By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

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

Flannery TF; Archer M; Plane M, 1982, 'Middle Miocene kangaroos ( Macropodoidea: Marsupiala) from three localities in northern Australia, with a description of two new subfamilies.', Bmr Journal of Australian Geology Geophysics, 7, pp. 287 - 302

Baverstock PR; Archer M; Adams M; Richardson BJ, 1982, 'Genetic relationships among 32 species of Australian dasyurid marsupials', Carnivorous marsupials, 2, pp. 641 - 650

Archer M, 1982, 'Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification', Carnivorous marsupials, 2, pp. 397 - 443

Archer M, 1981, 'A review of the origins and radiations of Australian mammals', Ecological biogeography of Australia, 3, pp. 1435 - 1488

Archer M, 1981, 'Systematic revision of the marsupial dasyurid genus Sminthopsis Thomas', Bulletin of the AMNH, 168

Archer M; Crawford IM; Merrilees D, 1980, 'Incisions, breakages and charring, some probably man-made, in fossil bones from mammoth cave, Western Australia', Alcheringa, 4, pp. 115 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518008619643

Rich THV; Archer M, 1979, 'Namilamadeta snideri, a new diprotodontan (Marsupialia, vombatoidea) from the medial miocene of south australia', Alcheringa, 3, pp. 197 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115517908527793

Archer M; Bartholomai A, 1978, 'Tertiary mammals of Australia: A synoptic review', Alcheringa, 2, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115517808619074

Archer M; Bartholomai A; Marshall LG, 1978, 'Propleopus chillagoensis, a new North Queensland species of extinct giant rat–kangaroo (Macropodidae: Potorinae)', Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, pp. 55 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1978.39.04

Archer MICHAEL, 1978, 'The nature of the molar-premolar boundary in marsupials and a reinterpretation of the homology of marsupial cheekteeth', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 18, pp. 157 - 164

Hecht MK; Archer M, 1977, 'Presence of xiphodont crocodilians in the tertiary and pleistocene of Australia', Alcheringa, 1, pp. 383 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115517708527772

GOULD RA; ARCHER M; BRONSTEIN N; MARTIN HA, 1977, 'PUNTUTJARPA ROCKSHELTER AND AUSTRALIAN DESERT CULTURE', ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 54, pp. 5 - 187

ARCHER M, 1976, 'The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), interrelationships of carnivorous marsupials, and affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 59, pp. 217 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb01016.x

Archer M, 1976, 'Application for the suppression of the name Sminthopsis murina var. constricta Spencer, 1896 (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae). Z.N.(S.)2080', The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 33, pp. 127 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.27881

Archer M, 1976, 'Bluff Downs local fauna', The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland, 383, pp. 379 - 397

ARCHER M, 1976, 'DASYURID DENTITION AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS TO THAT OF DIDELPHIDS, THYLACINIDS, BORHYAENIDS (MARSUPICARNIVORA) AND PERAMELIDS (PERAMELINA-MARSUPIALIA)', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, pp. 1 - 34

Covacevich J; Archer M, 1975, 'The distribution of the cane toad, Bufo marinus', Australia and its effects on indigenous vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17, pp. 305 - 310

Archer M, 1974, 'EXCAVATIONS IN THE ORCHESTRA SHELL CAVE, WANNEROO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Part III. Fossil Vertebrate Remains', Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 9, pp. 156 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.1974.tb00196.x

Archer M, 1974, 'Regurgitation or mercyism in the western native cat, Dasyurus geoffroii, and the red-tailed wambenger, Phascogale calura (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae).', Journal of Mammalogy, 55, pp. 448 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1379014

Conference Papers

Archer M; Craig H; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Did young hypercarnivorous marsupial lions (Thylacoleo carnifex) mature into carnivory-challenged adults?', in Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX, USA, pp. 80 - 81, presented at Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Conference 2015, Dallas, TX, USA, 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wilson LAB, 2015, 'Functional and geometric morphometric analysis of a middle Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) skeleton from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX, USA, pp. 91 - 91, presented at Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 75th Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, USA, 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3393

Stein M; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2015, 'A new mekosuchine crocodile displaying extreme longirostry from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia', in 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Program and Abstracts, Alice Springs, presented at 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 02 September 2015 - 05 September 2015

Travouillon KJ; Price GJ; Cramb J; Louys J; Hocknull S; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2015, 'Building a biogeographic map of the fossil bandicoots and bilbies from Pliocene and Quaternary deposits of Australia', in 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Program & Abstracts, Alice Springs, presented at 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 02 September 2015 - 05 September 2015

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Den Boer W; Kear BP; Cooke BN; Archer M, 2015, 'Cranial and skeletal elements of a new species of enigmatic kangaroo (genus Balbaroo) and a re-evaluation of balbarid (Balbaridae: Macropodiformes) taxonomy', Alice Springs, presented at 15th Conference on Auatralasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 01 September 2015 - 05 September 2015, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/unsworks_36965

Cohen DR; Cohen EJ; Archer M; Graham IT; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Geochemical exploration for vertebrate fossils using field portable XRF', Association of Applied Geochemists, Tucson, Arizona, presented at 27th Internat Applied Geochemical Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, 19 April 2015 - 23 April 2015

Travouillon KJ; Cooke BN; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Kear BP; Den Boer W, 2013, 'Oligo–Miocene macropodoids and peramelemorphians: biochronology, palaeoecology and systematics', Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Arena DA, 2013, 'The diversity and biostratigraphy of Riversleigh’s diprotodontoids (Diprotodontidae, Palorchestidae): advances in understanding the biochronology of Australia’s mammal-bearing fossil deposits', Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

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