By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

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

Archer M; Beck RMD; Gott MH; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Black KH, 2011, 'Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, pp. 1498 - 1506

Arena DA; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Hocknull S, 2011, 'Hammer-toothed 'marsupial skinks' from the Australian Cenozoic', Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 278, pp. 3529 - 3533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0486

Archer M, 2011, 'Slaughter of the singing sentients: Measuring the morality of eating red meat', Wildlife and Climate Change: toward robust conservation strategies for Australian fauna, 35, pp. 979 - 982

Travouillon K; Escarguel ; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2011, 'The use of MSR (Minimum Sample Richness) for sample assemblage comparisons.', Paleobiology, 37, pp. 696 - 709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/09050.1

Hand SJ; Weisbecker V; Beck RM; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Tennyson AJD; Worthy TH, 2010, 'Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis about the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's mystacinids', , pp. 162 - 163

Worthy T; Hand SJ; Nguyen J; Tennyson AJD; Worthy JP; Scofield RP; Boles WE; Archer M, 2010, 'Biogeographical and Phylogenetic Implications of an Early Miocene Wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 479 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724631003618033

Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2010, 'First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial—from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 993 - 1011

Worthy TH; Tennyson AJD; Archer M; Scofield RP, 2010, 'First record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand', Records of the Australian Museum, 62, pp. 77 - 88

Soriano C; Archer M; Azar D; Creaser PH; Delclos X; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Jones A; Nel A; Neraudeau D; Ortega-blanco J; Perez-de la Fuente R; Perrichot V; Saupe EE; Kraemer MS; Tafforeau P, 2010, 'Synchrotron X-ray imaging of inclusions in amber', Comptes Rendus Palevol, 9, pp. 361 - 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.014

Louys J; Aplin K; Beck RMD; Archer M, 2009, 'Cranial anatomy of oligo-miocene koalas (Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae): Stages in the evolution of an extreme leaf-eating specialization', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29, pp. 981 - 992, http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/039.029.0412

Sige B; Archer M; Crochet J-Y; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Beck RMD, 2009, 'Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials', Geobios, 42, pp. 813 - 823

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Nguyen J; Worthy J; Tennyson AJD; Scofield R; Boles WE; Archer M, 2009, 'Early Miocene acanthisittid wren from St Bathans Fauna, Otago, NZ', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 479 - 498

Lee MS; Hutchinson MN; Worthy T; Archer M; Tennyson AJD; Worthy J; Scofield RP, 2009, 'Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna.', Biology Letters, 5, pp. 833 - 837

Roberts KK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2009, 'NEW AUSTRALIAN OLIGOCENE TO MIOCENE RINGTAIL POSSUMS (PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE) AND REVISION OF THE GENUS MARLU', Palaeontology, 52, pp. 441 - 456

Travouillon K; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2009, 'Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh`s Oligo-Miocene sites: Implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia', Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 276, pp. 24 - 37

Bassarova MP; Janis C; Archer M, 2009, 'The calcaneum-on the heels of marsupial locomotion', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 16, pp. 1 - 23

Beck RM; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Mackness BS; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2008, 'A bizarre new family of marsupialia (incertae sedis) from the early Pliocene of northeastern Australia: Implications for the phylogeny of bunodont marsupials', Journal of Paleontology, 82, pp. 749 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/06-124.1

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Additional specimens of the oldest wombat Rhizophascolonus crowcrofti (vombatidae; Marsupialia) from the Wipajiri Formation, South Australia: An intermediate morphology?', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28, pp. 1144 - 1148

Beck RM; Godthelp HJ; Weisbecker V; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Australia`s oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications', PLoS One, 3

Roberts KK; Bassarova MP; Archer M, 2008, 'Oligo-Miocene ringtail possums of the genus Paljara (Pseudocheiridae: Marsupialia) from Queensland, Australia', Geobios, 41, pp. 833 - 844

Weisbecker V; Archer M, 2008, 'Parallel evolution of hand anatomy in kangaroos and vombatiform marsupials: Functional and evolutionary implications', Palaeontology, 51, pp. 321 - 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00750.x

Roberts KK; Archer M, 2007, 'A morphological approach to unravelling the relationships of ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia)', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, pp. 136A - 136A

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'A new species of the wombat Warendja from late Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, North-West Queensland, Australia', Palaeontology, 50, pp. 811 - 828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00678.x

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