K. Christopher Beard

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K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, an expert on the primate fossil record and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award Winner. Beard's research is reshaping critical debates about the evolutionary origins of mammals, including primates, routinely questioning current thinking about their geographical origins. [1] Dr. Beard is the former Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, [2] and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh. [3] He is currently Distinguished Foundation Professor, Senior Curator at the University of Kansas. [4] He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China. [5] Dr. Beard also authored the book The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and Humans. [1] Beard was also part of the research teams that discovered Teilhardina , the earliest primate ever found in North America, and Eosimias , one of the earliest higher primates yet discovered. [1] He worked with NASA to scan a Tyrannosaurus rex skull. [6] Beard received his PhD from the Functional Anatomy and Evolution Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1989. [1]

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Below is a list of taxa that Beard has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2021 Nesomomys bunodens gen. et sp. nov.Beard, Métais, Ocakoğlu, & Licht [7]
2020 Africtis sirtensis gen. et sp. nov.Mattingly, Beard, Coster, Salem, Chaimanee, & Jaeger [8]
2019 Chiromyoides kesiwah sp. nov.Beard, Jones, Thurber, & Sanisidro [9]
2018 Carpolestes twelvemilensis sp. nov.Mattingly, Sanisidro, & Beard [10]
2016 Apidium zuetina sp. nov.Beard, Coster, Salem, Chaimanee, & Jaeger [11]
2007Baataromomys ulaanus gen. et sp. nov.Ni, Beard, Meng, Wang, & Gebo [12]
2004 Eosimias dawsonae sp. nov.Beard & Wang [13]
2004 Phenacopithecus krishtalkai sp. nov.Beard & Wang [13]
2004 Phenacopithecus xueshii gen. et sp. nov.Beard & Wang [13]
1994 Macrotarsius macrorhysis sp. nov.Beard, Qi, Dawson, Wang, & Li [14]
1994 Adapoides troglodytes gen. et sp. nov.Beard, Qi, Dawson, Wang, & Li [14]
1994 Eosimias sinensis gen. et sp. nov.Beard, Qi, Dawson, Wang, & Li [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Science
  2. ↑ "CMNH Vertebrate Paleontology: K. Christopher Beard". Archived from the original on 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  3. ↑ "People | Department of Geology and Environmental Science | University of Pittsburgh | University of Pittsburgh".
  4. ↑ "K. Christopher Beard | Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology". eeb.ku.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-05-22.
  5. ↑ "Newly discovered fossils from China shed light on common ancestry of monkeys, apes and humans". Archived from the original on 2010-04-10. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  6. ↑ "NASA - No Bones About It: NASA Analyzes Prehistoric Predator from the Past".
  7. ↑ Beard, K. Christopher; Métais, Grégoire; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Licht, Alexis (July 2021). "An omomyid primate from the Pontide microcontinent of north-central Anatolia: Implications for sweepstakes dispersal of terrestrial mammals during the Eocene". Geobios . 66–67: 143–152. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.008 . Retrieved 2 January 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  8. ↑ Mattingly, Spencer G.; Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Coster, Pauline M.C.; Salem, Mustafa J.; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques (December 2020). "A new carnivoraform from the early Oligocene of Libya: Oldest known record of Carnivoramorpha in Africa". Journal of African Earth Sciences . 172: 103994. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103994 . Retrieved 17 November 2024– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  9. ↑ Beard, K. Christopher; Jones, Matthew F.; Thurber, Nicholas A.; Sanisidro, Oscar (2 November 2019). "Systematics and paleobiology of Chiromyoides (Mammalia, Plesiadapidae) from the upper Paleocene of western North America and western Europe". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 39 (6): e1730389. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1730389. ISSN   0272-4634 . Retrieved 4 January 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  10. ↑ Mattingly, Spencer G.; Sanisidro, Oscar; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (17 November 2018). "A new species of Carpolestes (Mammalia, Plesiadapoidea) from the late Paleocene of southern Wyoming: assessing changes in size and shape during the evolution of a key anatomical feature". Historical Biology . 30 (8): 1031–1042. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1328509. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 5 January 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  11. ↑ Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Coster, Pauline M.C.; Salem, Mustafa J.; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques (January 2016). "A new species of Apidium (Anthropoidea, Parapithecidae) from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: First record of Oligocene primates from Libya". Journal of Human Evolution . 90: 29–37. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.010 . Retrieved 2 January 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  12. ↑ Ni, Xijun; Beard, K. Christopher; Meng, Jin; Wang, Yuanqing; Gebo, Daniel L. (16 May 2007). "Discovery of the First Early Cenozoic Euprimate (Mammalia) from Inner Mongolia". American Museum Novitates . 3571 (1): 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)528[1:DOTFEC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   0003-0082 . Retrieved 2 January 2025– via BioOne Digital Library.
  13. 1 2 3 Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Wang, Jingwen (April 2004). "The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China". Journal of Human Evolution . 46 (4): 401–432. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.01.002 . Retrieved 14 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  14. 1 2 3 Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Qi, Tao; Dawson, Mary R.; Wang, Banyue; Li, Chuankuei (14 April 1994). "A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China". Nature . 368 (6472): 604–609. doi:10.1038/368604a0. ISSN   1476-4687 . Retrieved 14 February 2025.
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