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90
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23176
World Ranking
278
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148

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Shuhai Xiao is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has made substantial contributions to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on paleontology. Their research spans several subfields, including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geology, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Shuhai Xiao has published extensively, with frequent appearances in prominent academic venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Precambrian Research, Journal of Paleontology, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collaboration plays a significant role in their work, with regular co-authors including Ke Pang, Xunlai Yuan, Chuanming Zhou, Alan J. Kaufman, and Benjamin C. Gill.

Recent notable papers include:

  • A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae (2020), published in Precambrian Research
  • Environmental drivers of the first major animal extinction across the Ediacaran White Sea-Nama transition (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Phylotranscriptomic insights into a Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic origin and early radiation of green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae) (2022), published in Nature Communications

In recognition of their work, Shuhai Xiao has been awarded fellowship honors including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019 and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphorite

    Shuhai Xiao;Yun Zhang;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

    Kathleen A. McFadden;Jing Huang;Xuelei Chu;Ganqing Jiang

  • Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635-551Ma) in South China

    Ganqing Jiang;Xiaoying Shi;Shihong Zhang;Yue Wang

  • On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota.

    Shuhai Xiao;Marc Laflamme;Marc Laflamme

  • New constraints on the ages of Neoproterozoic glaciations in south China

    Chuanming Zhou;Robert Tucker;Shuhai Xiao;Zhanxiong Peng

  • MACROSCOPIC CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS IN A TERMINAL PROTEROZOIC SHALE: A SYSTEMATIC REASSESSMENT OF THE MIAOHE BIOTA, SOUTH CHINA

    Shuhai Xiao;Xunlai Yuan;Michael Steiner;Andrew H. Knoll

  • SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age constraints on Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh diamictites in NW China

    Bei Xu;Shuhai Xiao;Haibo Zou;Yan Chen

  • Lichen-like symbiosis 600 million years ago.

    Xunlai Yuan;Shuhai Xiao;T. N. Taylor

  • An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

    Xunlai Yuan;Zhe Chen;Shuhai Xiao;Chuanming Zhou

  • Permineralized fossils from the terminal Proterozoic Doushantuo Formation, south China

    Yun Zhang;Leiming Yin;Shuhai Xiao;Andrew H. Knoll

  • PHOSPHATIZED ANIMAL EMBRYOS FROM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO FORMATION AT WENG'AN, GUIZHOU, SOUTH CHINA

    Shuhai Xiao;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Eumetazoan fossils in terminal proterozoic phosphorites

    Shuhai Xiao;Xunlai Yuan;Andrew Herbert Knoll

  • New Lu–Hf and Pb–Pb age constraints on the earliest animal fossils

    Gry H Barfod;Francis Albarède;Andrew H Knoll;Shuhai Xiao

  • The Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh Group in eastern Chinese Tianshan: evidence for a post-Marinoan glaciation

    Shuhai Xiao;Huiming Bao;Haifeng Wang;Alan J. Kaufman

  • Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

    Brian Kendall;Brian Kendall;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Timothy W. Lyons;Steve M. Bates

  • Ediacaran δ13C chemostratigraphy of South China

    Chuanming Zhou;Chuanming Zhou;Shuhai Xiao

  • The origin of decoupled carbonate and organic carbon isotope signatures in the early Cambrian (ca. 542–520 Ma) Yangtze platform

    Ganqing Jiang;Xinqiang Wang;Xiaoying Shi;Shuhai Xiao

  • Fossil preservation in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo phosphorite Lagerstatte, South China.

    Shuhai Xiao;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Correlation of Precambrian–Cambrian sedimentary successions across northern India and the utility of isotopic signatures of Himalayan lithotectonic zones

    N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Shuhai Xiao

  • Towards an ediacaran time scale: Problems, protocols, and prospects

    Shuhai Xiao;Guy M. Narbonne;Chuanming Zhou;Marc Laflamme

  • Neoproterozoic Fossils in Mesoproterozoic Rocks? Chemostratigraphic Resolution of a Biostratigraphic Conundrum from the North China Platform

    Shuhai Xiao;Andrew H. Knoll;Alan J. Kaufman;Leiming Yin

  • High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils.

    Alan J. Kaufman;Shuhai Xiao;Shuhai Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Xunlai Yuan
Xunlai Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chuanming Zhou
Chuanming Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
James D. Schiffbauer
James D. Schiffbauer University of Missouri
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll Harvard University
Yongbo Peng
Yongbo Peng Tongji University
Marc Laflamme
Marc Laflamme University of Toronto
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
Ganqing Jiang
Ganqing Jiang University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Huiming Bao
Huiming Bao Louisiana State University

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