Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
July 2023 - Present. Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology and
Curator, University of California Museum of Paleontology
July 2020 - June 2023. Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology and
Assistant Curator, University of California Museum of Paleontology
August 2016 - June 2020. Assistant Professor, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Education
January 2013 - June 2016. NSF and Frick Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, Division of Paleontology
(Mentor: John Flynn)
December 2011. Ph.D, University of Southern California, Integrative and Evolutionary Biology
(Thesis advisor: Xiaoming Wang @ NHMLA, Jill McNitt-Gray @ USC Biomechanics Lab)
December 2004. B.A., High Honors, University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology
(Thesis advisor: Anthony Barnosky; Project advisor: Sheila Patek)
Teaching
Spring 2024. Instructor, Functional Anatomy and Mammalian Evolution (UC Berkeley)
Spring 2022, 2023. Instructor, Life During the Age of Dinosaurs (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2024. Instructor, Extreme Mammals! (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2021, Spring 2023. Instructor, Fossil Coffee (UC Berkeley)
Spring 2018 ~ Spring 2020. Instructor, Functional and Analytical Anatomy (UB Jacobs School of Medicine)
Fall 2016 ~ Fall 2018. Instructor, Dental Human Gross Anatomy (UB Jacobs School of Medicine)
Fall 2016 ~ Fall 2019. Instructor, Medical Human Gross Anatomy (UB Jacobs School of Medicine)
Fall 2015. Laboratory Instructor (Mammals), Vertebrate Paleontology (Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History)
Fall 2014. Instructor, Principles of Computed Tomography lectures (Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History)
Summer 2014. Instructor, Introduction to Computed Tomography seminar (NSF REU program, AMNH)
Spring 2007. Graduate teaching assistant, General Physiology (BISC 307, University of Southern California)
Fall 2006. Graduate teaching assistant, Introduction to Ecology (BISC 315, University of Southern California)
Spring 2006. Graduate teaching assistant, Natural History of California (BISC 369, University of Southern California)
Fall 2005. Graduate teaching assistant, Organismal Biology and Evolution (BISC 120, University of Southern California)
Fall 2004 ~ Spring 2005. Undergraduate teaching fellow, GK-12 Exploring California Biodiversity outreach program (Berkeley Natural History Museums)
Spring 2004. Undergraduate teaching assistant. Behavioral Ecology (Integrative Biology 146, University of California Berkeley)
Awards and Funding
January 2023. Division of Vertebrate Morphology Mentorship Award, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
August 2021. National Science Foundation Grant DBI-2128146 (PI)
July 2020. National Science Foundation Grant EAR-1949613 (PI)
November 2018. UB Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award
August 2013. National Science Foundation Grant DEB-1257572 (Co-PI)
October 2012. Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
April 2012. William E. Trusten Award in Biological Sciences, University of Southern California
December 2009. American Museum of Natural History Collections Study Grant
April 2009. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Patterson Memorial Grant for fieldwork
April 2009. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
July 2008. National Geographic Society Young Explorers Grant
June 2008. Interdisciplinary Research Award, Integrative and Evolutionary Biology Program, University of Southern California
April 2008. United States Fulbright Student Grant to China
April 2008. Evolving Earth Foundation Student Research Grant
April 2008. Geological Society of America Student Research Grant
October 2007. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Student Travel Grant
June 2007. National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship
May 2007. American Society of Mammalogists Grant-In-Aid of Research
March 2007. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
May 2006. Paleontological Society / National Science Foundation (U.S.) travel grant for the Second International Paleontological Congress
May 2006. Interdisciplinary Research Award, Integrative and Evolutionary Biology Program, University of Southern California
April 2006. Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California
May 2005. Joseph LeConte Award, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, in recognition of outstanding achievement in the study of natural history
June 2004. University of California, Berkeley Biology Fellows Research Grant, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professional Societies and Service
2023-Present. Co-chair, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Diversity Committee.
2021. Panelist, National Science Foundation.
2021-Present. Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Romer Prize Committee.
2015. Symposium Organizer, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting.
2014-2018. Reviewer, French National Research Agency (ANR), National Science Foundation (U.S.), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
2014. Technical Session Moderator, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting.
2014-2016. Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Student and Postdoctoral Committee.
