Word: jepsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural Histoiy. Mr. Thomson was confronted with the toughest extraction...
Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
Because of its resemblance to the lemur, the question arose whether this primitive primate could have been a human ancestor. Dr. Jepsen thought not. Such a possibility would have been more favorably considered years ago when man was believed to have descended from a protolemuroid stock and it was paleontologically fashionable to speak of the "lemuroid phase" in the evolution of Anthropoidea (apes, monkeys, humans). Recent research in comparative anatomy has tended to displace the lemurs, as human ancestors, in favor of a small, tree-living nocturnal animal called Tarsius which has a thumb opposable to its fingers, eats with...
...Montana. Princeton paleontologists under the leadership of Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen. digging in a cretaceous formation near Red Lodge in southern Montana, found some old broken eggs. They thought the eggs might have been laid 50 million years ago by an awkward dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million...