By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

Archer M; Christmas O; Hand SJ; Black KH; Creaser P; Godthelp HJ; Cohen DR; Graham IT; Arena DA; Anderson C; Soares G; Machin N; Beck RMD; Wilson L; Myers TJ; Gillespie AK; Khoo B; Travouillon KJ; Wijaya L, 2016, 'Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 137 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.13

Nguyen JT; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'The late Cenozoic passerine avifauna from Rackham’s Roost Site, Riversleigh, Australia', Records of the Australian Museum, 68, pp. 201 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.68.2016.1668

Pian RM; Archer M; Hand SJ; Beck RMD; Cody A, 2016, 'The upper dentition and relationships of the enigmatic Australian Cretaceous mammal Kollikodon ritchiei', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 97 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.10

Chamberlain PM; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum gen.et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia), from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia', Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1103525

Hand SJ; Lee DE; Worthy TH; Archer M; Worthy JP; Tennyson AJD; Salisbury SW; Scofield RP; Mildenhall DC; Kennedy EM; Lindqvist JK, 2015, 'Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand's endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat', Plos One, 10, pp. e0128871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128871

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2015, 'Sexually Dimorphic Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) From the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, First Cranial Ontogeny for Fossil Bandicoots and New Species Descriptions', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 22, pp. 141 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-014-9271-8

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa, 39, pp. 274 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.994115

Worthy TH; Handley T; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'The extinct flightless mihirungs (Aves: Dromornithidae): cranial anatomy, a new species and assessment of Oligo-Miocene lineage diversity', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Abel R, 2015, 'New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia).', Palaeontologia Electronica, 18, pp. 8A

Hand SJ; Sige, B ; Archer M; Gunnell GF; Simmons NB, 2015, 'A new early Eocene (Ypresian) bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with comments on patterns of diversity in the earliest chiropterans', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 22, pp. 343 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9

Arena DA; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Black KH; Gillespie AK; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Lethaia, 49, pp. 43 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/let.12131

Stein M; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Dwarfism and feeding behaviours in Oligo–Miocene crocodiles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00134.2014

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo, from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 39, pp. 274 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.994115

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Den Boer W; Kear BP; Cooke BN; Archer M, 2014, 'A New Species of the Basal ‘‘Kangaroo’’ Balbaroo and a Re-Evaluation of Stem Macropodiform Interrelationships', PLoS One, 9, pp. e112705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112705

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2014, 'New material referable to Wakaleo (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions', Alcheringa, 38, pp. 513 - 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.908268

Rozefelds AC; Dettmann ME; Clifford HT; Hocknull S; Newman N; Godthelp H; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2014, 'Traditional and computed tomographic (CT) techniques link modern and Cenozoic fruits of Pleiogynium (Anacardiaceae) from Australia', Alcheringa, 39, pp. 24 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.951916

Cooke BN; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Ganguroo robustiter sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Matzke-Karasz R, 2014, 'Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia', Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0394

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2014, 'New material referable to Wakaleo (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 38, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.908268

Matzke-Karasz R; Neil JV; Smith RJ; Symonova R; Morkovsky L; Archer M; Hand SJ; Cloetens P; Tafforeau P, 2014, 'Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0394

Gurovich Y; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Muirhead J; Archer M, 2014, 'Biogeographical implications of a new mouse-sized fossil bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) occupying a dasyurid-like ecological niche across Australia', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 12, pp. 265 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2013.776646

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2014, 'Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (Marsupialia, Peramelidae and Thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34, pp. 375 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.799071

Nguyen JMT; Boles WE; Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2014, 'New specimens of the logrunner Orthonyx kaldowinyeri (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia', Alcheringa, 38, pp. 245 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.861732

O'Hare Doig RL; Bartlett CA; Maghzal GJ; Lam M; Archer M; Stocker R; Fitzgerald M, 2014, 'Reactive species and oxidative stress in optic nerve vulnerable to secondary degeneration', Experimental Neurology, 261, pp. 136 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.06.007

Woodhead J; Hand SJ; Archer M; Graham I; Sniderman K; Arena DA; Black KH; Godthelp H; Creaser P; Price E, 2014, 'Developing a radiometrically-dated chronologic sequence for Neogene biotic change in Australia, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of Queensland', Gondwana Research, 29, pp. 153 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.004

Arena DA; Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H; Creaser P, 2014, 'Reconstructing a Miocene pitfall trap: recognition and interpretation of fossiliferous Cenozoic palaeokarst', Sedimentary Geology, 304, pp. 28 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.01.005