2008-2010. Student member, Geological Society of America
2008-2009. Student member, Paleontological Society
2006-2011. Member, American Society of Mammalogists
2004-Present. Member, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
2004-Present. Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Reviewer for (alphabetically): The Anatomical Record, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Current Biology, Geosciences, Global Change Biology, Journal of Anatomy, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Journal of Paleontology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Molecular Ecology, Naturwissenschaften, Paleobiology, Palaeontologia Electronica, PLOS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Quaternary International, Science, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Vertebrata PalAsiatica, Zoomorphology, etc.
Selected Publications
2024
Tseng, ZJ. 2024. Bending performance changes during prolonged canine eruption in saber-toothed carnivores: A case study of Smilodon fatalis. The Anatomical Record, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25447
Law, C, Hlusko, L, and Tseng ZJ. 2024. Uncovering the mosaic evolution of carnivoran skeletal systems. Biology Letters. 20: 20230526. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0526
2023
Wang X., Li Q., and Tseng ZJ. 2023. A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 30:1067-1088. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-023-09692-2
Tseng ZJ., Garcia-Lara S., Flynn JJ., Holmes E., Rowe TB., Dickson BV. 2023. A switch in jaw form-function coupling during the evolution of mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0091
Fostowicz-Frelik L and Tseng ZJ. 2023. The mammalian skull: development, structure, and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0077
Tseng ZJ. 2023. Evolution: ‘Mix-and-match’ adaptations in plant-eating dinosaurs. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.034
Waldman E., Gonzalez-Stucker Y., Flynn JJ., Tseng ZJ. 2023. Dental topographic proxies for ecological characteristics in carnivoran mammals. Journal of Anatomy. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13806
2022
Chatar N., Fischer, V., Tseng ZJ. 2022. Many-to-one function of cat-like mandibles provides new evidence of mosaic evolution in sabretooth jaw systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 20221627 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1627
Wang X., Li Q., Tseng ZJ. 2022. Primitive Tibetan Antelope, Qurliqnoria hundesiensis (Lydekker, 1881) (Bovidae, Artiodactyla), from Pliocene Zanda and Kunlun Pass Basins and Paleoenvironmental Implications. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09632-6
Tsai CH, Tseng ZJ. 2022. Eurasian wanderer: An island sabertoothed cat (Felidae, Machairodontinae) in the Far East. Papers in Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1469
Wang X., Carranza-Castaneda O., Tseng ZJ. 2022. Fast spread followed by anagenetic evolution in Eurasian and North American Amphimachairodus. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2067756
Galiano H, Tseng ZJ* Solounias N, Wang X, Qiu Z, White SC.2022. A new aardwolf-line fossil hyena from Middle and Late Miocene deposits of Linxia Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.211025
Bertrand, O.C., Shelley, S.L., Williamson, T.E., Wible, J. R., Chester, S.G.B., Flynn, J.J., Holbrook, L. T., Lyson, T.R., Meng, J., Miller, I. M., Püschel, Hans P., Smith, T., Spaulding, M., Tseng, Z.J., Brusatte, S.L. 2022. Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.abl5584
Tseng ZJ, Wang X, Li Q, Xie G. 2022. Qurliqnoria (Mammalia: Bovidae) fossils from Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau and deep-time endemism of the Tibetan antelope lineage. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab117
Wang X, Z. Tseng ZJ*, Jiangzuo Q, Wang S, Wang H. 2022.. Sonitictis moralesi, gen. et sp. nov, a new hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid from middle Miocene Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China and its functional morphology. Historical Biology https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2004594
2021
Tseng ZJ. 2021. Rethinking the use of finite element simulations in comparative biomechanics research. PeerJ 9:e11178 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11178
Peterson JE, Tseng ZJ, Brink S. 2021. Bite force estimates in juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex based on simulated puncture marks. PeerJ 9:e11450 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11450
