Zhang Miman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zhang Miman , often quoted as Mee-man Chang or Meemann Chang, (born April 17, 1936 in Nanjing ) is a Chinese paleontologist. She holds a research professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ( Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology , IVPP) and studies fossil fish.

She studied in Moscow with a degree in 1960 and received her doctorate in Stockholm in 1982 with a dissertation on Youngolepis . Then she was at the IVPP, of which she was the director (as the first woman) from 1983 to 1991. She has been to various natural history museums and universities in the USA, Japan, Sweden and Great Britain.

She deals with fossil fish and their paleoenvironment (taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography, paleoecology, biostratigraphy), especially in the sedimentary basins of the eastern provinces of China and from the period of the late Mesozoic to the Cenozoic (age around 130 to 50 million years). The resulting contributions to biostratigraphy also had an impact on the search for oil in China. But her most influential work involved cranial anatomy earlier Fleischflosser (Sarcopterygier) from the early Devonian of eastern Yunnan -Provinz, especially youngolepis and Diabolepis Both had she could Erstbeschreiberin XB Yu and thanks to their studies a close relationship be established with the lungfish and this in a central line of the tetrapod development.

She was the first to describe Paralycoptera , an early bone- wolf-like specimen from the early Chalk of Eastern China (1977 with Chou, reorganization 2009).

Most recently, she has dealt with carp-like carp (Cypriniformes) and especially sucker carp (Castostomidae), whose extinct genus Amyzon from the Eocene of China is very similar to the genus in North America, and carp fish (Cyprinidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of China, which are partially the ones from northwest Japan or those of Europe. Since they are freshwater fish, a similarity indicates a geological connection. She is also working with other scientists to clarify the relationships between recent species.

She played an important role in China after the Cultural Revolution, rebuilding paleontology and establishing international contacts.

From 1992 to 1996 she was President of the International Paleontological Association and from 1993 to 1997 President of the Paleontological Society of China. In 1991 she became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1995 she became an external member of the Linnean Society of London , in 2011 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1997 an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology .

In 2016 she received the Romer Simpson Medal . In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago . For 2018 she was awarded the UNESCO L'Oréal Prize .

Dedication names for them are the genus of the sarcopterygian meemannia (Zhu, Yu, Wang, Zhao & Jia, 2006), the theropod Sinovenator changii (Yu et al. 2002), the fossil bird Archaeornithura meemannae (Wang et al. 2015).

Fonts

  • Rhipidistians, Dipnoans and Tetrapods, in: Hans-Peter Schultze , Linda Trueb (Eds.), Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods, Controversy and Consensus, Cornell University Press, 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The braincase of youngolepis, a lower Devonian crossopterygian from Yunnan, South-western China, Stockholm University
  2. ↑ M.-M. Chang, XB Yu, A new crossopterygian, Youngolepis praecursor , gen. Et. sp. nov., from the lower Devonian of E. Yunnan, China, Sci. Sin., Vol. 24, 1981, pp. 89-97
  3. ↑ Initially called Diabolychthis by her, which was already taken. Chang, Yu: Structure and phylogenetic significance of Diabolichthys speratus gen. Et. sp. nov., a new dipnoan of eastern Yunnan, China, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Volume 107, 1984, pp. 171-184, Chang, Yu, A nomen novum of Diabolichthys Chang et Yu, Vertebr. PalAsiatica, Vol. 25, 1987, p. 79
  4. ↑ Chang, G.-H. Xu: Redescription of † Paralycoptera wui Chang & Chou, 1977 (Teleostei: Osteoglossoidei) from the Early Cretaceous of eastern China, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 157, 2009, pp. 83-106
  5. ^ IVPP's Professor to Receive Honorary Degree from Chicago University, IVPP, December 5, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Zhang, Miman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chang, Mee-man; Chang, sailor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanjing