“…As has been the case in other countries, most of the past conodont investigations in China (e.g., An 1981, 1985, Chen & Zhang 1984, An & Ding 1985, Ni & Li 1987, An & Zheng 1990, Gao 1991, Wang & Bergström 1995, Wang et al 1996, Wang & Zhou 1998, Zhang 1998, Zhao et al 2000, Zhen et al 2007, 2009, Chen et al 2011 have had a biostratigraphic and taxonomic focus. Other aspects of conodont research, such as palaeoecology and conodont animal palaeobiology, have been dealt with in far fewer studies.…”