China Vitae

Biography

Jin Yugan, male, Han nationality is a native of Dongyang, Zhejiang province. He graduated from Nanjing University in 1959 and is a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Jin engaged in the study of brachiopod fossils and the carboniferous and permian stratum. He put forward the new international permian stratigraphic time system for replacing the traditional stratigraphic time system used for 150 years. At the same time, he also verified that the Leping Series is the most complete in China. He and his partners studied and put forward that there were actually two periods of biological species extinction and, based upon the statistical analysis of isotopic chronology and defined the time of both extinction events and the catastrophic causes that led to the extinction of species. He published his major work on the paleontology of the brachiopod system and established many new species, emphasizing the systematic evolution, biostratum and paleogeography.