1- Primate
Origins
2- Eocene
of North America
3- Evolution
of African Prosimians
4- Anthropoid
and Catarrhine Origins
5- Evolution
of the Order Hyracoidea
6- African
Mammal Faunas
7- Fossil
Birds
8- Primate
Life History and Behavior
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1990) Primate origins: lessons from a
Neotropical marsupial. American Journal of Primatology 22: 263-277.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (2001). Primate origins. In: Hartwig, W.C. (editor) The
Primate Fossil Record, Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 5-10.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Sussman, R.W. (in review) Parallelisms among primates and possums. In: Ravosa, M. &
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Rasmussen,
D.T. (1990) The phylogenetic position of Mahgarita stevensi: protoanthropoid or
lemuroid? International Journal of
Primatology 11: 437-467.
Rasmussen,
D.T.; Shekelle, M.; Walsh, S.L. & Riney, B.O. (1995)
The dentition of Dyseolemur, and
comments on the use of the anterior teeth in primate systematics. Journal of Human Evolution 29:
301-320.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1996).
A new Middle Eocene omomyine primate from the Uinta Basin, Utah. Journal
of Human Evolution 31: 75-87.
Rasmussen,
D.T., Conroy, G.C., Friscia, A.R., Townsend, K.E., & Kinkel, M.D.
(1999) Mammals of the Middle Eocene Uinta Formation. In: Gillette, D. (ed.) Vertebrate
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Rasmussen,
D.T., Hamblin, A.H. & Tabrum, A.R. (1999). The mammals
of the Duchesne River Formation. In: Gillette, D. (ed.) Vertebrate
Paleontology of Utah, Utah State Geological Survey, pp. 421-427.
Thornton,
M.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (2001). Taphonomic interpretation of
Gnat-Out-Of-Hell, an early Uintan small mammal locality in the Uinta Formation,
Utah. In: Gunnell, G. F. (editor) Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences
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Simons,
E.L.; Bown, T.M. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1987) Discovery of two additional prosimian primate
families (Omomyidae, Lorisidae) in the African Oligocene. Journal of Human
Evolution 15: 431-437.
Simons,
E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1994)
A remarkable cranium of Plesiopithecus
teras (Primates, Prosimii) from the Eocene of Egypt. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91: 9946-9950.
Simons,
E.L.; Rasmussen, D.T. & Gingerich, P.D. (1995) New cercamoniine adapid from Fayum, Egypt. Journal
of Human Evolution 29:577-589
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Nekaris, K.A. (1998). The evolutionary history of
lorisiform primates. In: Harcourt, C.S.; Crompton, R.H. & Feistner, A.T.C.
(eds.) Biology and Conservation of Prosimians. Folia Primatologica 69,
supplement 1: 250-285.
Rasmussen,
D.T.; Conroy, G.C. & Simons, E.L. (1998) Tarsier-like
locomotor specializations in the Oligocene primate Afrotarsius. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science 95: 14848-14850.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1986)
Anthropoid origins: A possible solution to the Adapidae-Omomyidae paradox.
Journal of Human Evolution 15:
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Simons,
E.L.; Rasmussen, D.T. & Gebo, D.L. (1987) A new species of Propliopithecus from the Fayum, Egypt. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 73: 139-147.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Simons, E.L. (1988) New specimens of Oligopithecus savagei, early Oligocene
primate from the Fayum, Egypt. Folia
Primatologica 51: 182-208.
Simons,
E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1989) Cranial morphology Tarsius and Aegyptopithecus and the question of the tarsier-anthropoidean
clade. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 79: 1-23.
Simons,
E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1991) The generic allocation of Fayum
Anthropoidea. International Journal
of Primatology 12: 163-178.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Simons, E.L. (1992) Paleobiology of the oligopithecines,
the world's earliest anthropoid primates. International Journal of
Primatology 13: 477-508.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1994) The different meanings of a
tarsioid-anthropoid clade and a new model of anthropoid origin. In: Fleagle,
J.G. & Kay, R.F. (eds.) Anthropoid Origins. Plenum Press, NY, pp.
335-360.
Simons,
E.L.; Rasmussen, D.T. Bown, T.M. & Chatrath, P.S. (1994) The Eocene origin of anthropoid primates:
adaptation, evolution, and diversity.
In: Fleagle, J.G. & Kay, R.F. (eds.) Anthropoid Origins.
Plenum Press, NY, pp. 179-201.
Gebo,
D.L.; Simons, E.L.; Rasmussen, D.T. & Dagosto, M.
(1994) Eocene anthropoid postcrania from the Fayum, Egypt. In: Fleagle, J.G.
& Kay, R.F. (eds.) Anthropoid Origins. Plenum Press, NY, pp.
203-233.
Simons,
E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1995)
A whole new world of ancestors: Eocene anthropoideans from Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology 3:
128-139.
Simons,
E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1996).
The skull of Catopithecus browni,
an early Tertiary catarrhine. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 100: 261-292.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (2001). Early catarrhines of the African Eocene and
Oligocene. In: Hartwig, W.C. (editor) The Primate Fossil Record,
Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 203-220.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Simons, E.L. (1988) New Oligocene hyracoids from
Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 8: 67-83.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1989) The evolution of the Hyracoidea: a
review of the fossil evidence. In:
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Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 57-78.
Rasmussen,
D.T., Gagnon, M. & Simons, E.L. (1990) Taxeopody in
the carpus and tarsus of Oligocene Pliohyracidae (Mammalia: Hyracoidea) and the
phyletic position of hyraxes. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 87: 4788-4691.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Simons, E.L. (1991) The oldest Egyptian hyracoids
(Mammalia: Pliohyracidae): New species of Saghatherium
and Thyrohyrax from the
Fayum. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie
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Schwartz,
G.T.; Rasmussen, D.T. & Smith, R.J. (1995) Body size diversity and community structure
of fossil hyracoids. Journal of Mammalogy 76: 1088-1099.
