1)      Floral succession in the Palaeozoic to Mesozoic transitional zones in North and Northwestern China

2)      Taxonomy of fossil plants from the Angara and Cathaysia floras in China based on petrified wood, impressions, and cuticles

3)      Non-marine stratigraphy

4)      Cathaysia-Angara mixed flora in northwestern China

5)      Development, evolution and extinction of the Cathaysia Flora

2011-2014: Ph.D. in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2008-2011:  MS in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, China.

2004-2008:  BS in Marine Management, Huaihai Institute of Technology, China. 　 

2019.3-present  Associate Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2016.3-2018.3  Postdoctoral Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology

2014.8-2019.3  Research Associate, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   

Mingli Wan,  G.R. Shi*, Mao Luo, Sangmin Lee, Jun Wang, 2020. First record of a gymnospermous wood from the Kungurian (late Early Permian) of the southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia, and its palaeoclimatic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 276, 104202. doi: j.revpalbo.2020.104202

Mingli Wan*, Wan Yang, Jun Wang, 2020. Palaeocupressinoxylon uniseriale nov. gen. et nov. sp., a gymnospermous wood from the upper Permian of Central Taodonggou, southern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China. Palaeoworld, 29, 117-125. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2019.06.002

Mingli Wan*, Wan Yang, Jun Wang, 2019. A new Protophyllocladoxylon wood from the Lower Triassic in southern Bogda Moutains, northwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 267, 62-72. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.05.005

Mingli Wan*, Wan Yang, Jun Wang, 2019. Amyelon bogdense sp. nov., a silicified gymnospermous root from the Changhsingian–Induan (?) in southern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 263, 12-27. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.01.004

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Jun Wang*, 2019. Sclerospiroxylon xinjiangensis sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood from the Kungurian (lower Permian) southern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China: systematics and palaeoecology. Geobios, 52, 85-97. doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2018.11.005

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Peng Tang, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2017. Medulloprotaxodioxylon triassicum gen. et sp. nov., a taxodiaceous conifer wood from the Norian (Triassic) of northern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 466, 353–360. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.050

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Xuezhi He, Weiming Zhou, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2017. Yangquanoxylon miscellum gen. nov. et sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood from the Upper Pennsylvanian–lower Permian Taiyuan Formation of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, with reference to the palaeoclimate in North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 479, 115-125. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.04.022

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2017. Ductoagathoxylon jimsarensis sp. nov., a coniferous wood from the Wuchiapingian (upper Permian) Wutonggou Formation in Junggar Basin, northern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 241, 13–25. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.004

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Xuezhi He, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2017. First record of fossil basidiomycete clamp connections in cordaitalean stems from the Asselian-Sakmarian (lower Permian) of Shanxi Province, North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466, 353–360.

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2016. Plant-arthropod and plant-fungus interactions in late Permian gymnospermous woods from the Bogda Mountains, Xinjiang, northwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 235, 120–128.

Mingli Wan, Weiming Zhou, Peng Tang, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2016. Xenoxylon junggarensis sp. nov., a new gymnospermous fossil wood from the Norian (Triassic) Huangshanjie Formation in northwestern China, and its palaeoclimatic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 441, 679–687.

Mingli Wan, Weiming Zhou, Xuezhi He, Lujun Liu, Jun Wang*, 2016. A typical Euramerican floral element from the Shanxi Formation (Cisuralian, lower Permian) in the Wuda Coal Field, Inner Mongolia, North China. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96, 507–515.

Mingli Wan, Weiming Zhou, Wan Yang, Jun Wang*, 2016. Charred wood of Prototaxoxylon from the Wuchiapingian Wutonggou Formation (Permian) of Dalongkou, northern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China. Palaeoworld 25, 21–31.

Mingli Wan, Jun Wang*, 2015. Nanshanopteris nervosa gen. et sp. nov., a glenopterid foliage from the Lopingian Sunan Formation, Yumen, western China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 219, 39–51.

Mingli Wan, Wan Yang, Jun Wang*, 2014. Septomedullopitys szei sp. nov., a new gymnospermous wood from Lower Wuchiapingian (Upper Permian) continental deposits of NW China, and its implication for a weakly seasonal humid climate in mid-latitude NE Pangaea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 407, 1–13. doi: 0.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.011.

Mingli Wan, He Shi, Daoyong Wang, 2012. Latest Permian Cathaysian flora from Yangbazhai, Mojiang in Yunnan Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 50, 236–248. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Malte Backer, Mingli Wan, Jun Wang*, 2019. Frond morphology and epidermal anatomy of Compsopteris wongii (T.Halle) Zalessky from the Permian of Shanxi, China. Pal？ontologische Zeitschrift, 93, 454-464. doi: 10.1007/s12542-019-00471-0

Weiming Zhou, Mingli Wan, Rebecca A. Koll, Jun Wang*, 2018. Occurrence of earliest gigantopterid from the basal Permian of the North China Block and its bearing on evolution. Geological Journal 53, 500-509. doi: 10.1002/gj.2907

Xuezhi He, Tianming Shi, Mingli Wan, Shijun Wang, Jason Hilton, Peng Tang, Jun Wang*, 2017. Peltaspermalean seed ferns with preserved cuticle from the Upper Triassic Karamay Formation in the Junggar Basin, northwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 247, 68-82. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.08.002

Chen Cheng, Mingli Wan, Mengxiao Yan, Weiming Zhou, Jun Wang*, 2017. First record of charcoalified sphenopterid mesofossils from the Serpukhovian (Mississippian, early Carboniferous) Jingyuan (Tsingyuan) Formation in Gansu Province, western China. Palaeoworld. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2016.05.003.

Mengxiao Yan, Mingli Wan, Xuezhi He, Xudong Hou, Jun Wang*, 2016. First report of Cisuralian (Early Permian) charcoal layers within a coalbed from Baode, North China: evidence of wildfires in tropical swamp of Cathaysia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 459, 94–408.

Xuezhi He, Shijun Wang, Mingli Wan, Jason Hilton, Jun Wang*, 2016. Gigantopteris Schenk ex Yabe in the Lopingian (Late Permian) flora of central Shanxi in the North China Block: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 116, 115–121.

Xuezhi He, Mingli Wan, Mengxiao Yan, Shijun Wang, Jun Wang*, 2015. Oligocarpia (Sphenopteris) gothanii Halle as a dominant floral element from the Middle Permian of southeastern Shanxi, North China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 89, 1063–1075.

Weiming Zhou, Mingli Wan, Mengxiao Yan, Chen Cheng, Jun Wang, 2015. The succession sequence of early Permian wetland vegetational communities in the Shanxi Formation of the Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 54, 66–83. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Zhengjiang Luo, Tianming Shi, Peng Tang, Pin Huang, Daran Zheng, Mingli Wan, Xu Wang, Yong Yin, 2015. Restudy on the age of Karamay Formation in northwestern margin of Junggar Basin. Xinjiang Petroleum Geology 36, 668–681. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Jun Wang*, Mingli Wan, Hermann Pfefferkorn, 2014. Aphlebia hvistendahliae sp. nov. from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora, Inner Mongolia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 210, 69–76.

Xiaolin Chang, He Shi, Wei Luo, Ying Song, Mingli Wan, 2010. Sr isotopic curve of the Lower-Middle Triassic of East Sichuan and the chronostratigraphic division. Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science and Technology Edition) 27, 9–14. (in Chinese with English abstract)