Xiaoming Wang is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has been studying fossil land mammals, especially carnivores, in Asia for nearly twenty years. He has led numerous field expeditions in northern China, especially in Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. He is the lead author of Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History.

Lawrence J. Flynn is assistant director at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and vertebrate paleontologist specializing in Asian studies. He is a long-time coinvestigator on the Siwalik Series of Pakistan and India, Miocene deposits well known for their richness including large hominoids. He is also coinvestigator with Chinese and American scholars on diverse fossil deposits of several Chinese provinces, including the Late Neogene Yushe Basin.

Mikael Fortelius is professor of evolutionary palaeontology at the University of Helsinki and has conducted field-based research in Asia for more than two decades, particularly in Turkey and China. He is a leader in the field of palaeodiet reconstruction and the use of mammalian ecometrics in palaeobiological research. Since 1992, he has coordinated the international NOW database of Neogene mammal localities and species of the Old World. He is the lead editor of Geology and Paleontology of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey.