JIN-BO HOU

OFFICE

Room B116, Zhenjiang Building, Xianlin Campus

E-mail

hou@nju.edu.cn

TEACHING EXPERIENCE – TEACHING ASSISTANT

1) At Home in the Universe (three quarters)

2) Earthquake Country (one quarter)

3) Geologic Maps and Landforms (one quarter)

4) Headlines in the History of Life (two quarters)

5) Natural Hazards and Disasters (one quarter)

6) Principles of Paleontology (two quarters)

7) The Earth’s Crust and Interior (one quarter)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Hou, J.-B., Wang, X.-D., Hou, Z.-S., Ramezani, J., Tang, Q., Shen, S.-Z. (2025). The terminal Ediacaran Tongshan Lagerstätte from South China. Nature Communications, 16, 10161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65176-2

Hou, J.-B., Hopkins, M. J. (2024). New evidence for five cephalic appendages in trilobites and implications for segmentation of the trilobite head. Palaeontology, 67, e12723. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12723

Wang, Z., Edgecombe, G. D., Hou, J.-B.(2024). Function of flow wakes for queuing trilobites: Positioning rather than drag reduction – Criteria for drag force assessment in palaeontological CFD simulations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 646, 112239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112239

Hou, J.-B., Hughes, N. C., Hopkins, M. J., Shu, D. (2023). Gill function in an early arthropod and the widespread adoption of the countercurrent exchange mechanism. Royal Society Open Science, 10, 230341. https://doi.org./10.1098/rsos.230341

Hou, J.-B., Hughes, N. C., Hopkins, M. J. (2023). Gill grooming in middle Cambrian and Late Ordovician trilobites. Geological Magazine, 160, 905-910. https://doi.org./10.1017/S001675682300002X

Hou, J.-B., Hughes, N. C., Hopkins, M. J. (2021). The trilobite upper limb branch is a well-developed gill. Science Advances, 7, eabe7377. https://doi.org./10.1126/sciadv.abe7377