Personal Information
Name: Huiting WU
Title: Associate Professor
Email：hattie@cumtb.edu.cn
Research Interests
(1) Relationship between environmental changes and biological evolution in fossil record, mass extinctions and the processes that control subsequent recovery of biodiversity and global ecosystem;
(2) brachiopod taxonomy, morphology, paleoecology and paleobiogeography;
Education/Work Background
2009.09-2013.07，School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), B.Sc.;
2013.09-2018.07，School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Ph.D.；
2016.10-2017.10, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, visiting scholar;
2018.07-2020.07, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, post-doctoral fellow；
2020.07-2023.09, School of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), lecturer；
2023.10-present, School of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), associate Professor；
2023-present, associate editor, Fossil Record, PeerJ;
Teaching Courses
Stratigraphy and Paleontology
Physical Geology
Structural Geology
Key Research Funding
[1] Huiting Wu. Survival mechanism of brachiopod during the Early Triassic in South China. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41902008), 2020-2022, PI;
[2] Huiting Wu. Brachiopod recovery pattern during the Early to Middle Triassic and its driving mechanisms (No. 42372018), 2024-2027, PI;
Selected Publications
[1] Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Anfeng Chen, Thomas L. Stubbs, 2023. A highly diverse Olenekian brachiopod fauna from the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China, and its implications for the Early Triassic biotic recovery. Biology, 12, 622.
[2] Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Anfeng Chen, Pengcheng Zhai, Yuanlin Sun, 2023. Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, late Permian) brachiopod fauna from Guangdong Province, southeastern China: systematics and contribution to the Lopingian recovery. Journal of Paleontology, 97, 112-139.
[3] Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Yuanlin Sun, 2021. A brachiopod fauna from latest Permian to lnduan of northern Guizhou, South China and its evolutionary pattern. Geological Journal, 56, 6189-6198.
[4] Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Jingqi Liu, Yuanlin Sun, 2020. A new Changhsingian (Lopingian) brachiopod fauna of the shallow-water clastic-shelf facies from Fujian Province, southeastern China. Papers in palaeontology, 7, 861-884.
[5] Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Yuanlin Sun, 2020. Changhsingian brachiopod communities along a marine depth gradient in South China and their ecological significance in the latest Permian mass extinction. Lethaia, 53, 515-532.
[6] Huiting Wu, G. R. Shi, Yuanlin Sun, 2019. The latitudinal gradient of shell ornament - A case study from Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopods. Earth-Science Reviews, 197, 102904.
[7] Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Yuanlin Sun, 2019. A mixed Permian-Triassic boundary brachiopod fauna from Guizhou Province, South China. Rivista ltaliana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafla, 125, 627-648.
[8] Huiting Wu, Weihong He, Elizabeth A. Weldon, 2018. Prelude of benthic community collapse during the end-Permian mass extinction in siliciclastic offshore sub-basin: Brachiopod evidence from South China. Global and Planetary Change, 163, 158-170.
[9] Yang Zhang*, Sangmin Lee, Huiting Wu*, Wei-Hong He, 2018. Palaeobiogeographical distribution of Orbiculoidea (Brachiopoda, Discinoidea) responding to global climatic and geographical changes during the Palaeozoic. Palaeontology, 61, 221-234.
[10] Huiting Wu, Weihong He, G. R. Shi, Kexin Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Yang Zhang, Yifan Xiao, Bing Chen, Shunbao Wu, 2017. A new Permian-Triassic boundary brachiopod fauna from the Xinmin section, southwestern Guizhou, south China and its extinction patterns. Alcheringa, 42, 339-372.
[11] Huiting Wu, G. R. Shi, Weihong He, 2017. A quantitative taxonomic review of Fusichonetes and Tethyochonetes (Chonetidina, Brachiopoda). Journal of Paleontology, 91, 1296 1305.
[12] Huiting Wu, Weihong He, Yang Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Yifan Xiao, Bing Chen, Elizabeth A. Weldon, 2016. Palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns and processes of Neochonetes and Fusichonetes (Brachiopoda) in the late Palaeozoic and earliest Mesozoic. Palaeoworld, 25, 508-518.
[13] Anfeng Chen, Yang Zhang, Martyn L. Golding, Huiting Wu, Jingqi Liu, 2023. Upper Changhsingian to lower Anisian conodont biostratigraphy of the Datuguan section, Nanpanjiang Basin, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 616, 111470.
[14] G.R. Shi, Ian Metcalfe, S. Lee, Daoliang Chu, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang, Yuri D. Zakharov, 2022. Marine invertebrate fossils from the Permian–Triassic boundary beds of two core sections in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa, 46, 156-73.
[15] Yang Zhang, G.R. Shi, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang, Weihong He, Aihua Yuan, Yong Lei, 2017. Community replacement, ecological shift and early warning signals prior to the end-Permian mass extinction: A case study from a nearshore clastic-shelf section in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 487, 118-135.
[16] Yang Zhang, Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Kexin Zhang, Huiting Wu, 2015. A new Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Zhongzhai section (South China) Part 3: Productida. Alcheringa, 39, 295-314.
[17] Weihong He, G.R. Shi, Richard J. Twitchett, Yang Zhang, Kexin Zhang, Haijun Song, Shunbao Wu, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang, Yifan Xiao, 2015. Late Permian marine ecosystem collapse began in deeper waters: evidence from brachiopod diversity and body size changes. Geobiology, 13, 123-138.
[18] Tinglu Yang, Weihong He, Kexin Zhang, Shunbao Wu, Yang Zhang, Mingliang Yue, Huiting Wu, Yifan Xiao, 2015. Palaeoecological insights into the Changhsingian-lnduan (latest Permian-earliest Triassic) bivalve fauna at Dongpan, southern Guangxi, South China. Alcheringa, 40, 98-117.