Rasmussen,
D.T.; Pickford, M.; Mein, P.; Senut, B. & Conroy, G.C.
(1996) Earliest known procaviid
hyracoid from the Upper Miocene of Namibia. Journal of Mammalogy 77:
745-754.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Simons, E.L. (2000). Ecomorphological diversity among Paleogene hyracoids (Mammalia):
A new cursorial browser from the Fayum, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 20(1): 167-176.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (2000) Hyraxes. In: Singer, R. (ed.) Encyclopedia
of Paleontology, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
Gebo,
D.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1985)
The earliest fossil pangolin (Pholidota: Manidae) from Africa. Journal
of Mammalogy 66: 538-541.
Rasmussen,
D.T., Tilden, C.D. & Simons, E.L. (1989) New specimens
of the gigantic creodont, Megistotherium,
from Moghara, Egypt. Journal of Mammalogy 70: 442-447.
Simons,
E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1990)
Vertebrate paleontology of Fayum: History of research, faunal review and
future prospects. In: Said, R. (ed.) The Geology of Egypt. A. A. Balkema
Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 627-638.
Fleagle,
J.G.; Rasmussen, D.T.; Yirga, S.; Bown, T.M. & Grine, F.E. (1991)
New hominid fossils from Fejej, southern Ethiopia. Journal of Human
Evolution 21:145-152.
Rasmussen,
D.T.; Bown, T.M. & Simons, E.L. (1992) The
Eocene-Oligocene transition in continental Africa. In: Prothero, D.R & Berggren, W.A. (eds.) Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic
Evolution, Princeton University Press, pp. 548-566.
Fleagle,
J.G.; Bown, T.M. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1992) Fejej, southern Ethiopia. National
Geographic Research and Exploration 8(1): 119-120.
Fleagle,
J.G.; Yirga, S.; Bown, T.M.; Rasmussen, D.T., Assefa, Z.; Hagos, T. &
Negash, A. (1994)
New paleontological discoveries from Fejej, southern Omo, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the XIth International
Congress of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa.
Olson,
S.L. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1986)
Paleoenvironment of the earliest anthropoids: new evidence from the
Oligocene avifauna of Egypt. Science
233: 1202-1204.
Rasmussen,
D.T.; Olson, S.L. & Simons, E.L. (1987) Fossil birds from the Oligocene Jebel
Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt.
Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 62: 1-20.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Kay, R.F. (1992) A Miocene anhinga from Colombia,
and comments on the zoogeographic relationships of South America's Tertiary
avifauna. In: Campbell, K.E. (ed.) Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce
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Rasmussen,
D.T. (1997)
Birds. In: Kay, R.F.; Madden, R.H.; Cifelli, R.L. & Flynn, J.J.,
eds. Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La
Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
171-183.
Miller,
E.R.; Rasmussen, D.T. and Simons, E.L. (1998) Fossil storks
(Ciconiidae) from the Late Eocene and Early Miocene of Egypt. Ostrich 68:
23-26.
Rasmussen,
D.T.; Simons, E.L.; Hertel, F. & Judd, A. (2001)
Hindlimb of a giant terrestrial bird from the Upper Eocene, Fayum, Egypt. Palaeontology
44: 325-337.
Kay, R.F.; Rasmussen, D.T. & Beard, K.C. (1984) Cementum counts provide a means for age determination in Macaca mulatta (Primates, Anthropoidea). Folia Primatologica 42:85-95.
Izard,
M.K. & Rasmussen, D.T. (1985)
Reproduction in the slender loris, Loris
tardigradus malabaricus. American
Journal of Primatology 8: 153-165.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1985)
A comparative study of breeding seasonality and litter size in eleven
taxa of captive lemurs (Lemur and Varecia). International Journal of Primatology 6: 501-517.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1986) Life History and Behavior of Slow Lorises and Slender Lorises:
Implications for the Lorisine-Galagine Divergence. Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Izard, M.K. (1988)
Scaling of growth and life-history traits relative to body size, brain
size, and rate in lorises and galagos (Lorisidae, Primates). American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 75: 357-367.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Tan, C.L. (1992) The allometry of behavioral
development: fitting sigmoid curves to ontogenetic data for use in
interspecific allometric analyses. Journal of Human Evolution 23:
159-181.
Nekaris,
K. A. I., & Rasmussen, D. T. (in press). The diet
and feeding behavior of the Mysore slender loris (Loris tardigradus lydekkerianus). International Journal of
Primatology.
Rasmussen,
D.T., editor (1993) The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness. Jones
& Bartlett Publishers, Boston.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1992)
The mystery of Zebulon Pike's "parakeet" solved. Archives
of Natural History 19: 117-120.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1994)
Book review: Milestones in Human Evolution. International Journal of Primatology 15: 791-794.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1995) Book review: Early Pleistocene youth. Current
Anthropology 36: 537-539.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1997)
African and Asian prosimian field studies. In: Spencer, F (ed.) History of Physical Anthropology.
Garland Publishing Company, New York, pp. 23-26.
Rasmussen,
D.T. (1997) Book review: "Creatures of the
Dark: The Nocturnal Prosimians". American Scientist 85: 284.
Rasmussen,
D.T. & Rehg, J.A. (1999) The evolutionary context of human
economics. Forum for Social Economics 29:1-15.
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D.T. (2000) Hyracoidea. In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook
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