Tseng ZJ. 2021. Polar bear diet in the face of Arctic climate change. Glob Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15599
2020
Pérez-Ramos A, Tseng ZJ, Grandal-D’Anglade A, Rabeder G, Pastor F, Figueirido B. 2020. Biomechanical simulations reveal a trade-off between adaptation to glacial climate and dietary niche versatility in European cave bears. Science Advances 6(14):eaay9462, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay9462
Wang X, Jukar AM, Tseng ZJ, Li Q. 2020. Dragon bones from the heavens: European explorations and early palaeontology in Zanda Basin of Tibet, retracing type locality of Qurliqnoria hundesiensis and Hipparion (Plesiohipparion) zandaense, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1777551
Wang X, Tseng ZJ, Wu WY, Ye J, Meng J, Bi S. 2020. A new species of Tungurictis Colbert, 1939 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the middle Miocene of Junggar Basin, northwestern China and the early divergence of basal hyaenids in East Asia. Geodiversitas, 42(3): 29-45 https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a3
2019
Santaella BL, Tseng ZJ. 2019. Hole in One: an element reduction approach to modeling bone porosity in finite element analysis. PeerJ 7:e8112 [Link to open-access PDF]
Tseng ZJ, Zazula G., Werdelin L. 2019. First Fossils of Hyenas (Chasmaporthetes, Hyaenidae, Carnivora) from North of the Arctic Circle. Open Quaternary 5(1):1-6 doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.64 [open-access PDF]
Prybyla AN, Tseng ZJ, Flynn JJ. 2019. Biomechanical simulations of Leptarctus primus (Leptarctinae, Carnivora), and new evidence for a badger-like feeding capability. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e1531. 1-16. [Link to open-access PDF]
2018
Wysocki MA, Tseng ZJ. 2018. Allometry predicts trabecular bone structural properties in the carnivoran jaw joint. PLOS ONE. 13(8): e0202824. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202824 [Link to open-access PDF]
Wang X, White SC, Balisi M, Biewer J, Sankey J, Garber D, and Tseng ZJ. First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into bone consumption in Borophagus and their unique ecological niche. eLife 7:e34773. doi: 10.7554/eLife.34773. [Link to open-access PDF]
Tseng ZJ, Flynn JJ. 2018. Structure-function covariation with nonfeeding ecological variables influences evolution of feeding specialization in Carnivora. Science Advances 4:eaao5441. [Link to open-access PDF]
2017
Tseng ZJ, Su DF, Wang X, White SC, and Ji X. 2017. Feeding capability in the extinct giant Siamogale melilutra and comparative mandibular biomechanics of living Lutrinae. Scientific Reports 7(15225). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15391-9 [Link to open-access PDF][Link to open-access CT data and 3D models][Link to open-access simulation models]
Tseng ZJ, Pacheco-Castro A, Carranza-Castaneda O, Aranda-Gomez JJ, Wang X, and Troncoso H. 2017. Discovery of the fossil otter Enhydritherium terraenovae (Carnivora,Mammalia) in Mexico reconciles a palaeozoogeographic mystery. Biology Letters 13:20170259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0259
DeSantis LRG, Tseng ZJ, Liu J, Hurst A, Schubert BW, Jiangzuo Q. 2017. Assessing niche conservatism using a multiproxy approach: dietary ecology of extinct and extant spotted hyenas. Paleobiology 43(2):286-303 doi: 10.1017/pab.2016.45
2016
Deng T, Zhang YX, Tseng ZJ, and Hou SK. 2016. A skull of Machairodus horribilis and new evidence for gigantism as a mode of mosaic evolution in machairodonts (Felidae, Carnivora). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 54(4): 302−318 [Link to open-access PDF]
Tomiya S and Tseng ZJ. 2016. Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to Late Eocene ‘Miacis’ from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora). Royal Society Open Science 3: 160518. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160518 [Link to open-access PDF]
Tseng ZJ, Grohé C, Flynn JJ. 2016. A unique feeding strategy of the extinct marine mammal Kolponomos: convergence on sabretooths and sea otters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1826). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0044.
Tseng ZJ, Wang X, Li Q, and Xie G. 2016. Pliocene bone-cracking Hyaeninae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Zanda Basin, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Historical Biology 28(1-2):68-76 doi: 10.1080/08912963.2015.1004330.
