By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

Archer M; Black K; Nettle K, 1997, 'Giant ringtail possums (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae) and giant koalas (Phascolarctidae) from the late Cainozoic of Australia', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 117, pp. 3 - 15

Lunney D; Pressey B; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Curtin A, 1997, 'Integrating ecology and economics: illustrating the need to resolve conflicts of space and time', Ecological Economics, pp. 135 - 143

Myers TJ; Archer M, 1997, 'Kuterintja ngama (Marsupialia, Ilariidae): a revised systematic analysis based on fossil material from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, pp. 379 - 392

Archer M, 1997, 'Messing with mammalian meanderings', Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 72, pp. 7 - 7

Black K; Archer M, 1997, 'Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, pp. 209 - 228

Muirhead J; Dawson LJ; Archer M, 1997, 'Perameles bowensis, a new species of Perameles (Peramelemorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington Caves', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 117, pp. 163 - 173

Scanlon JD; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 1997, 'Preliminary biostratigraphic analysis of snakes from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Queensland', Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 72, pp. 65 - 65

Black K; Archer M, 1997, 'Silvabestius gen. nov., primitive zygomaturines (Marsupialia, Diprotodontidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, pp. 193 - 208

Archer M, 1997, 'The flesh-eating kangaroo', Highlife, 130, pp. 130 - 130

Archer M, 1997, 'The lengthening limits of life', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M, 1997, 'Tickling the dull out of taxonomy', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M, 1997, 'Tiger, tiger out of sight', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M; Hand SJ; Unknown ; Godthelp H, 1997, 'Unrolling the prehistoric scrolls of prophecy-roos and rocks rule', Landcare Australia Yearbook, pp. 12 - 15

Archer M, 1997, 'Vertebrate palaeontology, School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales', Nomen Nudum, pp. 35 - 44

Archer M, 1997, 'Worries about withering wombats', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M, 1996, 'Crocodile dinners and diners', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M, 1996, 'Evolution after death', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M, 1996, 'Possum patterns plucked from stone', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Flannery TF; Archer M; Rich TH; Jones R, 1995, 'A new family of monotremes from the cretaceous of Australia', Nature, pp. 418 - 420

Wroe S; Archer M, 1995, 'Extraordinary diphyodonty-related change in dental function for a tooth of the extinct marsupial ekaltadeta ima (Propleopinae, hypsiprymnodontidae)', Archives of Oral Biology, pp. 597 - 603

Hand S; Novacek M; Godthelp H; Archer M, 1994, 'First eocene bat from Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 14, pp. 375 - 381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1994.10011565

ARCHER M, 1994, 'Mammals Eggstraordinaire', Natural History, 103, pp. 48 - 49, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=A1994ND06000006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

ARCHER M, 1994, 'WORLD FURRY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONS', NATURAL HISTORY, 103, pp. 44 - 47, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1994ND06000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Boles WE; Godthelp H; Hand S; Archer M, 1994, 'Palaeontological note: Earliest australian non-marine bird assemblage from the early eocene tingamurra local fauna, murgon, Southeastern Queensland', Alcheringa, 18, pp. 70 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.1994.9638764

Godthelp H; Archer M; Cifelli R; Hand SJ; Gilkeson CF, 1992, 'Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna', Nature, 356, pp. 514 - 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/356514a0

Pascual R; Archer M; Jaureguizar EO; Prado JL; Godthelp H; Hand SJ, 1992, 'First discovery of monotremes in South America', Nature, 356, pp. 704 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/356704a0

Gaffney ES; Archer M; White A, 1992, 'Warkalania, a new meiolaniid turtle from the Tertiary Riversleigh deposits of Queensland, Australia', The Beagle : Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 9, pp. 35 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/p.263116

Scally KB; Knox GA; Archer M, 1991, 'BRUXISM', Australian Dental Journal, 36, pp. 406 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1834-7819.1991.tb01369.x

Kirsch JAW; Springer MS; Krajewski C; Archer M; Aplin K; Dickerman AW, 1990, 'DNA/DNA hybridization studies of the carnivorous marsupials. I: The intergeneric relationships of bandicoots (Marsupialia: Perameloidea)', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 30, pp. 434 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02101115

Willis PMA; Archer M, 1990, 'A Pleistocene longirostrine crocodilian from Riversleigh: first fossil occurrence of Crocodylus johnstoni Krefft', Memoirs Queensland Museum, 28, pp. 159 - 163

