral cone with a combination of anatomical features from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, South China. Journal of Paleontology, 92 (2018), 40-48.

89. Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Morphology of diverse radiodontan head sclerites from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, south-west China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16 (2018), 1-37.

90. 胡春林，赵方臣，纪秋梅，朱茂炎, 宁镇山脉的盖帽碳酸盐岩。地层学杂志，42 (2018), 381-392。

91. 朱茂炎, 虫子的一小步, 动物演化史上的一大步。科学通报，63 (2018), 2197-2198。（书评）

2017

92. Ahn, A.Y., Zhu, M., Lowermost Cambrian acritarchs from the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: implication for defining the base of the Cambrian in the Yangtze Platform. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1217-1231.

93. He, T., Zhou, Y., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M., Carter, A., von Strandmann, P. A.E. P., Shields, G.A., Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448 (2017), 145-159. 

94. Hu, S.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhao, F.-C., Steiner, M., A crown group priapulid from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstätte. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1329–1333.

95. Kruse, P. D., Zhuravlev, A. Yu., Parkhaev, P. Yu., Zhu, M., Comment: A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia by Marissa J. Betts, John R. Paterson, James B. Jago, Sarah M. Jacquet, Christian B. Skovsted, Timothy P. Topper & Glenn A. Brock, Gondwana Research, 44 (2017), 258-261.

96. Wood, R. Zhuravlev, A.Yu., Sukhov, S.S., Zhu, M., and Zhao, F., Demise of Ediacaran dolomitic seas marks widespread biomineralisation on the Siberian platform. Geology, 45 (2017), 27-30.

97. Yang, C., Li, X.-H., Zhu, M., Condon, D., SIMS U–Pb zircon geochronological constraints on upper Ediacaran stratigraphic correlations, South China. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1202–1216.

98. Yang, C., Zhu, M., Condon, D.J., Li, X.-H., Geochronological constraints on stratigraphic correlation and oceanic oxygenation in Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 140 (2017), 75–81.

99. Yin, Z., Cunningham, J.A., Vergas, K., Bengtson, S., Zhu, M., Donoghue, P.C.J., Nuclei and nucleoli in embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota. Precambrian Research, 301 (2017), 145-151.

100. Zeng, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Appendages of an early Cambrian metadoxidid trilobite from Yunnan, SW China support mandibulate affinities of trilobites and artiopods. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1306-1328.

101. Zhao, F., Smith, M.R., Yin, Z., Zeng, H., Li G., Zhu, M., Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp. and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution. Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), 16232. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16304-6.

102. Zhu, M., Li, X.-H., Introduction: from snowball Earth to the Cambrian explosion–evidence from China. Geological Magazine, 154 (2017), 1187–1192.

103. Zhu, M., Zhuravlev, A.Yu., Wood, R.A., Zhao, F., Sukhov, S.S., A deep root for the Cambrian explosion: Implications of new bio- and chemostratigraphy from the Siberian Platform. Geology, 45 (2017), 459-462. 

2016

104. Duda, J.-P., Zhu, M., Reitner, J., Depositional dynamics of a bituminous carbonate facies in a tectonically induced intra-platform basin: the Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation, Ediacaran Period). Carbonate Evaporates, 31 (2016), 87–99.

105. Li, C., Zhu, M. Y., Chu, X. L., Atmospheric and Oceanic Oxygenation and Evolution of Early Life on Earth: New Contributions from China. Journal of Earth Science, 27(2) (2016), 167–169.

106. Luo, C., Zhu, M., Reitner, J., The Jinxian Biota revisited: taphonomy and body plan of the Neoproterozoic discoid fossils from the southern Liaodong Peninsula, North China. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 90 (2016), 205-224.

107. Och, L.M., Cremonese, L., Shields-Zhou, G.A., Poulton, S.W., Struck, U., Ling, H., Li, D., Chen, X., Manning, C., Thirlwall, M., Strauss, H., Zhu, M., Palaeoceanographic controls on spatial redox distribution over the Yangtze Platform during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Sedimentology, 63 (2016), 378-410.

108. Yang, A., Zhu, M., Zhuravlev, A. Y., Yuan, K., Zhang, J., Chen, Y., Archaeocyathan zonation of the Yangtze Platform: Implications for regional and global correlation of lower Cambrian stages. Geological Magazine, 153 (2016), 388-409.

109. Yang, B., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Li, G., Liu, J., Liu, P., Transitional Ediacaran-Cambrian small skeletal fossil assemblages from South China and Kazakhstan: Implications for chronostratigraphy and metazoan evolution. Precambrian Research, 285 (2016), 202-215.

110. Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Bottjer, D.J., Zhao, F., Tafforeau, P., Meroblastic cleavage identifies some Ediacaran Doushantuo (China) embryo-like fossils as metazoans. Geology, 44 (2016), 735-738.

111. Zhu, S., Zhu, M.*, Knoll, A.H., Yin, Z., Zhao, F., Sun, S., Qu, Y., Shi, M., Liu, H., Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China. Nature Communications, 7 (2016), 11500.

112. 朱茂炎，全球新元古代沉积地层研究现状。见：孙枢、王铁冠主编：中国东部中—新元古界地质学与油气资源，第1章。北京: 科学出版社。(2016), 3-24。

113. 朱茂炎，张俊明，杨爱华，李国祥，赵方臣，吕苗，殷宗军， 华南新元古代地层、生－储－盖层发育与沉积环境。见：孙枢、王铁冠主编：中国东部中—新元古界地质学与油气资源，第5章。北京: 科学出版社。(2016), 107-135。

2015

114. Babcock, L. E., Peng, S., Brett, C. E., Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P., Bevis, M., Robison, R.A., Global climate, sea level cycles, and biotic events in the Cambrian Period. Palaeoworld, 24 (2015), 5-15.

