Xiaoming Wang | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Some of the fossils I have collected or studied (from left to right): Stephanocemas (antler of a very primitive deer), Kinometaxia (skull of an early mustelid), Sansanosmilus (skull of a false sabertooth), and Palaeogale (lower jaw of a weasel-like small carnivore).
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Xiaoming Wang, Curator
My main research interests:
- Mammal evolution of Tibetan Plateau and paleoenvironments
- Late Cenozoic biostratigraphy of Inner Mongolia
- Mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia
- Systematics and phylogeny of canids (dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes)
- Evolution of fossil carnivores
- Late Cenozoic fossil mammals of Southern California and Mexico
- Mammal migration between Eurasia and North America
My contact information:
Vertebrate Paleontology Department
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Phone: (213) 763-3310
E-mail: xwang@nhm.org