Dr. Ning Tian (田宁) is a young palaeobotanist of the College of Palaeontology of Shenyang Normal University located in Shenyang city, Liaoning Province, northeastern China.

Ning Tian completed his undergraduate study in Qufu Normal University located in Qufu city, the hometown of great Confucius in Shandong Province, eastern China and got his B.Sc. degree in 2006. He began his graduate study in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006 and got his Ph.D. degree in 2011.

Dr. Tian mainly focuses on the research of the Mesozioc plants and stratra. His recent publications are put below:

Tian Ning, Wang Yongdong, Jiang Zikun, 2008. Permineralized rhizomes of the Osmundaceae (Filicales): Diversity and tempo-spatial distribution pattern. Palaeoworld, 17(3): 183-200.

Tian Ning, Wang Yongdong, Jiang Zikun, 2008. Preliminary study on Late Triassic to Early Jurassic strata and floral variation in Hechuan region of Chongqing，southern Sichuan Basin. Global Geology, 11(3):125-129.

Tian Ning, Wang Yongdong, Jiang Zikun, 2010. Brief report on a new material of Ashicaulis (Osmundaceae, Filicales) from the Middle Jurassic of western Liaoning, NE China. Earth Science Frontiers, 17: 234-236.

Guignard Gaetan, Wang Yongdong, Ni Qing, Tian Ning, Jiang Zikun, 2009. A dipteridaceous fern with in situ spores from the Lower Jurassic in Hubei, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 156: 104–115.

Wang Yongdong, Ni Qing, Jiang Zikun, Tian Ning, 2008. Diversity variation and tempo-spatial distribution of Otozamites (Bennettitales) in the Mesozoic of China. Palaeoworld, 17(3) 222-234.

王永栋, 田宁, 蒋子堃, 梅盛吴, 2009. 鄂西早侏罗世香溪植物群真蕨植物研究进展. 古生物学报, 48(3): 527-540.

田宁, 蒋子堃, 2009. 神奇的木化石. 生物进化, (12): 61-64.

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古植物学的故事(182期)

中国古植物学新秀----田宁博士

Story of Palaeobotany Series (182)

Chinese Palaeobotanists (XI) [Young Palaeobotanists in China]— Dr Ning Tian [Brief English introduction]

Qigao Sun

Amherst, MA

Nov.18, 2012

Key words:中国青年古植物学家; 田宁博士