K. Christopher Beard
Encyclopedia
K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh
. He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China. He worked with NASA to scan a T-Rex skull.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, was founded by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896...
, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
. He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China. He worked with NASA to scan a T-Rex skull.
Works
- The hunt for the dawn monkey: unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans, University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 9780520233690
- "Mammalian Biogeography and Anthrooid Origins", Primate biogeography: progress and prospects, Editors Shawn M. Lehman, John G. Fleagle, Springer, 2006, ISBN 9780387298719
- "Basal Anthropoids", The primate fossil record, Editor Walter Carl Hartwig, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780521663151
- "Early Wasatchian Mammals From the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi", Eocene biodiversity: unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats, Editor Gregg F. Gunnell, Springer, 2001, ISBN 9780306465284
External links
- "K. Christopher Beard", Scientific Commons
- Christopher Beard" Christopher Beard's Blog
- "Fossil May Represent New Branch of Primates' Family Tree", The Washington Post, Apr 5, 1996