By Emeritus Professor Suzanne Joan Hand

Books

Archer M; Hand SJ; Long J; Worthy TH, 2023, Prehistoric Australasia Visions of Evolution and Extinction, CSIRO PUBLISHING

Archer M; Brammall J; Field J; Hand SJ; Hook C, 2002, Australia's evolution: 100 million years of change, Australian Museum, Sydney

Long J; Archer M; Flannery TF; Hand SJ, 2002, Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1997, Australia’s Lost World, Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, USA

Hand SJ, 1994, Future of the Fauna of Western New South Wales, Lunney D; Hand SJ; Reed P; Butcher D, (eds.), Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney

Hand SJ, 1993, A Cloud of Bats, Ashton Scholastic, Lisarow, NSW

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1991, Riversleigh: the story of animals in ancient rainforests of inland Australia, Reed Books, Sydney

Hand SJ, 1990, The Care and Handling of Australian Native Animals, Hand SJ, (ed.), Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW

Hand SJ, 1987, The Antipodean Ark, Hand SJ; Archer M, (ed.), Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1986, Uncovering Australia's dreamtime, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW

Book Chapters

Armstrong KN; Hand SJ, 2023, 'Family rhinonycteridae: Trident bats', in Strahan S Mammals of Australia, pp. 572 - 572

Armstrong KN; Augusteyn J; Hall LS; Hand SJ, 2023, 'Ghost bat: Macroderma gigas', in Strahan S Mammals of Australia, pp. 554 - 556

Churchill SK; Hand SJ; Milne DJ; Armstrong KN, 2023, 'Orange diamond-faced bat: Rhinonicteris aurantia', in Strahan S Mammals of Australia, pp. 572 - 573

Richards GC; Hand SJ; Armstrong K; Hall LS, 2013, 'Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas', in Van Dyck S; Gynther IC; Baker AM (ed.), Field Companion to the Mammals of Australia, New Holland, Sydney, pp. 125 - 125

Churchill S; Jolly S; Hand SJ; Milne DJ, 2013, 'Orange Leaf-nosed Bat Rhinonicteris aurantia', in Van Dyck S; Gynther IC; Baker AM (ed.), Field Companion to the Mammals of Australia, New Holland, Sydney, pp. 130 - 130, http://www.newholland.com.au/product.php?isbn=9781877069819

Cook A; Jell J; Archer M; Black KH; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Withnall IW; Vasconcelos PM, 2013, 'Paleogene and Neogene', in Jell P (ed.), Geology of Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD., pp. 577 - 652

Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp H; Creaser P, 2013, 'Riversleigh World Heritage Area', in Jell PA (ed.), Geology of Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 817 - 818, http://mines.industry.qld.gov.au/geoscience/geology-of-queensland.htm

Mooney SD, 2013, 'The Prehistory of Fire in Australasia', in Bradstock RA; Gill AM; Williams RJ (ed.), Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, pp. 3 - 25, http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6836.htm

Sigé B; Maitre E; Hand S, 2012, 'Necromantodonty, the primitive condition of lower molars among bats', in Evolutionary History of Bats Fossils Molecules and Morphology, pp. 456 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139045599.014

Laurie J; McLoughlin S; Hand SJ; Kershaw P; Brock G; Truswell E; Boles WE, 2012, 'Living Australia', in Blewett R; Scott K; Kennett B; Bradshaw M; McFadden P; Cummins P (ed.), Shaping a Continent – Building a Nation: a Geology of Australia, Geosciences Australia, Canberra

Hand SJ; Sige B; Maitre E, 2011, 'Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, large carnivorous Middle and Late Eocene bats from the French Quercy Phosphorites: new data and unresolved relationships', in Gunnell GF; Simmons NB (ed.), Fossils, Molecules and Morphology: the Evolutionary History of Bats, Cambridge University Press, Boston, pp. 210 - 251

Sige B; Maitre E; Hand SJ, 2011, 'Necromantodonty: the primitive condition of molar morphology in bats', in Gunnell GF; Simmons NB (ed.), Fossils, Molecules and Morphology: the Evolutionary History of Bats, Cambridge University Press, Boston, pp. 456 - 469

Hand SJ; Archer M; Bickel D; Creaser P; Dettmann M; Godthelp HJ; Jones A; Norris B; Wicks D, 2010, 'Australian Cape York amber', in Penney D (ed.), Biodiversity of fossils in amber from the major world deposits, Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 69 - 79

Churchill S; Jolly S; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Orange Leafnosed Bat', in Van Dyck S; Strahan R (ed.), The Mammals of Australia, Reed New Holland, Australia, pp. 468 - 469

