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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]

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

Year Taxon Authors
2026 Saharopithecus salemi gen. et sp. nov. Jaeger, Chaimanee, Benammi, Marivaux, Chavasseau, Beard, Valentin, Hlal, Bilal, Coster, & Brunet[7]
2024 Phenacolemur cavatus sp. nov. Anemone, Jones, Van Regenmorter, & Beard[8]
2023 Palaeohodites naduensis gen. et sp. nov. Rust, Ni, Tietjen, & Beard[9]
2023 Ignacius dawsonae sp. nov. Miller, Tietjen, & Beard[10]
2023 Ignacius mckennai sp. nov. Miller, Tietjen, & Beard[10]
2023 Ceutholestes acerbus sp. nov. Jones & Beard[11]
2023 Plagioctenodon dawsonae sp. nov. Jones & Beard[11]
2023 Plagioctenodon goliath sp. nov. Jones & Beard[11]
2023 Plagioctenoides cryptos sp. nov. Jones & Beard[11]
2021 Nesomomys bunodens gen. et sp. nov. Beard, Métais, Ocakoğlu, & Licht[12]
2021 Altaynycteris aurora gen. et sp. nov. Jones, Li, Ni, & Beard[13]
2021 Simonsius harujensis sp. nov. Mattingly, Beard, Coster, Salem, Chaimanee, & Jaeger[14]
2020 Africtis sirtensis gen. et sp. nov. Mattingly, Beard, Coster, Salem, Chaimanee, & Jaeger[15]
2018 Anatolianycteris insularis gen. et sp. nov. Jones, Coster, Licht, Métais, Ocakoğlu, Taylor, & Beard[16]
2018 Carpolestes twelvemilensis sp. nov. Mattingly, Sanisidro, & Beard[17]
2019 Chiromyoides kesiwah sp. nov. Beard, Jones, Thurber, & Sanisidro[18]
2016 Apidium zuetina sp. nov. Beard, Coster, Salem, Chaimanee, & Jaeger[19]
2008 Teilhardina magnoliana sp. nov. Beard[20]
2007 Baataromomys ulaanus gen. et sp. nov. Ni, Beard, Meng, Wang, & Gebo[21]
2004 Eosimias dawsonae sp. nov. Beard & Wang[22]
2004 Phenacopithecus krishtalkai sp. nov. Beard & Wang[22]
2004 Phenacopithecus xueshii gen. et sp. nov. Beard & Wang[22]
1996 Eosimias centennicus sp. nov. Beard, Tong, Dawson, Wang, & Huang[23]
1994 Macrotarsius macrorhysis sp. nov. Beard, Qi, Dawson, Wang, & Li[24]
1994 Adapoides troglodytes gen. et sp. nov. Beard, Qi, Dawson, Wang, & Li[24]
1994 Eosimias sinensis gen. et sp. nov. Beard, Qi, Dawson, Wang, & Li[24]
1988 Smilodectes gingerichi sp. nov. Beard[25]
1988 Copelemur australotutus sp. nov. Beard[25]

Awards

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Books

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  • The hunt for the dawn monkey: unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans, University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-520-23369-0
  • "Mammalian Biogeography and Anthropoid Origins", Primate biogeography: progress and prospects, Editors Shawn M. Lehman, John G. Fleagle, Springer, 2006, ISBN 978-0-387-29871-9
  • "Basal Anthropoids", The primate fossil record, Editor Walter Carl Hartwig, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-521-66315-1
  • "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

