Emry, Robert
Curator Emeritus
Tertiary Mammalia of North America and Central Asia; mammalian evolution and dispersal; biostratigraphy; stratigraphy of Tertiary continental deposits of western North America.
Positions
- Curator Emeritus of Fossil Mammals, National Museum of Natural History 2006 - 2018
- Curator of Fossil Mammals, National Museum of Natural History 1971 - 2006
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Colorado State University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Wang, Xiaoming, Emry, Robert J., Boyd, Clint A., Person, Jeff J., White, Stuart C., and Tedford, Richard H. 2022. "An exquisitely preserved skeleton of Eoarctos vorax (nov. gen. et sp.) from Fitterer Ranch, North Dakota (early Oligocene) and systematics and phylogeny of North American early arctoids (Carnivora, Caniformia)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42 1–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2022.2145900. 2022
- Korth, William W., Boyd, Clint A., Emry, Robert J., and Person, Jeff J. 2021. "Marsupials (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Brule Formation (Whitneyan, Oligocene) North Dakota." Journal of Paleontology, 95, (1) 193–204. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.41. 2021
- Rankin, Aime H., Emry, Robert J., and Asher, Robert J. 2020. "Anatomical sciuromorphy in "protrogomorph" rodents." Palaeontologia Electronica, 23, (2) a25–a25. https://doi.org/10.26879/1049. 2020
- Czaplewski, Nicholas, Person, Jeff, Boyd, Clint, and Emry, Robert. 2019. "A new species of bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the early Oligocene global cooling period, Brule Formation, North Dakota, USA." Palaeovertebrata, 42, (2) e2. https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.42.2.e2. 2019
- Asher, Robert J., Smith, Martin R., Rankine, Aime, and Emry, Robert J. 2019. "Congruence, fossils and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs." Royal Society Open Science, 6, (7). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190387. 2019
- Gaudin, Timothy J., Wible, John R., Rose, Kenneth D., Emry, Robert J., and Spaulding, Michelle. 2019. "Skeletal anatomy of the basicranium and auditory region in the metacheiromyid palaeanodont Metacheiromys (Mammalia, Pholidotamorpha) based on high-resolution CT scans." Fossil Imprint, 75, (3-4) 484–503. https://doi.org/10.2478/if-2019-0029. 2019
- Perry, Jonathan M. G., Gunnell, Gregg F., and Emry, Robert J. 2017. "New cranial material of Notharctus (Mammalia, Primates, Notharctidae) from the Sheep Pass Formation, Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, with implications for incisor morphology and paleogeography of notharctine primates." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37, (4). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1331914. 2017
- Korth, William W., Emry, Robert J., and Musso, Marissa R. 2015. "Systematics, cranial morphology, and taphonomy of the eomyid rodent Adjidaumo minimus (Matthew, 1903) from the Chadronian (late Eocene), Flagstaff Rim area, Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 0, (0). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.1001854. 2015
- Korth, William W. and Emry, Robert J. 2013. "Pipestoneomyidae, a New Family of Fossil Rodents (Mammalia) from the Duchesnean (Late Middle Eocene, Bartonian) to Orellan (Early Oligocene, Priabonian) of North America." Journal of Paleontology, 87, (2) 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1666/12-054R.1. 2013
- Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 2013. "The eomyid rodent Paradjidaumo Burke from the late Eocene White River Formation, Flagstaff Rim area, Wyoming." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 126, (2) 178–186. https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-126.2.178. 2013
- Lucas, Spencer G., Spielmann, Justin A., Hunt, Adrian P., and Emry, Robert J. 2012. "Crocodylian coprolites from the Eocene of the Zaysan Basin, Kasakstan." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Vertebrate Coprolites, 57 319–324. 2012
- Lucas, Spencer G., Bray, Emily S., Emry, Robert J., and Hirsch, Karl F. 2012. "Dinosaur eggshell and the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in the Zaysan Basin, Eastern Kazakstan." Journal of stratigraphy, 36, (2) 417. 2012
- Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 2012. "Early Chadronian (late Eocene) rodents from the Flagstaff Rim area, central Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32, (2) 419–432. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.649329. 2012
- Gaudin, Timothy J., Emry, Robert J., and Wible, John R. 2009. "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis." Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 16, (4) 235–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. 2009
- Emry, Robert J. and Korth, William W. 2007. "A new genus of squirrel (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from the mid-Cenozoic of North America." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, (3) 693–698. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[693:ANGOSR]2.0.CO;2. 2007
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Book
- Czaplewski, Nicholas J., Morgan, Gary S., Emry, Robert J., Gignac, Paul M., and O'Brien, Haley D. 2022. Three New Early Middle Eocene Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 106. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.19874677. 2022
- Korth, William W., Emry, Robert J., Boyd, Clint A., and Person, Jeff J. 2019. Rodents (Mammalia) from Fitterer Ranch, Brule Formation (Oligocene), North Dakota. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 103. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.103. 2019
- Gaudin, Timothy J., Emry, Robert J., and Morris, Jeremy. 2016. Skeletal Anatomy of the North American Pangolin Patriomanis americana (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the Latest Eocene of Wyoming (USA). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 98. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.98. 2016
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Chapter
- Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., Krainer, Karl, Hunt, Adrian P., and Spielmann, Justin A. 2012. "Strigilites (fossilized owl pellets) from the Oligocene of Wyoming." In Vertebrate Coprolites. Hunt, Adrian P., editor. 325–335. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. In New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 57. 2012
- Lucas, Spencer G., Emry, Robert J., Bayshashov, Bolat U., and Tyutkova, Lyubov A. 2009. "Cenozoic mammalian biostratigraphy and biochronology in the Zaysan Basin, Kazakhstan." In Papers on Geology, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Biostratigraphy in Honor of Michael O. Woodburne.. Albright, I. I., editor. 621–634. Museum of Northern Arizona. In Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65. 2009
- Korth, W. A. and Emry, Robert J. 2007. "A new Genus of Paramyine (Ischyromyidae, Rodentia) from the Eocene (Uintan to Chadronian) of Wyoming and Utah." In Mammalian Paleontology on a Global Stage: Papers in Honor of Mary R. Dawson. Beard, K. C. and Luo, Zhe-Xi, editors. 151–155. In Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History; no. 39. 2007
- Emry, Robert J. 2007. "The Middle Eocene North American Myomorph Rodent Elymys, her Asian Sister Aksyiromys, and other Eocene Myomorphs." In Mammalian Paleontology on a Global Stage: Papers in Honor of Mary R. Dawson. Beard, K. C. and Luo, Zhe-Xi, editors. 141–150. In Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History; no. 39. 2007
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