115. Chen, X., Ling, H.-F., Vance, D., Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M., Poulton, S.W., Och, L.M., Jiang, S.-Y., Li, D., Cremonese, L., Archer, C., Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals. Nature Communications, 6 (2015): 7142.

116. Condon, D. J., Boggiani, P., Fike, D., Halverson, G.P., Kasemann, S., Knoll, A.H., Macdonald, F.A., Prave, A.R., Zhu, M., Accelerating Neoproterozoic research through scientific drilling. Scientific Drilling, 19 (2015), 17–25.

117. Cui, H., Kaufman, A.J., Xiao, S., Zhu, M., Zhou, C., Liu, X.-M., Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: Integrated chemostratigraphic (δ¹³C–δ³⁴S–⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr–Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 405 (2015), 48-62.

118. Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S. W., Butterfield, N. J., Zhu, M., Shields-Zhou, G. A., A global transition to ferruginous conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean. Nature Geoscience, 8 (2015), 466-470.

119. Lan, Z., Li, X., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Revisiting the Liantuo Formation in Yangtze Block, South China: SIMS U–Pb zircon age constraints and regional and global significance. Precambrian Research, 263 (2015), 123-141.

120. Wang, D., Struck, U., Ling, H., Guo, Q., Shields-Zhou, G.A., Zhu, M., Yao, S., Marine redox variations and nitrogen cycle of the early Cambrian southern margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: Evidence from nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes. Precambrian Research, 267 (2015), 209-226.

121. Yin, Z., Zhu, M.*, Davidson, E. H., Bottjer, D.J., Zhao, F., Tafforeau, P., Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian. PNAS, 112 (12) (2015), E1453–E1460.

122. Zhao, F.-C., Smith, M.R., Yin, Z.-J., Zeng, H., Hu, S.-X., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., First report of Wiwaxia from the Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Geological Magazine, 152 (2015), 378-382.

123. 邓义楠, 郭庆军, 朱茂炎, 张俊明, 湘西下寒武统牛蹄塘组黑色岩系的微量元素地球化学特征。矿物岩石地球化学通报，34 (2015), 410-418。

124. 杨爱华，朱茂炎，张俊明，赵方臣，吕苗， 扬子板块埃迪卡拉系(震旦系)陡山沱组层序地层划分与对比。古地理学报，17 (2015), 1-20。

2014

125. Babcock, L. E., Peng, S., Zhu, M., Xiao, S., Ahlberg, P., Proposed reassessment of the Cambrian GSSP. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 98 (2014), 3-10.

126. Boyle, R. A., Dahl, T.W., Dale, A.W., Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M., Brasier, M. D., Canfield, D. E., Lenton, T. M., Stabilization of the coupled oxygen and phosphorus cycles by the evolution of bioturbation. Nature Geoscience, 7 (2014), 671-676.

127. Duda, J.-P., Blumenberg, M., Thiel, V., Simon, K., Zhu, M., Reitner, J., Geobiology of a palaeoecosystem with Ediacara-type fossils: The Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation, South China). Precambrian Research, 225 (2014), 48-62.

128. Huang, D., Chen, J., Zhu, M. & Zhao, F., The burrow dwelling behaviour and locomotion of palaeoscolecidian worms: New fossil evidence from the Cambrian Chengjiang fauna. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 154-164.

129. Lan, Z., Li, X., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Lu, D., Liu, Y., Tang, G., A rapid and synchronous initiation of the wide spread Cryogenian glaciations. Precambrian Research, 256 (2014), 401-411.

130. Liu, P.*, Chen, S.*, Zhu, M.*, Li, M., Yin, C., Shang, X., High-resolution biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Chenjiayuanzi section of the Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implication for subdivision and global correlation of the Ediacaran System. Precambrian Research, 249 (2014), 199-214.

131. Maletz, J., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M., The Cambrian bioradiation event: A Chinese perspective. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 1-3.

132. Steiner, M., Qian, Y., Li, G., Hagadorn, J. W. & Zhu, M., The developmental cycles of early Cambrian Olivooidae fam. Nov. (?Cycloneuralia) from the Yangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 97-124.

133. Wu, W., Zhu, M. *, Steiner, M., Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 398 (2014), 86-96.

134. Xiao, S., Zhou, C., Zhu, M., International Symposium and Field Workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy. Episodes, 37 (2014), 218-221.

135. Yin, Z., Liu, P., Li, G., Tafforeau, P., Zhu. M.*, Biological and taphonomic implications of Ediacaran fossil embryos undergoing cytokinesis. Gondwana Research, 25 (2014), 1019-1026.

136. Zeng, H., Zhao F., Yin, Z., Li, G. & Zhu, M., A Chengjiang-type fossil assemblage from the Hongjingshao Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) at Chenggong, Kunming, Yunnan. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59 (2014), 3169-3175.

137. Zhao, F., Caron, J.-B., Bottjer, D.J., Hu, S., Yin, Z., Zhu, M., Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China. Paleobiology, 40(1) (2014), 50-69.

138. Zhao, F., Hu, S., Zeng, H., Zhu, M., A new helmetiid arthropod from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, southwest China. Journal of Paleontology, 88(2) (2014), 367–370.