Papers

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Science
  2. ^ "CMNH Vertebrate Paleontology: K. Christopher Beard". Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  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 22 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Newly discovered fossils from China shed light on common ancestry of monkeys, apes and humans". Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  6. ^ "NASA - No Bones About It: NASA Analyzes Prehistoric Predator from the Past". Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  7. ^ Jaeger, Jean-Jacques; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Benammi, Mouloud; Marivaux, Laurent; Chavasseau, Olivier; Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Valentin, Xavier; Hlal, Osama; Bilal, Awad; Coster, Pauline; Brunet, Michel (1 June 2026). "New late middle Eocene anthropoids from Dur At-Talah, Libya: Implications for early primate dispersal into Afro-Arabia". Journal of Human Evolution. 215–216 103843. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103843. ISSN 0047-2484. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  8. ^ Anemone, Robert L.; Jones, Matthew F.; Van Regenmorter, John; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (3 May 2024). "A latest Paleocene mammal fauna from the Great Divide Basin in southern Wyoming and a revised biozonation of the Clarkforkian land mammal age". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 44 (3) e2424139. Bibcode:2024JVPal..44E4139A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2024.2424139. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  9. ^ Rust, Kathleen; Ni, Xijun; Tietjen, Kristen; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (1 December 2023). "Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)". Journal of Human Evolution. 185 103452. Bibcode:2023JHumE.18503452R. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103452. ISSN 0047-2484. PMID 37935595.
  10. ^ a b Miller, Kristen; Tietjen, Kristen; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (25 January 2023). "Basal Primatomorpha colonized Ellesmere Island (Arctic Canada) during the hyperthermal conditions of the early Eocene climatic optimum". PLOS ONE. 18 (1) e0280114. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1880114M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280114. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 9876366. PMID 36696373.
  11. ^ a b c d Jones, Matthew F.; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (30 September 2023). "Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, ?Eulipotyphla) from the Late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, Southern Wyoming, and a Revision of the Subfamily Placentidentinae". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 88 (2): 202. Bibcode:2023AnCM...88..202J. doi:10.2992/007.088.0202. ISSN 0097-4463.
  12. ^ Beard, Kenneth 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. Bibcode:2021Geobi..66..143B. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.008. Retrieved 2 January 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  13. ^ Jones, Matthew F.; Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (30 June 2021). "The earliest Asian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) address major gaps in bat evolution". Biology Letters. 17 (6) 20210185. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2021.0185. PMC 8241488. PMID 34186001.
  14. ^ Mattingly, Spencer G.; Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Coster, Pauline M. C.; Salem, Mustafa J.; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques (1 April 2021). "A new parapithecine (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the early Oligocene of Libya supports parallel evolution of large body size among parapithecids". Journal of Human Evolution. 153 102957. Bibcode:2021JHumE.15302957M. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102957. ISSN 0047-2484. PMID 33652264.
  15. ^ 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. Bibcode:2020JAfES.17203994M. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103994.
  16. ^ Jones, Matthew F.; Coster, Pauline M. C.; Licht, Alexis; Métais, Grégoire; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Taylor, Michael H.; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (1 June 2019). "A stem bat (Chiroptera: Palaeochiropterygidae) from the late middle Eocene of northern Anatolia: implications for the dispersal and palaeobiology of early bats". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 99 (2): 261–269. Bibcode:2019PdPe...99..261J. doi:10.1007/s12549-018-0338-z. ISSN 1867-1608.
  17. ^ 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. Bibcode:2018HBio...30.1031M. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1328509. ISSN 0891-2963. Retrieved 5 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  18. ^ Beard, Kenneth 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. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E0389B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1730389. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  19. ^ 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. Bibcode:2016JHumE..90...29B. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.010. PMID 26767957.
  20. ^ Beard, Kenneth Christopher (11 March 2008). "The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105 (10): 3815–3818. doi:10.1073/pnas.0710180105. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2268774. PMID 18316721. Retrieved 10 June 2026 – via Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  21. ^ Ni, Xijun; Beard, Kenneth 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. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)528[1:DOTFEC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0082. Retrieved 2 January 2025 – via BioOne Digital Library.
  22. ^ a b c 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. Bibcode:2004JHumE..46..401B. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.01.002. PMID 15066378. Retrieved 14 February 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  23. ^ Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Tong, Yongsheng; Dawson, Mary R.; Wang, Jingwen; Huang, Xueshi (5 April 1996). "Earliest Complete Dentition of an Anthropoid Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China". Science. 272 (5258): 82–85. doi:10.1126/science.272.5258.82. ISSN 0036-8075. Retrieved 10 June 2026 – via Science.
  24. ^ a b c 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. Bibcode:1994Natur.368..604B. doi:10.1038/368604a0. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 8145845. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  25. ^ a b Beard, Kenneth Christopher (April 1988). "New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 75 (4): 439–469. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330750403. ISSN 0002-9483. Retrieved 9 June 2026 – via Wiley Online Library.
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