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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.

Dr. Rose in the Bighorn Basin, July 2010.

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

Functional anatomy and evolution of early Cenozoic mammals
Patterns of evolution at the species level
Origins of the mammalian orders
Faunal succession and diversity

Curriculum Vitae

Kalthoff, D.C., K.D. Rose, and W. v. Koenigswald. 2011. Dental microstructure in Palaeanodon and Tubulodon (Palaeanodonta) and bioerosional tunneling as a widespread phenomenon in fossil mammal teeth. J. Vert. Paleontol. 31(6): 1303-1313.

Koenigswald, W. v., L.T. Holbrook, and K.D. Rose. 2011. Diversity and evolution of Hunter-Schreger band configuration in tooth enamel of perissodactyl mammals. Acta Palaeont. Polonica 56(1): 11-32.

Rose, K.D. 2010. New marsupial from the early Eocene of Virginia. J. Paleontol. 84: 561-565.

Kumar, K., K.D. Rose, R.S. Rana, L.Singh, T. Smith, and A. Sahni. 2010. Early Eocene artiodactyls (Mammalia) from western India. J. Vert. Paleontol. 30(4): 1245-1274.

Rose, K.D., R.S. Rana, A. Sahni, K. Kumar, P. Missiaen, L. Singh, and T. Smith. 2009. Early Eocene Primates from Gujarat, India. J. Human Evol. 56: 366-404. (view from Elsevier JHE page)

Rose, K.D., R.S. Rana, A. Sahni, K. Kumar, L. Singh, and T. Smith. 2009. First tillodont from India: Additional evidence for an early Eocene faunal connection between Europe and India? Acta Palaeont. Polonica 54(2): 351-355.

Rose, K.D., V.B. DeLeon, P. Missiaen, R.S. Rana, A. Sahni, L. Singh, and T. Smith. 2008. Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha. Proc. Royal Soc. London B 275: 1203-1208. (view from Royal Society Publishing site)

Silcox, M.T., K.D. Rose, and T.M. Bown. 2008. Early Eocene Paromomyidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: systematics and evolution. J. Paleontol. 82: 1074-1113. (view from Paleontological Society page)

Smith, T., R.S. Rana, P. Missiaen, K.D. Rose, A. Sahni, H. Singh, L. Singh. 2007. Highest diversity of earliest bats in the Early Eocene of India. Naturwissenschaften 94(12): 1003-1009

Rose, K.D., and W. von Koenigswald. 2007. The marmot-sized paramyid rodent Notoparamys costilloi from the early Eocene of Wyoming, with comments on dental variation and occlusion in paramyids. Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist. 39:111-125.

Rose, K.D. 2006. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 428 pp. (20% discount from JHU Press)

Rose, K.D. 2006. The postcranial skeleton of early Oligocene Leptictis (Mammalia: Leptictida), with a preliminary comparison to Leptictidium from the middle Eocene of Messel. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 278: 37-56.

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. (view from 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)

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. (view from Nature site)

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.

Gina McKusick, François D. H. Gould, Katrina Jones, Heather E. Ahrens