Graduate students Gary Schwartz (left) and Ellen Miller (right) working with
Prof. Glenn Conroy in Eocene deposits in the Uinta Basin.

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Tab Rasmussen and Glenn Conroy (with colleagues from Washington Univ., UCLA, the San Diego Natural History Museum, and Kent State Univ.) have begun a research program in the Uinta Basin of Utah.

Some early results of the Uinta Basin work will appear in:

Rasmussen, D.T.

in press

Discovery of a new Middle Eocene omomyine primate from the Uinta Basin, Utah. Journal of Human Evolution.

Research on early primate evolution in Africa continues as well. This remarkably complete skull of an Eocene prosimian was found by Tab Rasmussen and his colleagues in Egypt.

Simons, E.L. & Rasmussen, D.T.

1994

A remarkable cranium of Pleisopithecus teras (Primates, Prosimii) from the Eocene of Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91:9946-9950.