Browsing Comunidad Técnico-profesional y científica by Author "Rosenberger, Alfred L."
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Diving for monkeys
Rosenberger, Alfred L. (2012)From deep in the pools of Caribbean caves, CUNY Graduate Center anthropologists retrieve the remains of a long extinct primate and other prize fossils -
First skull of Antillothrix bernensis, an extinct relict monkey from the Dominican Republic
Rosenberger, Alfred L.; Cooke, Siobhán B.; Rímoli, Renato; Ni, Xijun; Cardoso, Luis (2011)The nearly pristine remains of Antillothrix bernensis, a capuchin-sized (Cebus) extinct platyrrhine from the Dominican Republic, have been found submerged in an underwater cave. This represents the first specimen of an ... -
Fossil land tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Dominican Republic, West Indies, with a description of a new species
Albury, Nancy A.; Franz, Richard; Rimoli, Renato; Lehman, Phillip; Rosenberger, Alfred L. (2018)A new fossil tortoise, Chelonoidis dominicensis, is described from a flooded cave in La Altagracia Province in the southeastern Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. The holotype, and only known specimen, includes ... -
New cranium of the endemic Caribbean platyrrhine, Antillothrix bernensis, from La Altagracia province, Dominican Republic
Halenar, Lauren B.; Cooke, Siobhán B.; Rosenberger, Alfred L.; Rímoli, Renato (2017)Recent paleontological collection in submerged caves in the eastern Dominican Republic has yielded new specimens of Antillothrix bernensis. Here we describe a complete cranium of an adult individual (MHD 20) and provide ... -
Quaternary bat diversity in the Dominican Republic
Velazco, PaúL M.; O'Neill, Hannah; Gunnell, Gregg F.; Cooke, Siobhán B.; Rimoli, Renato; Rosenberger, Alfred L.; Simmons, Nancy B. (2013)The fossil record of bats is extensive in the Caribbean, but few fossils have previously been reported from the Dominican Republic. In this paper, we describe new collections of fossil bats from two flooded caves in the ... -
The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from late Quaternary underwater cave deposits in the Dominican Republic
Morgan, Gary S.; Albury, Nancy A.; Rímoli, Renato; Lehman, Phillip; Rosenberger, Alfred L.; Cooke, Siobhán B. (2018)Late Quaternary fossils representing a locally extinct population of the Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) are reported from two underwater caves in the Dominican Republic. A large fossil sample of C. rhombifer, from ...