Travouillon KJ; Cooke BN; Archer M; Hand SJ , 2014, 'Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species', Palaeontologia Electronica, 17, pp. 1 - 34, http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2014/711-riversleigh-basal-macropodoids

Bates HL; Travouillon KJ; Cooke B; Beck RMD; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2014, 'Three new Miocene species of musky rat-kangaroos (Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodoidea): description, phylogenetics and palaeoecology', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34, pp. 383 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.812098

Attard MRG; Parr W; Wilson LAB; Archer M; Hand SJ; Rogers TL; Wroe S; Wijaya L, 2014, 'Virtual reconstruction and prey size preference in the mid Cenozoic thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia)', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e93088, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093088

Nguyen JMT; Worthy TH; Boles WE; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'A new cracticid (Passeriformes:Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia', Emu, 113, pp. 374 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MU13017

Pian R; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2013, 'A new, giant platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1255 - 1259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.782876

Hand SJ; Worthy TH; Archer M; Worthy JP; Tennyson AJD; Paul Scofield R, 2013, 'Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1442 - 1448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.775950

Beck RMD; Travouillon KJ; Aplin KP; Godthelp H; Archer M, 2013, 'The Osteology and Systematics of the Enigmatic Australian Oligo-Miocene Metatherian Yalkaparidon (Yalkaparidontidae; Yalkaparidontia; ?Australidelphia; Marsupialia)', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-013-9236-3

Cummins N; Bartlett CA; Archer M; Bartlett E; Hemmi JM; Harvey AR; Dunlop SA; Fitzgerald M, 2013, 'Changes to mitochondrial ultrastructure in optic nerve vulnerable to secondary degeneration in vivo are limited by irradiation at 670 nm', BMC Neuroscience, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-98

Wroe S; Field JH; Archer M; Grayson DK; Price GJ; Louys J; Faith JT; Webb GE; Davidson I; Mooney SD, 2013, 'Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, pp. E3369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1310440110

Wroe S; Field JH; Archer M; Grayson DK; Price GJ; Louys J; Faith JT; Webb GE; Davidson I; Mooney SD, 2013, 'Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene australia-new guinea)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, pp. 8777 - 8781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302698110

Black KH; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2013, 'Bearing up well? Understanding the past, present and future of Australia’s koalas', Gondwana Research, 25, pp. 1186 - 1201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.12.008

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'Phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Oligo-Miocene ratite Casuariidae', Integrative Zoology, pp. no - no, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12050

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2013, 'Revision in the marsupial diprotodontid genus Neohelos: systematics and biostratigraphy', ACTA Palaeontologica Polonica, 58, pp. 679 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0001

Travouillon K; Beck RM; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'The oldest fossil record of bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the late Oligocene of Australia', Palaeontologia Electronica, 16, pp. 1 - 52, http://zoobank.org/References/A47937B6-444F-4BF1-B66A-0ECDE2E6BC27

Travouillon K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'Early to Middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia: comment', Geology, 40, pp. e273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G32600C.1

Black KH; Camens AB; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'Herds overhead: Nimbadon lavarackorum (Diprotodontidae), heavyweight marsupial herbivores in the Miocene forests of Australia', PLoS ONE, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048213

Stein MM; Salisbury DS; Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Humeral morphology of the early Eocene mekosuchine crocodile Kambara from the Tingamarra Local Fauna southeastern Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'New Tertiary koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, Australia with a revision of phascolarctid phylogenetics, paleoecology and paleobiodiversity', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32, pp. 125 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.626825

Clulow J; Clulow S; Guo J; French AJ; Mahony MJ; Archer M, 2012, 'Optimisation of an oviposition protocol employing human chorionic and pregnant mare serum gonadotrophins in the Barred Frog Myxophyes fasciolatus (Myobatrachidae)', Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Matzke-Karasz R; Neil JV; Smith RJ; Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Ostracods (Crustacea) with soft part preservation from Miocene cave deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia', Journal of Systematic Paleontology

Goff J; Chague-Goff C; Archer M; Dominey-Howes D; Turney C, 2012, 'The Eltanin asteroid impact – possible South Pacific palaeotmegasunami footprint and potential implications for the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition', Journal of Quaternary Science, 27, pp. 660 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2571

Travouillon DK; Gurovich DY; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2012, 'The genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh’s Miocene deposits, north-western Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 153 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/039.033.0114

Travouillon DK; Gurovich DY; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2012, 'The temporally and environmentally restricted genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the Oligo-Miocene of northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Mackness BS; Archer M, 2011, 'A new petauroid possum (Marsupialia, Pseudocheridae) from the Pliocene Bluff Downs local fauna, northern Queensland', Alcheringa, 25, pp. 439 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510108619233

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