Biography

Webpage: http://users.rowan.edu/~holbrook/

Video introduction: https://www.youtube.com/embed/sZGHT9OPrlo 

Courses:
Introduction to Evolution & Scientific Inquiry
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Biodiversity and the History of Life

Education:
BS (Biology), Fordham University
MS (Biology), University of Massachusetts
PhD (Biology), University of Massachusetts
Postdoctoral Fellow (Anatomy), New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

Research Expertise:
Phylogeny and evolution of mammals | Vertebrate morphology | Vertebrate paleontology

I study the phylogeny and diversification of mammals. I use data from fossils, morphology, and DNA sequences to determine relationships among different mammal lineages, and to estimate the timing of when different groups split from one another.

Member of:
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Paleontological Society
Society of Systematic Biologists
Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution
Willi Hennig Society
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology

Recent Publications:

Zack, S.P., K.D. Rose, L.T. Holbrook, K. Kumar, R.S. Rana, and T. Smith. (2021) An enigmatic new ungulate-like mammal from the early Eocene of India. Papers in Palaeontology 7:497-520. (First published online October 2019). DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1288

Rose, K.D., L.T. Holbrook , K. Kumar, R.S. Rana, H.E. Ahrens, R.H. Dunn, A. Folie, K.E. Jones, and T. Smith. (2020) Anatomy, relationships, and paleobiology of Cambaytherium (Mammalia, Perissodactylamorpha, Anthracobunia) from the lower Eocene of western India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39:sup1, 1-147. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1761370

Bertrand, O.C., S.L. Shelley, J.R. Wible, T.E. Williamson, L.T. Holbrook, S.G.B. Chester, I.B. Butler, and S.L. Brusatte. (2019) Virtual endocranial and inner ear endocasts of the Paleocene ‘condylarth’ Chriacus: new insight into the neurosensory system and evolution of early placental mammals. Journal of Anatomy 236:21—49. DOI:10.1111/joa.13084

Koenigswald, W. von, K.D. Rose, L.T. Holbrook, K. Kumar, R.S. Rana, and T. Smith. (2018) Mastication and enamel microstructure in Cambaytherium, a perissodactyl-like ungulate from the early Eocene of India. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 92:671—680. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-018-0422-8

Rose, K.D., L.T. Holbrook, and W.P. Luckett (2017) Deciduous premolars of Eocene Equidae and their phylogenetic significance. Historical Biology DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1291637.

Bai, B., J. Meng,  Y-Q Wang, H. Wang, and L.T. Holbrook (2017) Osteology of the Middle Eocene ceratomorph Hyrachyus modestus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 413:1-68.

Jones, K.E., and L.T. Holbrook (2016) The evolution of lateral accessory articulations in the lumbar region of perissodactyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontolology 36(6) DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1224892.

Holbrook, L.T. (2015) The identity and homology of the postprotocrista and its role in molarization of upper premolars of Perissodactyla (Mammalia). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 22:259-269.

Rose, K.D., L.T. Holbrook, R.S. Rana, K. Kumar,  K.E. Jones, H.E. Ahrens, P. Missiaen, A. Sahni, and T. Smith (2014) Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India. Nature Communications 5:5570.

Holbrook, L.T. (2014) On the skull of Radinskya (Mammalia, Phenacolophidae) and its phylogenetic position. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontolology 34:1203-1215.