139. 邓义楠, 郭庆军, 朱茂炎, 张俊明, 湘西寒武纪早期黑色岩系中干酪根的稀土元素地球化学特征。 地球科学，39 (2014), 283-292。

140. 苗兰云，朱茂炎*， 华北板块南部寒武系底部辛集组遗迹化石及其时代意义。古生物学报，53(3) (2014), 274-289。

141. 殷宗军，黎刚，朱茂炎， 两种微体化石三维无损成像技术的对比。微体古生物学报，31(4) (2014), 440-452。

2013

142. Guo, Q., Strauss, H., Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Lu, M., Zhao, F., High resolution organic carbon isotope stratigraphy from a slope to basinal setting on the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 209-217.

143. Ling, H., Chen, X., Li, D., Wang, D., Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M., Cerium anomaly variations in Ediacaran-earliest Cambrian carbonates from the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implications for oxygenation of coeval shallow seawater. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 110-127.

144. Lu, M., Zhu, M.*, Zhang, J., Shields, G.A., Li, G., Zhao, F., Zhao, X., Zhao, M., The DOUNCE event at the top of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China: Wide stratigraphic occurrence and non-diagenetic origin. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 86-109. 

145. Shields-Zhou, G., Zhu, M., Biogeochemical changes across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 1-6.

146. Yin, Z., Zhu, M. *, Tafforeau, P., Chen, J., Li, G., Liu, P., Early Embryogenesis of Potential Bilaterian Animals with Polar Lobe Formation from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota, South China. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 44-57.

147. Zhao, F., Bottjer, D.J., Hu, S., Yin, Z., Zhu, M.*, Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems. Scientific Reports, 3 (2013), 2751.

148. Zhu, M., Lu, M., Zhang, J., Zhao, F., Li, G., Zhao, X., Zhao, M., Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and sedimentary facies evolution of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in western Hubei, South China. Precambrian Research, 225 (2013), 7-28.

2012

149. Fatka, V., Steiner, M., Weber, B., Zhu, M., The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (2012), 67-70.

150. Hu, S., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Luo, H., Forchielli, A., Keup, H., Zhao, F., Liu, Q., A new priapulid assemblage from the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstätte of SW China. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (2012), 93-106.

151. Li, G., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Zhao, X., Early Cambrian eodiscicoid trilobite Hubeidiscus orientalis from South China: Ontogeny and implications for affinities of Mongolitubulus-like sclerites. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (2012), 159-169. 

152. Lu, M., Zhu, M.*, Zhao, F., Revisiting the Tianjiayuanzi section - the stratotype section of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Yangtze Gorges, South China. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (2012), 183-194.

153. Yin, Z., Zhu, M.*, New observations of the ornamented Doushantuo embryo fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an biota, South China. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (2012), 171-181.

154. Zhao, F. Hu S., Caron, J.-B., Zhu, M., Yin, Z., Lu, M., Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 346-347 (2012), 54-65. 

155. Zhao, Y., Zhu, M., Peng, J., Yuan, J., Parsley, R.L., Babcock, L., Yang, R., Yin, L., yang, X., Lin, J.-P., Sun, H., Tai, T., The Kaili Biota: An informal review commemorating the 30^th anniversary of its discovery. In: Zhao, Y. et al. (eds.), Cryogenian – Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29 (Suppl.) (2012), 1-9.

156. Zhu, M., Yin, Z., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation and the Weng’an Biota in the shallow water facies of the Yangtze Platform, Beidoushan, Weng’an County, Guizhou. In: Zhao, Y. et al. (eds.), Cryogenian – Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29 (Suppl.) (2012), 66-76.

157. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, A., Yang, X., Lu, M., Ediacaran succession and the Wenghui Biota in the deep-water facies of the Yangtze Platform at Wenghui, Jiangkou County, Guizhou. In: Zhao, Y. et al. (eds.), Cryogenian – Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29 (Suppl.) (2012), 133-138. 

158. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, A., Zhao, F., Tai, T., Neoproterozoic and Cambrian successions in the slope facies of the Yangtze Platform at Wuhe, Jianghe County, Guizhou. In: Zhao, Y. et al. (eds.), Cryogenian – Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29 (Suppl.) (2012), 98-107.

159. 彭善池,汪啸风,肖书海,童金南,华洪,朱茂炎, 赵元龙, 建议在我国统一使用全球通用的正式年代地层单位——埃迪卡拉系(纪)。地层学杂志，36 (2012), 57-61。

160. 赵方臣,朱茂炎, 胡世学, 不同生活方式的物种对快速沉积埋藏事件的反应—来自寒武纪早期澄江生物群中的证据。古生物学报, 51(3) (2012), 265-280。

2011

161. Li, G., Zhao, X., Gobanov, A., Zhu, M., Early Cambrian mollusk Watsonella crosbyi: A potential index fossil for the base of the Cambrian Stage 2. Acta Geologica Sinica, 85 (2011), 309-319.

162. Li, G., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Animal skeletons advent. In: Reitner, J. & Thiel, V. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geobiology, (2011), 367-378. Amsterdam: Springer.

163. Yuan, J., Zhu, X., Lin, J., Zhu, M., Tentative correlation of Cambrian Series 2 between South China and other continents. Bulletin of Geosciences, 86 (2011), 397-404.

164. Zhu, M., Wang, H., Neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites of the Tarim Block, NW China. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P. & Shields-Zhou, G. (eds) The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 36 (2011), 367–378.

