Xiaoming Wang (paleontologist)

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Xiaoming Wang
Born (1957-07-14) July 14, 1957 (age 67)
China
NationalityChinese
American
Alma mater Nanjing University
University of Kansas
Scientific career
Fields Paleontology
Geology
Institutions Long Island University

Xiaoming Wang is a Chinese-born American vertebrate paleontologist and geologist who lives and teaches in the United States.

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Areas of expertise

Professor Wang specializes in the fossil evolution, systematics, and phylogeny of mammals of the Cenozoic. He has researched the biostratigraphy of Inner Mongolia and Asia as a whole, the geochronology of Asia, paleoenvironments of the Tibetan Plateau, and mammalian migrations between Eurasia and North America. Wang has also investigated the systematics and phylogeny of canids (dogs and their kin) as well as Late Eocene through Pleistocene fossil mammals of Southern California and Mexico. (see Natural History Museum of LA).

Education

Professional life

Wang is a curator in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Natural History Museum. [1] [2] Wang is also a contributing researcher of the Paleobiology Database created by John Alroy, Ph.D. [3]

Below is a list of taxa that Wang has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2023 Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov.Wang, Li, & Tseng [4]
2020 Oriensmilus liupanensis gen. et sp. nov.Wang, White, & Guan [5]
2016 Protovis himalayensis gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Li, & Takeuchi [6]
2014 Vulpes qiuzhudingi sp. nov.Wang, Tseng, Li, Takeuchi, & Xie [7]

Research

Grants

U.S. National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. National Geographic Society.

Publications

Wang is also co-author, with American Museum of Natural History paleontologist, Richard H. Tedford of a popular book Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History , based upon their research on fossils of the Canidae.

References

  1. ↑ Natural History Museum, Blogspot
  2. ↑ Xiaoming Wang, Curator, National History Museum, Vertebrate Paleontology, Los Angeles
  3. ↑ Paleobiology Database Contributing Researchers
  4. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Li, Qiang; Tseng, Z. Jack (28 November 2023). "A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain". Journal of Mammalian Evolution . 30 (4): 1067–1088. doi:10.1007/s10914-023-09692-2. ISSN   1064-7554 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Springer Nature Link.
  5. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; White, Stuart C.; Guan, Jian (2 May 2020). "A new genus and species of sabretooth, Oriensmilus liupanensis (Barbourofelinae, Nimravidae, Carnivora), from the middle Miocene of China suggests barbourofelines are nimravids, not felids". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 18 (9): 783–803. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1691066. ISSN   1477-2019 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  6. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Li, Qiang; Takeuchi, Gary T. (2 September 2016). "Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis , genus and species nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 36 (5): e1169190. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190. ISSN   0272-4634 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  7. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Tseng, Zhijie Jack; Li, Qiang; Takeuchi, Gary T.; Xie, Guangpu (22 July 2014). "From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 281 (1787): 20140893. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0893. ISSN   0962-8452. PMC   4071559 . PMID   24920475 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via The Royal Society Publishing.

Wang, Xiaoming; and Tedford, Richard H. Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

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