E-Mail: KDROSE(at)jhmi.edu
Phone: 410-955-7172

1830 E. Monument St., Room 305
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Dr. Rose and Prof. von Koenigswald compare pantolestid skeletons from Wyoming and Messel, Germany, in the Goldfuss Museum at the Institut für Paläontologie in Bonn, Germany.

Ph.D., Geological Sciences: Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1979
M.A., Geological Sciences, Harvard, 1974
B.S., Geology & Geophysics: Paleobiology, Yale, 1972

evolution and functional anatomy of early Tertiary mammals
field research in the Eocene of Wyoming
patterns of evolution
faunal succession and diversity
origin of modern orders of mammals
origin and early radiation of Primates

Curriculum Vitae

Rose, K.D. and Archibald, J.D. (eds.) (2005) The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 280 pp.

Rose, K.D., T. Smith, R.S. Rana, A. Sahni, H. Singh, P. Missiaen, and A. Folie. 2006. Early Eocene (Ypresian) continental vertebrate assemblage from India, with description of a new anthracobunid (Mammalia, Tethytheria). J. Vert. Paleont. 26: 219-225.

Smith, T., K. D. Rose, and P. D. Gingerich. 2006. Rapid Asia-Europe-North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 11223-11227. Link to online accessible reprint (visit PNAS site)

Rose, K.D., and W.v. Koenigswald. 2005. An exceptionally complete skeleton of Palaeosinopa (Mammalia, Cimolesta, Pantolestidae) from the Green River Formation, and other postcranial elements of the Pantolestidae from the Eocene of Wyoming. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 273: 55-96. (visit Palaeontographica site)

Koenigswald, W.v., and K.D. Rose. 2005. The enamel microstructure of the early Eocene pantodont Coryphodon and the nature of the zigzag-enamel. J. Mammal. Evol. 12: 419-432. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Springer site)

Koenigswald, W.v., K.D. Rose, L. Grande, and R.D. Martin. 2005. First apatemyid skeleton from the lower Eocene Fossil Butte Member, Wyoming (USA), compared to the European apatemyid from Messel, Germany. Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 272: 149-169. (visit Palaeontographica site)

Zack, S., T.A. Penkrot, J.I. Bloch, and K.D. Rose. 2005. Affinities of 'hyopsodontids' to elephant shrews and a Holarctic origin of Afrotheria. Nature 434: 497-501. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Nature site)

Rose, K.D., and B.J. Chinnery. 2004. The postcranial skeleton of early Eocene rodents. B Carnegie Mus Nat Hist 36: 211-244.

Rose, K.D., J.J. Eberle, and M.C. McKenna (2004). Arcticanodon dawsonae, a primitive new palaeanodont from the Lower Eocene of Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic. Canadian J. Earth Sci. 41(6): 757-763. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Ingenta page)

Gunnell, G.F., and K.D. Rose (2002) Tarsiiformes: Evolutionary history and adaptation; pp. 45-82 in: The Primate Fossil Record (W. Hartwig, ed.), Cambridge Univ. Press.

Rose, K.D. (2001) Compendium of Wasatchian mammal postcrania from the Willwood Formation; In: Paleocene-Eocene Stratigraphy and Biotic Change in the Bighorn and Clarks Fork Basins of Northwestern Wyoming. (P.D. Gingerich, ed.), Univ. Michigan Papers on Paleont. 33: 157-183.

Rose, K.D. (2001) Wyoming's garden of Eden. Natural History, April: 55-59.

Gina McKusick, Shawn Zack, Tonya Penkrot