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Part One  Nature of Cambrian Explosion
  1. Cambrian Explosion: Birth of Tree of Animals
  2. Birth and Early Evolution of Metazoans
Part Two  Subkingdom Deuterostomia
  3. Lower Cambrian Vertebrates from South China
  4. Catching the First Fish
  5. Head and Backbone of the Early Cambrian Vertebrate Haikouichthys
  5. A Paleontological Perspective of Vertebrate Origin
  7. Primitive Deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte (Lower Cambrian,China)
  8. On Being Vetulicolian
  9. A Pipiscid-like Fossil from the Lower Cambrian of South China
  10. On the Phylum Vetulicolia
  11. Deuterostome Evolution
  12. Evidence for Gill Slits and a Pharynx in Cambrian Vetulicolians: Implications for the Early Evolution of Deuterostomes
  13. The Earliest History of the Deuterostomes : the Importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte
  14. Ancestral Echinoderms from the Chengjiang Deposits of China
  15. Echinoderm Roots
  16. An Early Cambrian Tunicate from China
  17. A Pikaia-like Chordate from the Lower Cambrian of China
  18. Reinterpretation of Yunnanozoon as the Earliest Known Hemichordate
  19. A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution
  20. Response to Comment on "A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution"
Part Three  Subkingdom Protostomia
  21. Redlichiacean Trilobites with Preserved Soft-parts from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna( South China) (Excerpt)
  22. Reconsideration of the Supposed Naraoiid Larva from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China
  23. Anatomy and Systematic Affinities of the Lower Cambrian Bivalved Arthropod Isoxys Auritus
  24. A Venomous Arthropod in the Early Cambrian Sea
  25. Cambrian Palaeobiogeography of Bradoriida
  25. Anatomy and Lifestyle of Kunmingella (Arthropoda, Bradoriida) from the Chengiiang Fossil Lagerstatte (Lower Cambrian: Southwest China)
  27. A Rare Lobopod with Well-preserved Eyes from Chengjiang Lagerstatte and Its Implications for Origin of Arthropods
  28. An Armoured Cambrian Lobopodian from China with Arthropod-like Appendages
  29. Cambrian Lobopodians and Extant Onychophorans Provide New Insights into Early Cephalization in Panarthropoda
  30. The Earliest-known Ancestors of Recent Priapulomorpha from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte
  31. Soft-tissue Preservation in the Lower Cambrian Linguloid Brachiopod from South China
  32. Rhynchonelliformean Brachiopods with Soft-tissue Preservation from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte of South China
  33. A Sclerite-bearing Stem Group Entoproct from the Early Cambrian and Its Implications
Part Four  Basic Animals
  34. Lower Cambrian Vendobionts from China and Early Diploblast Evolution
  35. Early Cambrian Pentamerous Cubozoan Embryos from South China
 

 

 

 

 

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Publisher:  Northwest University Press,  Xi'an, China
Edition:      The first  edition

Professor Degan SHU received his undergraduate training in Paleontology at Peking (Beijing) University in 1964-1969,  Master  degree  in  Northwest University (Xi'an) and  Ph. D in China University of Geosciences (Beijing); as visiting scholar in Smithsonian Institution,Washington,  D.C.,  USA  in  1988,Humboldt research fellow in University of Bonn in 1988-1989 and in University of Wuerzburg, Germany in 1994-1995, visiting scholar in Cambridge University, UK in 1998, was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of'Sciences in 2011.
     His research mainly focuses on the evolution of early deuterostomes and Cambrian  Explosion.  He  discovered "the First Fish" Myllokunmingiida in life history, erected the extinct Phylum Vetulicolia, first proposed the concept of hypothesis "Cambrian Explosion as the unique three-episode event to create the Tree of Animals" in 2008. As a recipient of National First Grade Award of Natural Sciences, he has authored a dozen of publications in Nature and Science.