Kirsch JAW; Krajewski C; Springer MS; Archer M, 1990, 'DNA-DNA hybridisation studies of carnivorous marsupials. II. relationships among dasyurids (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)', Australian Journal of Zoology, 38, pp. 341 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO9900673

Muirhead J; Archer M, 1990, 'Nimbacinus dicksoni, a plesiomorphic thylacine (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Tertiary deposits of Queensland and the Northern Territory', Memoirs Queensland Museum, 28, pp. 203 - 221

Archer M; Every RG; Godthelp H; Hand SJ; Scally KB, 1990, 'Yingabalanaridae, a new family of enigmatic mammals from Tertiary deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs Queensland Museum, 28, pp. 193 - 202

Rich TH; Flannery TF; Archer M, 1989, 'A second Cretaceous mammalian specimen from Lightning Ridge, N.S.W., Australia', Alcheringa, 13, pp. 85 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518908619043

Archer M; Godthelp H; Hand SJ; Megirian D, 1989, 'Fossil mammals of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland: preliminary overview of biostratigraphy, correlation and environmental change', Australian Zoologist, 25, pp. 29 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/az.1989.001

Lester KS; Archer M; Gilkeson CF; Rich T, 1988, 'Enamel of Yalkaparidon coheni: representative of a distinctive order of tertiary zalambdodont marsupials.', Scanning Microscopy, 2, pp. 1491 - 1501

Archer M; Hand S; Godthelp H, 1988, 'A new order of tertiary zalambdodont marsupials', Science, 239, pp. 1528 - 1531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.239.4847.1528

Lester KS; Boyde A; Gilkeson C; Archer M, 1987, 'MARSUPIAL AND MONOTREME ENAMEL STRUCTURE.', Scanning Micros, 1, pp. 401 - 420

Aplin KP; Archer M, 1987, 'Recent advances in marsupial systematics with a new syncretic classification', Possums and opossums: studies in evolution, 1, pp. 15 - 72

Archer M; Hand S; Godthelp H, 1986, 'Uncovering Australia's dreamtime.', Uncovering Australia's dreamtime.

Lester KS; Archer M, 1986, 'A description of the molar enamel of a middle Miocene monotreme (Obdurodon, Ornithorhynchidae)', Anatomy and Embryology, 174, pp. 145 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00824329

Archer M; Flannery TF; Ritchie A; Molnar RE, 1985, 'First Mesozoic mammal from Australia - An early Cretaceous monotreme', Nature, 318, pp. 363 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/318363a0

Archer M; Flannery T, 1985, 'Revision of the extinct gigantic rat kangaroos (Potoroidae:Marsupialia), with description of a new Miocene genus and species and a new Pleistocene species of Propleopus ( Australia).', Journal of Paleontology, 59, pp. 1331 - 1349

Woodburne MO; Tedford RH; Archer M; Turnbull WD; Plane MD; Lundelius EL, 1985, 'Biochronology of the continental mammal record of Australia and New Guinea', Special Publication of the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, 5, pp. 347 - 363

Baverstock PR; Adams M; Archer M, 1984, 'Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in the sminthopsis murina complex (Dasyuridae)', Australian Journal of Zoology, 32, pp. 721 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO9840823

Flannery TF; Archer M, 1984, 'The macropodoids (Marsupialia) of the early Pliocene Bow local fauna, central eastern New South Wales.', Australian Zoologist, 21, pp. 357 - 383

FLANNERY TF; ARCHER M; PLANE M, 1984, 'PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS AND A RECONSIDERATION OF HIGHER LEVEL SYSTEMATICS WITHIN THE POTOROIDAE (MARSUPIALIA)', JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 58, pp. 1087 - 1097

Archer M; Hand SJ, 1984, 'The Australian marsupial radiation', Vertebrate Zoogeography & Evolution in Australasia.(Animals in Space & Time). Hesperian Press: Carlisle, pp. 633 - 808

Baverstock PR; Adams M; Archer M; McKenzie NL; How R, 1983, 'An electroporetic and chromosomal study of the dasyurid marsupial genus ningaui archer', Australian Journal of Zoology, 31, pp. 381 - 392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO9830381

Flannery TF; Archer M, 1983, 'Revision of the genus troposodon bartholomai (Macropodidae: Marsupialia)', Alcheringa, 7, pp. 263 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518308619612

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