165. 殷宗军，朱茂炎*，瓮安生物群中“内陷式动物原肠胚化石”的同步辐射无损成像及其亲缘关系的重新解释。科技导报，29(26) (2011), 18-24。

2010

166. Hu, S. X., Zhu, M. Y., Steiner, M., Luo, H. L., Zhao, F. C., Liu, Q., Biodiversity and taphonomy of the early Cambrian Guanshan biota, eastern Yunnan. Sci China Earth Sci, 53 (2010), 1765–1773.

胡世学，朱茂炎，Steiner, M., 罗惠麟，赵方臣，刘琪, 关山生物群构成及埋藏学研究进展。中国科学：地球科学，40(9) (2010)，1115-1124。

167. Shen, S. Z., Zhu, M. Y., Wang, X. D., Li, G. X., Cao, C. Q., Zhang, H., A comparison of the biological, geological events and environmental backgrounds between the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian and Permian-Triassic transitions. Sci China Earth Sci, 53 (2010), 1873–1884.

沈树忠，朱茂炎，王向东，李国祥，曹长群，张华，新元古代-寒武纪与二叠-三叠纪转折时期生物和地质事件及其环境背景之比较。中国科学：地球科学，40(9) (2010)，1228-1240。

168. Van Iten, H., Zhu, M., Li, G., Redescription of Haxaconularia He and Yang, 1986 (Lower Cambrian, South China): Implications for the affinities of conulariid-like small shelly fossils. Palaeontology, 53 (2010), 191-199.

169. Zhao, F. C., Zhu, M. Y.*, Hu, S. X., Community structure and composition of the Cambrian Chengjiang biota. Sci China Earth Sci, 53 (2010), 1784–1799.

赵方臣，朱茂炎*，胡世学，云南寒武纪澄江动物群古群落分析。中国科学：地球科学，40(9) (2010)，1135-1153。

170. 罗翠，朱茂炎，华北地台前寒武纪“后生动物化石”评述。古生物学报，49(3) (2010)， 288-307。

171. 阎斌，朱祥坤，唐索寒，朱茂炎，广西新元古代BIF的铁同位素特征及其地质意义。地质学报，84 (7) (2010)，1080-1086。

172. 杨兴莲，赵元龙，朱茂炎，崔滔，杨凯迪，贵州丹寨寒武系牛蹄塘组海绵动物化石及其环境背景。古生物学报，49(3) (2010)，348-359。

173. 杨兴莲，赵元龙，朱茂炎，吴维义，杨凯迪，贵州寒武系九门冲组和渣拉沟组中的海绵骨针化石。微体古生物学报，27(3) (2010)，243-252。

174. 殷宗军，朱茂炎*，贵州新元古代瓮安生物群中动物胚胎化石研究进展。 科技导报，28(6) (2010)，103-111。

175. 殷宗军，朱茂炎*，新元古代磷酸盐化外包型腔原肠胚化石在瓮安生物群中的发现。古生物学报，49(3) (2010)，325-335。

176. 朱茂炎，动物的起源和寒武纪大爆发。见：10000个科学难题—地球科学卷。科学出版社。（2010），186-190。

177. 朱茂炎，动物的起源和寒武纪大爆发：来自中国的化石证据。古生物学报，49(3) (2010)，269-287。

178. 朱茂炎，寒武纪大爆发。中国古生物学会主编：古生物学科学发展报告。中国科学技术出版社。(2010)，39-46。

2009

179. Zhao, F., Caron, J.-B., Hu, S., Zhu, M.*, Quantitative analysis of taphofacies and paleocommunities in the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Palaios, 24 (2009), 926-839.

180. 吕苗，朱茂炎，赵美娟，湖北宜昌茅坪泗溪剖面埃迪卡拉系岩石地层和碳同位素地层研究。地层学杂志，33 (2009)，359-372。

181. 阎斌，朱祥坤，唐索寒，朱茂炎，广西三江地区富禄组条带状铁建造的铁同位素初步研究。矿物学报，83 (增刊) (2009)，617-619。

182. 殷宗军，朱茂炎*，肖体乔，同步辐射X射线相衬显微CT在古生物学中的应用。物理，38(7) (2009)，504-510。

183. 朱茂炎，揭秘动物起源和寒武纪大爆发的历史过程以及地球环境背景。见：沙金庚(主编)：世纪飞跃—辉煌的中国古生物学，纪念中国古生物学会成立80周年。科学出版社。(2009)，81-95。

2008

184. Jiang, S.-Y., Zhao, K.-D., Li, L., Ling, H.-F., Zhu, M.-Y., Highly metalliferous carbonaceous shale and Early Cambrian seawater: COMMENT and REPLY. Geology, 35 (2008), e158-e159. doi: 10.1130/G24437C.1

185. Rozanov, A. Yu.m, Zhu, M., Pak, K.L., Parkhaev, P. Yu., The second Sino – Russian Symposium on the Lower Cambrian Subdivision. Palaeontological Journal, 42 (2008), 441-446.

186. Zhu, M., Gehling, J. G., Xiao, S., Zhao, Y., Droser, M. L., Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia. Geology, 36 (2008), 867-870.

187. 蒋少涌，凌洪飞，赵葵动，朱茂炎，杨竟红，陈永权，华南寒武纪早期牛蹄塘组黑色岩系中Ni-Mo多金属硫化物矿层的Mo同位素组成讨论。岩石矿物学杂志，27(4) (2008),1-5。

188. 钱逸，李国祥，朱茂炎，Steiner, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., 冯伟民，蒋志文，论中国早寒武世原牙形类和牙形状化石*——分类评述和地层意义。微体古生物学报，25 (4) (2008)，307-315.