Deng T, Wang H, Wang X, Li Q, and Tseng ZJ. 2016. The Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Baogeda Ula, Inner Mongolia, China. Historical Biology 28(1-2):52-67 doi: 10.1080/08912963.2015.1020425.
Tseng ZJ and Geisler JH. 2016. The first fossil record of borophagine dogs (Mammalia, Carnivora) from South Carolina, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3). doi: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1062022.
2015
Grohé C, Tseng ZJ, Lebrun R, Boistel R, and Flynn JJ. 2015. Bony labyrinth shape variation in extant Carnivora: a case study of Musteloidea . Journal of Anatomy: doi: 10.1111/joa.12421.
Figueirido B, Martin-Serra A, Tseng ZJ, and Janis CM. 2015. Habitat changes and changing predatory habits in North American fossil canids. Nature Communications 6: doi:10.1038/ncomms8976.
Wysocki MA, Feranec RS, Tseng ZJ, and Bjornsson CS. 2015. Using a novel absolute age determination technique to calculate the timing of tooth eruption in the saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis. PLOS ONE 10(7): e0129847. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129847. [Link to open-access PDF]
Tseng ZJ and Flynn JJ. 2015. An integrative method for testing form-function linkages and reconstructed evolutionary pathways of masticatory specialization. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12:20150184. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0184 [Link]
Tseng ZJ and Flynn JJ. 2015. Are cranial biomechanical simulation data linked to known diets in extant taxa? A method for applying diet-biomechanics linkage models to infer feeding capability of extinct species. PLOS ONE 10(4): e0124020. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124020. [Link to open-access PDF]
Wang X, Wang Y, Li Q, Tseng ZJ, Takeuchi G, Deng T, Xie G, Chang M, and Wang N. 2015. Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects. Gondwana Research 27(4):1335-1354. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.014. [Link]
Tseng ZJ and Flynn JJ. 2015. Convergence analysis of a finite element skull model of Herpestes javanicus (Carnivora, Mammalia): implications for robust comparative inferences of biomechanical function. Journal of Theoretical Biology 112-148. [Link to open-access PDF].
2014
Wang X, Tseng ZJ, Li Q, Takeuchi GT, and Xie G. 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.[Link]
Figueirido B, Tseng ZJ, Serrano-Alarcon FJ, Martin-Serra A., and Pastor JF. 2014. Three-dimensional computer simulations of feeding behaviour in red and giant pandas relate skull biomechanics with dietary niche partitioning. Biology Letters: 20140196 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0196. [Link]
Anton M, Salesa M, Galobart A,and Tseng ZJ. 2014. The Plio-Pleistocene scimitar-toothed felid genus Homotherium Fabrini,1890 (Machairodontinae,Homotherini): diversity, palaeogeography and taxonomic implications. Quaternary Science Reviews: doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.022. [Link]
2013
Tseng ZJ, Wang X, Slater GJ, Takeuchi GT, Li Q, Liu J, and Xie G. 2013. Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 20132686. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2686. [Link]
Tseng ZJ, Li Q, and Wang X. 2013. A new cursorial hyena from Tibet, and analysis of biostratigraphy, paleozoogeography, and dental morphology of Chasmaporthetes (Mammalia, Carnivora). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6):1457-1471.
Tseng ZJ. 2013. Testing adaptive hypotheses of convergence with functional landscapes: A case study of bone-cracking hypercarnivores. PLOS ONE 8(5): e65305. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065305. [Link to open-access PDF]
Figueirido B, Tseng ZJ, and Martin-Serra A. 2013. Skull shape evolution in durophagous carnivorans. Evolution doi:10.1111/evo.12059 p.1-19.
2012
Wang X., Tseng ZJ. and Takeuchi GT. 2012. Zoogeography, molecular divergence, and the fossil record―the case of an extinct fisher, Pekania palaeosinensis (Mustelidae, Mammalia), from the late Miocene Baogeda Ula Formation, Nei Mongol. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50(3):293-307. [Link to open-access PDF]
Deng T, Li Q, Tseng ZJ, Takeuchi GT, Wang Y, Xie G, Wang S, Hou S, and Wang X. 2012. Locomotive implication of a Pliocene three-toed horse skeleton from Tibet and its paleo-altimetry significance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(19):7374-7378.
