本实验室可进行化石的宏观照相以及显微成像，通过光学仪器（照相机、显微镜等设备）观察化石的整体形态以及细节特征。利用一些特殊的前处理和图像处理手段（如液体浸润、镁粉、成像叠加），还能将化石中肉眼难以观察到的细节特征显现出来，更好地帮助科研人员鉴定化石属种。

目前服务科研单位及生产单位：中科院南京地质古生物研究所、南京大学、中国地质大学（武汉）、山东科技大学、成都理工大学、中国矿业大学（徐州）。

成果：

1. Li Liu, Josef Pšenička, Jiří Bek, Mingli Wan, Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Jun Wang, 2020. A whole calamitacean plant Palaeostachya guanglongii from the Asselian (Permian) Taiyuan Formation in the Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, in press.

2. Mingli Wan, Wenjun Sun, Jiří Bek, Feng Liu, Christopher Hill, Jun Wang, 2020. Scolecopteris minuta nov., a marattialean fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora of Inner Mongolia, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, in press.

3. Weiming Zhou, Kyi Pyar Aung, Li Liu, Yichun Zhang, Than Zaw, Jun Wang, Shuzhong Shen, 2020. First record of Cisuralian–Guadalupian plant fossils from the Shan Plateau,eastern Myanmar. Palaeoworld, 29(1): 108–116.

4. KwangSik So, CholGuK. Won, KumSik Han, Chunpeng Xu, Bo Wang,Yan Fang, 2020. The first Orthoptera (Insecta) from the Lower Cretaceous of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Cretaceous Research, 108, 104336.

5. Dandan Li, Jun Wang, Shan Wan, Josef Pšenička, Weiming Zhou, Jiří Bek, Jana Votočková-Frojdová. 2019. A marattialean fern, Scolecopteris libera sp., from the Asselian (Permian) of Inner Mongolia, China. Palaeoworld, 28(4): 487–507.

6. Weiming Zhou, Dandan Li, Josef Pšenička, C. Kevin Boyce, Jun Wang, 2019. A left-handed fern twiner in a Permian swamp forest. Current Biology, 29, R1172–R1173.

7. Haipeng Xu, Yichun Zhang, Feng Qiao, Shuzhong Shen, 2019. A new Changhsingian brachiopod fauna from the Xiala Formation at Tsochen in the central Lhasa Block and its paleogeographical implications. Journal of Paleontology, in press.

8. 周志澄, 罗辉, 许波, Willems H., 王学恒, 蔡华伟, 陈迪舒, 刘实佳, 陈金华, 2018. 四川江油渔洞子飞仙关组巨鲕灰岩的成因解释——在微观及超微世界里认识华南早三叠世巨鲕灰岩的成因. 地层学杂志, 42(2): 145–158.

9. 周志澄, 许波, 罗辉, Willems H., 蔡华伟, 陈金华, 陈迪舒, 王学恒, 刘实佳, 2015. 四川江油渔洞子剖面下三叠统飞仙关组底部龙介类的古生态意. 微体古生物学报, 32(4): 403–410