Hand SJ, 2006, 'Bat beginings and biogeography: The Australasian Record', in Merrick JR; Archer M; Hickey GM; Less MSY (ed.), Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 673 - 704

Archer M; Hand SJ, 2006, 'The Australian Marsupial radiation', in Merrick JR; Archer M; Hickey GM; Less MSY (ed.), Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 575 - 646

Hand SJ; Kirsch JA, 1998, 'A southern origin for the Hipposideridae (Microchiroptera) ? Evidence from the Australian fossil record', in Bat biology and conservation, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, pp. 72 - 90

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1995, 'Tertiary environmental and biotic change in Australia', in Environmental Change and Evolution, Yale University Press, New Haven, USA, pp. 77 - 90

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1994, 'Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats', in Hill R (ed.), History of the Australian Vegetation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 80 - 103

Archer M; Godthelp H; Hand SJ, 1993, 'Early Eocene marsupial from Australia', in Schrenk F; Ernest K (ed.), Kaupia: Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte. Monument Grube Messel--perspectives and relationships, Part 2, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, pp. 193 - 200

Archer M; Murray P; Hand S; Godthelp H, 1993, 'Reconsideration of monotreme relationships based on the skull and dentition of the Miocene Obdurodon dicksoni', in Szalay FS; Novacek MJ; McKenna MC (ed.), Mammal phylogeny: Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians, and marsupials, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 75 - 94

Archer M; Jenkins F; Hand SJ; Murray P; Godthelp H, 1992, 'Description of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n.sp) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins', in Platypus and Echidnas, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Sydney, pp. 15 - 27

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1991, 'Back to the future: the contribution of palaeontology to the conservation of Australian forest faunas', in Lunney D (ed.), Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Sydney, pp. 67 - 80

Archer M; Hand SJ, 1987, 'Evolutionary considerations', in Cronin L (ed.), The Koala: Australia's Endearing Marsupial, Reed Books, Sydney, pp. 79 - 106

Hand SJ, 1985, 'The Nooraleeba bats', in Rich PV; van Tets GF (ed.), Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia, Pioneer Design Studio, Melbourne, pp. 253 - 258

Archer M; Clayton G; Hand SJ, 1984, 'A checklist of Australasian fossil mammals', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 1027 - 1087

Hand SJ, 1984, 'Australia’s oldest rodents: master mariners from Malaysia', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 905 - 912

Archer M; Hand SJ, 1984, 'Background to the search for Australia’s fossil mammals', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 517 - 565

Hand SJ, 1984, 'Bat beginnings and biogeography: a southern perspective', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 853 - 904

Hand SJ, 1983, 'An ancient Australian bat', in Quirk S; Archer M (ed.), Prehistoric Animals of Australia, Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 76 - 77

Rich TH; Archer M; Plane MD; Flannery TF; Pledge NS; Hand SJ; Rich PV, 1982, 'Australian Tertiary mammal localities', in Rich PV; Thompson B (ed.), The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australia, Monash University Offset Printing Unit, Melbourne, pp. 526 - 572

Journal articles

Churchill TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2025, 'A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Middle and Late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland.', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09755-6

Worthy TH; Paul Scofield R; De Pietri VL; Salisbury SW; Schwarzhans W; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2025, 'A synopsis of the Early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand', Geobios, 90, pp. 163 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.03.002

De Pietri VL; Scofield RP; Hand SJ; Archer M; Tennyson AJD; Worthy TH, 2025, 'Early Miocene gull-like birds (Charadriiformes: Laridae) from New Zealand', Geobios, 90, pp. 45 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.08.021

Hand SJ; Wilson LAB; López-Aguirre C; Houssaye A; Archer M; Bevitt JJ; Evans AR; Halim AY; Hung T; Rich TH; Vickers-Rich P; Beck RMD, 2025, 'Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413569122

Farman RM; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2025, 'Early Eocene pelodryadid from the Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, southeastern Queensland, Australia, and a new fossil calibration for molecular phylogenies of frogs', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2477815

Farman RM; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2025, 'New Miocene frogs from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north-western Queensland, and their palaeoecological implications', Historical Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501328

Samonds KE; Simmons NB; Goodman SM; Alumbaugh JL; Hand SJ; Irwin MT; Rasolofomanana N; Gunnell GF, 2025, 'Oldest record of Cenozoic terrestrial vertebrates (Chiroptera) from Madagascar', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2488447

White AW; Gillespie AK; Hand SJ, 2025, 'Wabanbara ringtailensis—a new chelid turtle (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from mid-Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in Australia', Alcheringa, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2477464

De Pietri VL; Paul Scofield R; Hand SJ; Archer M; Worthy TH, 2024, 'A preliminary assessment of the diversity of songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from the Miocene St. Bathans Fauna, New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2400252

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