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Prof. Dr. Kenneth D. Rose

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsPalaeontology,Anatomy and Physiology
KeywordsEurotamandua, Wirbeltierpaläontologie, Eozäne Säugetiere, Messel, Schmelz
Honours and awards

2007: Palaontologische Gesellschaft Korrespondierenden Mitglied

2003: Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBaltimore
InstitutionJohns Hopkins University
InstituteSchool of Medicine, Center of Functional Anatomy and Evolution

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Wighart KoenigswaldForschungsbereich Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2003

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Rose from the John Hopkins University at Baltimore is an expert on Eocene mammals from North America. For many years he has conducted excavations in Wyoming and collected data which allow detailed reconstructions of the extinct animals as well as of their paleoenvironment. Together with Wighart v. Koenigswald from Bonn he will compare the fossil skeleton of an Eocene pantolestid from Wyoming with the skeletons found in Messel near Darmstadt. The question is whether the specific adaptations on both continents developed in the same directions although the populations were separated for at least 5 million years due to continental drift.

Publications (partial selection)

2007Kenneth D. Rose, W.v. Koenigswald: The marmot-sized paramyid rodent from the early Eocene of Wyoming, with comments on dental variation and occlusion in paramyids. In: Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 2007, 111-125
2006W. v. Koenigswald, K. D. Rose, P. D. Gingerich: Enamel microstructure in Coryphodon and the possible correlation of body size and schmelzmuster. In: J. Vert. Paleont., 2006, 86A
2006T. Smith, K. D. Rose, P. D. Gingerich: Rapid Asia-Europe-North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. In: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 2006, 11223-11227
2005Kenneth D. Rose, W.v. Koenigswald: 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. In: Palaeontographica, 2005, 55-96
2005J. Theodor, K. D. Rose, J. Erfurt: Artiodactyla. In: K. D. Rose, J. D. Archibald, The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005. 215-233
2005W.v. Koenigswald, Kenneth D. Rose, L. Grande, R.D. Martin: Die Lebensweise eozäner Säugetiere (Pantolestidae und Apatemyidae) aus Messel (Europa) im Vergleich zu neuen Skelettfunden aus dem Fossil Butte Member von Wyoming (Nordamerika). Geologisches Jahrbuch Hessen, Vol. 132. 2005. 43-54
2005W.v. Königswald, Kenneth D. Rose, L. Grande, R.D. Martin: First apatemyid skeleton from the lower Eocene Fossil Butte Member, Wyoming, compared to the European apatemyid from Messel. In: Palaeontographica , 2005, 149-169
2005E. Gheerbrant, K. D. Rose, M. Godinot: First palaeanodont (?pholidotan) mammal from the Eocene of Europe. In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2005, 209-218
2005W.v. Koenigswals, Kenneth D. Rose: The enamel microstructure of the early Eocene pantodont Coryphodon and the nature of the zigzag-enamel. In: J. Mammal. Evol., 2005, 419-432
2004W. v. Koenigswald, K. D. Rose: Messelsäuger (Pantolestiden und Apatemyiden) aus Wyoming. In: J. R. Reitner, G. Schmidt Geobiologie. 74th annual meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft.. 2004. 130-131
2004Kenneth D. Rose: Studying skeletons: Early Cenozoic mammals. In: Humboldt Kosmos, 2004, 35-36