Tseng ZJ. 2012. Connecting Hunter-Schreger Band microstructure to enamel microwear features: New insights from durophagous carnivores. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(3):473-484. [Link to open-access PDF]
2011
Deng T, Wang X, Fortelius M, Li Q, Wang Y, Tseng ZJ, Takeuchi GT, Saylor, JE, Saila LK, and Xie G. 2011. Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores. Science 333:1285-1288.
Tseng ZJ. 2011. Variation and implications of intra-dentition HSB pattern in fossil hyaenids and canids (Carnivora, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5):1163-1167.
Tseng ZJ, McNitt-Gray JL., Flashner H., Wang X., and Enciso, R. 2011. Model sensitivity and use of the comparative finite element method in mammalian jaw mechanics: mandible performance in the Gray Wolf. PLOS ONE 6(4): e19171. [Link to open-access PDF]
Tseng ZJ and Wang X. 2011. Do convergent ecomorphs evolve through convergent morphological pathways? Cranial shape evolution in fossil hyaenids and borophagine canids (Carnivora, Mammalia). Paleobiology 37(3):470-489.
Tseng ZJ and Stynder D. 2011. Mosaic functionality in a transitional ecomorphology: skull biomechanics in stem Hyaeninae compared to modern South African carnivorans. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102:540-559.
Tseng ZJ, Anton M., and Salesa MJ. 2011. The evolution of the bone-cracking model in carnivorans: cranial functional morphology of the Plio-Pleistocene cursorial hyaenid Chasmaporthetes lunensis (Mammalia: Carnivora). Paleobiology 37(1):140-156.
2010
Tseng ZJ and Wang X. 2010. Cranial functional morphology of fossil dogs and adaptation for durophagy in Borophagus and Epicyon (Carnivora, Mammalia). Journal of Morphology 271:1386-1398.
Tseng ZJ, He W., and Chen, SQ. 2010. Geometric morphometrics analysis of cranial shape among late Miocene hyaenid ecomorphologies in the Linxia Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(3):235-246. [Link to open-access PDF]
Deng T. and Tseng ZJ. 2010. Osteological evidence for predatory behavior of the giant percrocutid (Dinocrocuta gigantea) as an active hunter. Chinese Science Bulletin 55:1790-1794.
Tseng ZJ, Takeuchi G., and Wang X. 2010. Discovery of the upper dentition of Barbourofelis whitfordi (Nimravidae, Carnivora) and an evaluation of the genus in California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):244-254.
Tseng ZJ and Binder WJ. 2010. Mandibular biomechanics of Crocuta crocuta, Canis lupus, and the late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Carnivora, Mammalia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158:683-696.
2009
Tseng ZJ, O'Connor JK., Wang X., and Prothero DR. 2009. The first Old World occurrence of the North American mustelid Sthenictis (Carnivora, Mammalia). Geodiversitas 31(4):743-751.
Tseng ZJ, Wang X., and Stewart, JD. 2009. A new immigrant mustelid (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the middle Miocene Temblor Formation of central California. PaleoBios 29(1):13-23.
Tseng ZJ. 2009. Cranial function in a late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Mammalia: Carnivora) revealed by comparative finite element analysis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96:51-67.
2008
Clark HO., Newman DP., Murdoch JD., Tseng J, Wang ZH., and Harris RB. 2008. Vulpes ferrilata (Carnivora: Canidae). Mammalian Species 821:1-6.
Tseng ZJ, Jin C-Z, Liu J-Y, Zheng L-T, and Sun C-K. 2008. Fossil Hyaenidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Huainan, Anhui Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 46(2):133-146.
2007
Tseng ZJ, Wang X. 2007. The first record of the late Miocene Hyaenictitherium hyaenoides Zdansky (Carnivora: Hyaenidae) in Inner Mongolia and an evaluation of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):699-708.
Tseng ZJ, Chang C-H. 2007. A study of new material of Crocuta crocuta ultima (Carnivora: Hyaenidae) from the Quaternary of Taiwan. Collection and Research 20: 9-19. [Link to open-access PDF]