189. 杨爱华，朱茂炎，张俊明，皖南、浙西寒武系黄柏岭组和荷塘组的年代地层学研究。地层学杂志，32 (2008)，343-352。

190. 杨兴莲，朱茂炎，赵元龙，张俊明，郭庆军，皮道会, 黔东震旦系—下寒武统黑色岩系稀土元素地球化学特征。地质论评, 54 (2008)，1-15。

191. 殷宗军，朱茂炎*，贵州埃迪卡拉纪瓮安生物群化石含量统计分析。古生物学报，47(4) (2008)，477-487。

2007

192. Guo, Q., Shields, G. A., Liu, C., Strauss, H., Zhu, M., Pi, D., Goldberg T., Yang, X., Fu, P., Trace element chemostratigraphy of two Ediacaran - Cambrian successions in South China: implications for organosedimentary metal enrichment and silicification. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 194-216.

193. Guo, Q., Strauss, H., Liu, C., Goldberg T., Zhu, M., Heubeck, C., Pi, D., Vernhet E., Yang, X., Fu, P., Carbon isotopic evolution of the terminal Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian: evidence from the Yangtze Platform, South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 140-157.

194. Hu, S., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Erdtmann,B.-D., Luo, H., Chen, L., Weber, B., Diverse pelagic predators from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and the establishment of modern-style pelagic ecosystems in the early Cambrian. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 307-316.

195. Steiner, M., Li, G., Qian, Y., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 67-99.

196. Vannier, J., Caron, J.-B., Yuan,J.-L., Briggs, D. E. G., Collins,D., Zhao, Y.-L., Zhu, M.-Y., Tuzoia: morphology and lifestyle of a large bivalved arthropod of the Cambrian seas. Journal of Paleontology, 81 (2007), 445-471.

197. Vernhet, E., Heubeck, E.C., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang, J.-M., Stratigraphic reconstruction of the Ediacaran Yangtze platform margin (Hunan province, China) from margin-originated large-scale olistolith. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 123-139.

198. Weber, B., Steiner; M., Zhu, M.-Y., Precambrian-Cambrian trace fossils from the Yangtze Platform (South China) and the early evolution of bilaterian lifestyles Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 328-349.

199. Yang, X., Zhu, M., Guo, Q., Zhao, Y., Organic carbon isotopes of the Sinian and Early Cambrian black shales on eastern Guizhou Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 81(2) (2007), 194–203.

200. Yin, L., Zhu, M., Knoll, A. H., Yuan, X., Zhang, J., Hu, J., Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts. Nature, 446 (2007), 661-663.

201. Zhu, M., Park, K.L., Babcock, L.E., Rozanov, A. Yu., Chinese – Russian Symposium on the Lower Cambrian Stratigraphy. Palaeontological Journal, 41 (2007), 227-228.

202. Zhu, M., Strauss, H., Shields, G. A., From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian Earth history in South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 1-6.

203. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, A., Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) Chronostratigraphy of South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 254 (2007), 7-61.

204. 杨兴莲，朱茂炎，赵元龙，毛永琴，王宇轩，贵州剑河中寒武世中期甲劳组水母状化石的发现。古生物学报，46(2) (2007)，232-237。

205. 杨兴莲，朱茂炎，赵元龙，张俊明，郭庆军，李丙霞, 黔东前寒武纪－寒武纪转换时期微量元素地球化学特征研究。地质学报, 81 (2007)，1391-1397。

206. 赵方臣，朱茂炎*，早寒武世澄江化石库中两种埋藏相的化石定量分析。古生物学报，46 (2007), 75-86。

2006

207. Guo, Q., Liu, C., Strauss, H., Goldberg, T., Zhu, M., and Pi, D., Organic Carbon Isotope Geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 80 (5) (2006), 741-754.

208. Vernhet, E., Heubeck, C., Zhu, M.Y., and Zhang, J.M., Large-scale slope instability at the southern margin of the Ediacaran Yangtze platform (Hunan Province, Central China). Precambrian Research, 148 (2006), 32-44.

209. Zhu, M.Y., Babcock, L. E., and Peng, S.C, Advances in Cambrian Stratigraphy and paleontology: Integrating correlation techniques, palaeobiology, taphonomy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Palaeoworld, 15 (2006), 217-222.

210. 李国祥，Steiner M，钱逸，朱茂炎，Erdtmann B-D， 华南寒武纪早期骨骼动物的爆发性辐射。 见: 戎嘉余(主编), 生物的起源、辐射与多样性演变—华夏化石记录的启示。北京: 科学出版社，(2006)，41-57，831-834。

211. 朱茂炎, 地球动物世界的诞生—评陈均远《动物世界的黎明》。科技导报，24(5) (2006)，89。（书评）

2005

212. Condon, D., Zhu, M., Bowring, S., Wang, W., Yang, A., Jin, Y., U-Pb Ages from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China. Science, 308 (2005), 95-98.

213. Steiner M., Zhu, M., Zhao, Y., & Erdtmann, B.-D., Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 220 (2005), 129-152.

214. Van Iten, H., Vyhlasova, Z., Zhu, M.-Y., Qian, Y., Widespread occurrence of microscopic pores in conulariids. Journal of Paleontology, 79(2) (2005), 193-200.

215. Wu, W., Yang, A.-H., Janussen, D., Steiner, M., Zhu, M.-Y., Hexactinellid sponges from the Early Cambrian black shale of South Anhui, China. Journal of Paleontology, 79(6) (2005), 1043-1051.

