Early evolution of sponges (Phylum Porifera)

Life-environment co-evolution at the Ediacaran-Cambrian transitional interval

2015.02: Dr. rar. nat. in Geosciences, Georg-August University of Göttingen

2011.07: Master in Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2008.07: Bachelor in Geology (Paleontology), Nanjing University, China

   

Since 2018.02: Research associate (associate professor) in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015.06: Research assistant in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology

Luo, C* and Miao, L (2020) A Horodyskia-Nenoxites-dominated fossil assemblage from the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition (Liuchapo Formation, Hunan Province): Its paleontological implications and stratigraphic potential. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 545, 109635. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109635.

Luo, C*, Zhao, F and Zeng, H (2020) The first report of a vauxiid sponge from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota. Journal of Paleontology 94, 28–33.

Luo, C and Reitner, J* (2019) Three-dimensionally preserved stem-group hexactinellid sponge fossils from lower Cambrian (Stage 2) phosphorites of China. PalZ 93, 187–194.

Luo C*, Pan B, Reitner J (2017) Chambered structures from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Yunnan, China: comparison with the Cryogenian analogues and their microbial interpretation. Geological Magazine, 154(6): 1269–1284.

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

Luo C*, Reitner J (2016) “Stromatolites” built by sponges and microbes – a new type of Phanerozoic bioconstruction. Lethaia, 49:555–570.

Luo C, Reitner J* (2014) First report of fossil "keratose" demosponges in Phanerozoic carbonates: preservation and 3-D reconstruction. Naturwissenschaften, 101(6):467–77.

Luo C*, Schäfer N, Duda J-P, Li L-X (2014) Preservation of organic matter in sponge fossils: a case study of “round sponge fossils” from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota with Raman spectroscopy. Göttingen Contributions to Geosciences, 77: 29–38.

Luo, C and Reitner, J* (2019) Three-dimensionally preserved stem-group hexactinellid sponge fossils from lower Cambrian (Stage 2) phosphorites of China. PalZ 93, 187–194.Reitner J, Luo C, Duda J-P (2012) Early sponge remains from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian phosphate deposits of the Fontanarejo area (Central Spain). 17th Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy & Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Kaili Biota.Guizhou. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Sciences), 29 (Sup. 1): 184-18 (extended abstract）

Luo C, Zhu M-Y. (2010) A brief review of the Precambrian “metazoan fossils” from North China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 49 (3): 288-307. (in Chinese)