216. Zhao, Y., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Babcock, L. E., Peng, J., Wang, Y., Yang, X., Guo, Q., Yang, R., Tai, T., Balang section, Guizhou, China: stratotype section for the Taijiang Stage and candidate for GSSP of an unnamed Cambrian series. (2005), 62-83. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300.

217. Zhao, Y., Zhu, M., Babcock, L. E., Yuan, J., Parsley, R., Peng, J., Yang, X., Wang, Y., Kaili Biota: A taphonomic window on diversification of metazoans from the basal Middle Cambrian, Guizhou, China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 79 (2005), 751-765.

218. Zhu, M., Babcock, L., Steiner, M., Fossilization modes in the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Cambrian of China): testing the role of organic preservation and diagenetic alteration in exceptional preservation. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 220 (2005), 31-46.

219. Zhu, M., Li, G., Hu, S., Zhao, F., Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary stratigraphy at Meishucun, Jinning County, and fossil quarries of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota near Haikou, Kunming city, Yunnan, China. (2005), 13-29. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300.

220. Zhu, M., Li, G., Zhang, J., Yang, A., Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary section at Zhujiaqing, near Dahai, Huize County, Yunnan, China: potential stratotype section for subdivision of the first series of the Cambrian. (2005), 37-44. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300. 

221. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary sections and Early Cambrian Chengjiang nonmineralized fossils in eastern Yunnan Province, southwestern China: Introduction. (2005), 1-12. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300.

222. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Guo, Q., Yang, X., Toushantuo Formation and the Weng’an Biota (Ediacaran), Weng’an County, Guizhou Province, China. (2005), 84-94. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300.

223. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., The Chengjiang Biota: an Early Cambrian nonmineralized fossil biota in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. (2005), 30-36. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300.

224. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Yang, A., Tai, T., Cryogenian, Ediacaran, and Cambrian stratigraphy in deep-water facies of the Yangtze Platform at Wuhe, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, China. (2005), 45-54. In Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock, and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of China and Korea. Guide to Field Excursions. University of Science and Technology of China Press. Hefei: 1-300.

225. 杨爱华，朱茂炎，张俊明，扬子地台早寒武世古盘虫类的时空分布及其古地理环境控制。古地理学报，7 (2005)，219-232。

226. 杨兴莲，赵元龙，朱茂炎，贵州下寒武统牛蹄塘生物群海绵新材料。古生物学报，44 (2005)，454-463。

227. 杨兴莲，朱茂炎，赵元龙，王约，贵州寒武纪海绵动物化石组合特征。微体古生物学报，22(3) (2005)，295-303。

2004

228. Erdtmann, B.-D., Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Walde, D., The “arms race” of early metazoan life after the terminal Proterozoic global ice age. Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften, 32 (2004), 293-317.

229. Li, G., Zhu, M., Steiner, M., Qian, Y., Skeletal faunas from the Qiongzhusian of southern Shaanxi: implications for biodiversity and lithofacies-biofacies links in the Lower Cambrian carbonate settings. Progress in Natural Science, 14(1) (2004), 91-96.

230. Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Van Iten, H., Li, C.-W., Lower Cambrian Sphenothallus Hall from southern Shaanxi, China. Geobios, 37 (2004), 229-237.

231. Qian, Y., Li, G., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Steiner, M., Early Cambrian protoconodonts and conodont-like fossils of China: Taxonomic revisions and stratigraphic implication. Progress in Natural Science, 14 (2004), 173-180.

232. Steiner, M., Li, G., Qian, Y., Zhu, M., Lower Cambrian small shelly fossils of N. Sichuan and S. Shaanxi (China) and their biostratigraphic relevance. Geobios, 37 (2004), 259-275.

233. Steiner, M., Zhu, M., Li, G., Erdtmann, B.-D., New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China. Geology, 32(10) (2004), 833-836.

234. Zhang, J., Zhu, M., Yang, A., Li, G., Heubeck, C., Vernhet, E., Erdtmann, B.-D., Stratigraphic implications of Sinian - Early Cambrian volcanic ash beds on the Yangtze Platform. Progress in Natural Science, 14(1) (2004), 71-76.

235. Zhu, M., Biological and geological processes of the Cambrian explosion: Evidence from the Yangtze Platform of South China. Introduction. In: M. Zhu and M. Steiner (eds.), Biological and Geological Processes of the Cambrian Explosion. Progress in Natural Science, Special Issue 2004 (2004), p. V-X.

236. Zhu, M.-Y., Vannier, J., Van Iten, H., Zhao, Y.-L., Direct evidence for predation on trilobites in the Cambrian. Proceedings of Royal Society, London B, 271 (2004), S277-S280.

237. Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang J.-M., Li G.-X., Yang A.-H., Evolution of C isotopes in the Cambrian of China: implications for Cambrian subdivision and trilobite mass extinctions. Geobios, 37 (2004), 287-310.

2003

238. Chen, A., Feng, H., Zhu, M., Ma, D., Li, M., A new Vetulicolian from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna in Yunnan of China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 77 (2003), 281-287.

239. Li, G., Zhu, M., Steiner, M., Microstructures and functional morphology of the Early Cambrian problematic fossil Rhombocorniculum. Progress in Natural Science, 13 (2003), 831-835。

李国祥，朱茂炎，Michael Steiner,早寒武世疑难化石Rhombocorniculum的刺壁微细结构及形态功能分析。自然科学进展，13 (2003)，881-884。

240. Steiner, M., Li, G., Qian, Y., Zhu, M., Erdtmann, B.-D., Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Faunas from Zhejiang (China) and their biostratigraphical implications. Progress in Natural Science, 13(10) (2003), 852-860.

241. Weber, B., Zhu, M., Arthropod trace fossils from the Zhujiaqing Formation (Meishucunian, Yunnan), and their palaeonbiological implications. Progress in Natural Science, 13(10) (2003), 795-800.

242. Yang, A., Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their stratigraphic implications. Progress in Natural Science, 13(11) (2003), 861-866.

243. Zhao, Y., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Yang, X., Peng, J., The occurrence of the genus Marrella (Trilobitoidea) in Asia. Progress in Natural Science, 13 (2003), 708-711.

赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，杨兴莲，彭进，Marrella (马尔三叶形虫)在中国台江的发现。自然科学进展，12 (2002)，1216-1219。

244. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Steiner, M., Yang, A., Li, G., Erdtmann, Bernd-D., Sinian and Early Cambrian stratigraphic frameworks from shallow- to deep-water facies of the Yangtze Platform: an integrated approach. Progress in Natural Science, 13(12) (2003), 951-960.

245. 钱逸，李国祥，朱茂炎，尹恭正，新建乌什下寒武统肖尔布拉克组软舌螺化石。微体古生物学报，20 (2003), 342-349。

2002

246. Janussen, D., Steiner, M., Zhu, M.-Y., New well-preserved scleritomes of Chancelloriidae from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang (China) and the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale (USA) lagerstätten and its paleobiological implications. Journal of Paleontology, 76 (2002), 596-606.

247. Qian, Y., Zhu, M.-Y., Li, G.-X., Jiang, Z.-W., Van Iten, H., A supplemental Precambrian-Cambrian boundary global stratotype section in SW China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 41(1) (2002), 19-26.

248. Van Iten, H., Zhu, M.-Y., Collins, D., First report of Sphenothallus Hall in the Middle Cambrian. Journal of Paleontology, 76 (2002), 902-905.

249. Zhao, Y., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Yang, R., Guo, Q., Peng, J., Yang, X., Progress and significance in research on the early Middle Cambrian Kaili Biota, Guizhou Province, China. Progress in Natural Science, 12 (2002), 649-654.

赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，杨瑞东，郭庆军，彭进，杨兴莲，贵州台江中寒武世凯里生物群研究的新进展。自然科学进展，12 (2002)，685-690。

250. Zhu, M.-Y., Zhao, Y.-L., Chen, J.-Y., Revision of the Cambrian medusiform animals Stellostomites eumorphus Sun et Hou and Pararotadiscus guizhouensis (Zhao et Zhu) from South China. Geobios, 35 (2002), 165-185.

251. 朱茂炎，生命演化和寒武纪大爆发。喻纬主编：最新科技进展报告。江苏教育出版社。(2002)，80-95.

2001

252. Li, G.-X., Zhang, J.-M., Zhu, M.-Y., Litho- and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in the Xiaotan section, eastern Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 40-53.

253. Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Discrete sclerites of Microdictyon (Lower Cambrian) from the Fucheng section, Nanzheng, south Shaanxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 227-235.

254. Peng, S.-C., Lin, T.-R., Van Iten, H., Zhu, M.-Y., Lin, H.-L., Primitive ptychoparioids from southern Anhui Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 236-241.

255. Qian, Y., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., The Meishucunian Stage and its small shelly fossil sequences in China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 54-62.

256. Steiner, M., Zhu, M.-Y., Weber, B., Geyer, G., The Lower Cambrian in eastern Yunnan: trilobite-based biostratigraphy and related faunas. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 63-79.

257. Wang, H.-F., Zhang, J.-M., Hu, S.-X., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Wang, W., Luo, H.-L., Litho and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Yu’anshan Formation near the Village Ercaicun, Haikou County, eastern Yunnan Province, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 106-114.

258. Yuan, K.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang, J.-M., Van Iten, H., Biostratigraphy of archaeocyathans horizons in the Lower Cambrian Fucheng section: Implications for regional correlations and archaeocyathan evolution. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 115-129.

259. Zhang, J.-M., Li, G.-X., Zhu, M.-Y., Yang, A.-H., Middle and Upper Cambrian slope deposits in the Wa’ergang section, Taoyuan County, northwestern Hunan Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 173-200.

260. Zhao, Y., Yang, R., Yuan, J., Zhu, M., Guo, Q., Yang, X., Tai, T., Cambrian Stratigraphy at Balang, Guizhou Province, China: Candidate Section for a Global Unnamed Series and Stratotype Section for the Taijiangian Stage. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 189-208.

261. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Hu, S., Wang, H., Li, G., The Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: New quarry and discoveries near Ercaicun, Haikou Town, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 236-238.

262. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., The Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: Quarries of nonmineralized fossils at Maotianshan and Ma’anshan, Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 219-225.

263. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Qian, Y., Sinian-Cambrian Boundary Stratigraphy at Gezhongwu, Zhijing County, Guizhou Province, China: Phosphorite and Small Shelly Fossils. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 209-215.

264. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Steiner, M., Li, G., Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Stratigrpaphy at Meishucun, Yunnan province, China: Base of the Cambrian and the First Appearance of trilobites. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 226-235.

265. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Yang, A., Tai, T., Sinian-Cambrian Stratigraphy at Wuhe, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, China: Interval from the Neoproterozoic Tilite to the Upper Cambrian dolostone. In: Peng Shanchi, Loren E. Babcock and Zhu Maoyan (eds.), Cambrian System of South China. Palaeoworld, 13 (2001), 182-188.

266. Zhu, M.-Y., Li, G.-X., Zhang, J.-m., Steiner, M., Qian, Y., Jiang, Z.-w., Early Cambrian Stratigrapgy of East Yunnan, Southwestern China: A Synthesis. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 4-39.

267. Zhu, M.-Y., Zhang, J.-M., Li, G.-X., Sedimentary environments of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota: Sedimentology of the Yu’anshan Formation in Chengjiang County, eastern Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40(sup.) (2001), 80-105. 

268. Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Li, G., New C isotope stratigraphy from southwest China: Implications for the placement of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Yangtze Platform and global correlations: Comment. Geology, 29 (2001), 871-872.

2000

269. Van Iten, H., Zhu, Z.-K., Zhu, M.-Y., Anatomy and systematics of the Devonian conulariids Changshaconus Zhu, 1985 and Rectoconularia Babcock et Feldmann, 1986. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 39(4) (2000), 466-475.

270. Zhu, M.-Y., Van Iten, H., Cox, R., Zhao, Y.-L., Erdtmann, Bernd-D., Occurrence of Byronia MATTHEW and Sphenothallus HALL in the Lower Cambrian of China.  Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 74(3) (2000), 227-238.

271. 钱逸, 朱茂炎, 蒋志文，扬子地台早古生代软舌螺化石记述。微体古生物学报，17(4) (2000)，353-361。

272. 钱逸, 朱茂炎, 李国祥, 陈孟莪， 再论织金壳类(Zhijinitids)的亲缘关系。微体古生物学报，17(3) (2000)，307-316。

273. 朱茂炎，从海口虫的发现谈脊椎动物的起源。徐均涛主编：中学生探索学习丛书——进化长河，江苏科学技术出版社。(2000)，39-44。（科普文章）

274. 朱茂炎，轰动全球的澄江生物群。徐均涛主编：中学生探索学习丛书——进化长河，江苏科学技术出版社。(2000)，31-38。（科普文章）

275. 朱茂炎，李学森，吉林南部浑江地区早陶世亮家山组中的大型短粗壳内角石类。古生物学报，39(3) (2000)，369-380。

1999

276. 赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，郭庆军，周 震，杨瑞东, Van Iten, H.， 贵州台江早寒武世台江生物群。古生物学报，38(增刊) (1999)，108-117。

277. 赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，杨瑞东，郭庆军，钱 逸，黄友庄，潘 玉，贵州中寒武世早期凯里生物群研究的新进展。古生物学报，38(增刊) (1999)，1-14。

278. 赵元龙，朱茂炎, 郭庆军，Van Iten, H., 贵州台江中寒武世凯里生物群中的蠕形动物化石。古生物学报，38(增刊) (1999)，79-87。

279. 朱茂炎，Erdtmann, B. D., 赵元龙, 贵州中寒武世凯里化石库的埋藏学和生态学初步研究。古生物学报, 38(增刊) (1999)，28-57。

280. 朱茂炎，钱 逸，蒋志文，何廷贵，茅永强， 小壳化石保存、壳壁成分和显微构造。钱 逸主编，《中国寒武纪小壳化石和地层学》，第三章，(1999)，60-72。科学出版社。

1998

281. 赵元龙，袁金良，朱茂炎，黄友庄，郭庆军，杨瑞东，周震，贵州台江早寒武世台江动物群的发现及意义。贵州工业大学学报，27(5)(1998)，23-26。

1997

282. Dzik, J., Zhao, Y.-L., & Zhu, M.-Y., Mode of life of the Middle Cambrian eldonioid lophophorate Rotadiscus. Palaeontology, 40(2) (1997), 385-396.

283. Zhang, J., Li, G., Zhou, C., Zhu, M., Yu, Z., Carbon Isotope Profiles and Their Correlation across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Boundary Interval on the Yangtze Platform, China. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10 (1997), 107-116.

284. Zhang, J., Yu, Z., Zhu, M., Zhou, C., Li, G., Metabentonites from Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Eastern Yunnan, China and their implications. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10 (1997), 161-173.

285. Zhu, M., Precambrian-Cambrian Trace Fossils from Eastern Yunnan: Implications for Cambrian Explosion. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science, 10 (1997), 275-312.

286. 钱逸，H. V. 伊顿，R. S. 柯克斯，朱茂炎，卓二军，记述原始锥石类中的一个新属种Emeiconularia trigemme gen. et sp. nov.。微体古生物学报，14 (1997)，475-488。

1996

287. 钱 逸，朱茂炎，何延贵，蒋志文，再论滇东地区前寒武系与寒武系界线剖面。微体古生物学报，13(3) (1996)，225-240。

288. 朱茂炎，钱逸，蒋志文，何延贵，小壳化石的保存、壳壁成份和微细构造初探。微体古生物学报，13(3) (1996)，241-254。

289. 朱茂炎，李学森，吉林南部早奥陶世珠角石类。古生物学报，35(3) (1996)，349-365。

1995

290. Chen, J.-Y., Zhu, M.-Y., Zhou, G.-Q., The Early Cambrian medusiform metazoan Eldonia from the Chenjiang Lagerstätte. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 40(3) (1995), 213-244.

1994

291. 赵元龙，朱茂炎，贵州台江凯里动物群中的水母状化石。古生物学报，33(3) (1994)，272-280。

1993

292. 朱茂炎，特异化石库的形成及其对古生物学的贡献—以滇东早寒武世澄江特异化石库为例。全国首届新学说新观点学术讨论会论文集(生命科学)，中国科学技术出版社，(1993)，285-301。