By Professor Michael Archer

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

Worthy TH; Scofield RP; Worthy JP; De Pietri VL; Archer M, 2025, 'Parastacid (Decapoda, Parastacidae) fossil mandible remains from the Early Miocene, New Zealand', Alcheringa, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2488056

Souilmi Y; Wasef S; Williams MP; Conroy G; Bar I; Bover P; Dann J; Heiniger H; Llamas B; Ogbourne S; Archer M; Ballard JOW; Reed E; Tobler R; Koungoulos L; Walshe K; Wright JL; Balme J; O’Connor S; Cooper A; Mitchell KJ, 2024, 'Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407584121

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

Jackson SM; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Archer M; Hand SJ; Helgen KM; Fitzgerald EMG; Price GJ, 2024, 'An annotated checklist of Australasian fossil mammals', Alcheringa, 48, pp. 548 - 746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2434062

Churchill TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2024, 'Three new thylacinids (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) from late Oligocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2384595

Wilson LAB; López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Hand SJ; Flores D; Abdala F; Giannini NP, 2023, 'Patterns of ontogenetic evolution across extant marsupials reflect different allometric pathways to ecomorphological diversity', Nature Communications, 14, pp. 2689, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38365-0

Hand SJ; Archer M; Gillespie A; Myers T, 2023, 'Xenorhinos bhatnagari sp. nov., a new, nasal-emitting trident bat (Rhinonycteridae, Rhinolophoidea) from early Miocene forests in northern Australia', Anatomical Record, 306, pp. 2693 - 2715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.25210

Farman RM; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2023, 'A geometric morphometric analysis of variation in Australian frog ilia and taxonomic interpretations', Journal of Morphology, 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21642

Chinsamy A; Black KH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2023, 'Paleobiological implications of the bone histology of the extinct Australian marsupial Nimbadon lavarackorum', Journal of Paleontology, 97, pp. 722 - 734, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2023.22

White AW; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H; Gillespie AK, 2023, 'A new broad-snouted fossil carettochelyid turtle from a previously unknown Caenozoic deposit in Sarawak, Malaysia', Alcheringa, 47, pp. 614 - 623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2243503

Fabian PR; Archer M; Hand SJ; Beck RMD, 2023, 'First known extinct feathertail possums (Acrobatidae, Marsupialia): palaeobiodiversity, phylogenetics, palaeoecology and palaeogeography', Alcheringa, 47, pp. 484 - 505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2242439

DeSantis L; Archer M; Black K; Hand S; Korasidis V, 2023, 'Tree-climbing in search of fruit: an ancient arboreal marsupial megafrugivore from the Miocene of Australia', Alcheringa, 47, pp. 534 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2268680

WORTHY TH; Scofield RP; HAND SJ; DE PIETRI VL; Archer M, 2022, 'A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand', Zootaxa, 5168, pp. 39 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5168.1.3

Worthy TH; Scofield RP; Salisbury SW; Hand SJ; De Pietri VL; Archer M, 2022, 'Two new neoavian taxa with contrasting palaeobiogeographical implications from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand', Journal of Ornithology, 163, pp. 643 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-01981-6

Worthy TH; Scofield RP; Salisbury SW; Hand SJ; De Pietri VL; Blokland JC; Archer M, 2022, 'A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand', Geobios, 70, pp. 87 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.08.002

Churchill TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Myers T; Gillespie A; Beck RMD, 2022, 'A new diminutive durophagous Miocene dasyuromorphian (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2170804

Travouillon KJ; Butler K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2022, 'Two new species of the genus Gumardee (Marsupialia, Macropodiformes) reveal the repeated evolution of bilophodonty in kangaroos', Alcheringa, 46, pp. 105 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.2012595

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M; Scofield RP; De Pietri VL, 2021, 'Erratum: Correction to 'Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand' (Biology letters (2019) 15 8 (20190467))', Biology Letters, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0608

Price GJ; Fitzsimmons KE; Nguyen AD; Zhao JX; Feng YX; Sobbe IH; Godthelp H; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2021, 'New ages of the world's largest-ever marsupial: Diprotodon optatum from Pleistocene Australia', Quaternary International, 603, pp. 64 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.013

Butler K; Travouillon KJ; Evans AR; Murphy L; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Weisbecker V, 2021, '3D Morphometric Analysis Reveals Similar Ecomorphs for Early Kangaroos (Macropodidae) and Fanged Kangaroos (Balbaridae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 28, pp. 199 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09507-8

Weisbecker V; Rowe T; Wroe S; Macrini TE; Garland KLS; Travouillon KJ; Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Berlin JC; Beck RMD; Ladevèze S; Sharp AC; Mardon K; Sherratt E, 2021, 'Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls', Evolution, 75, pp. 625 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14163

King TR; Myers TJ; Armstrong KN; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2021, 'Sheath-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from the early Pleistocene Rackham's Roost Site, Riversleigh World Heritage Area, and the distribution of northern Australian emballonurid species', Peerj, 9, pp. e10857, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10857

Jackson SM; Fleming PJS; Eldridge MDB; Archer M; Ingleby S; Johnson RN; Helgen KM, 2021, 'Taxonomy of the Dingo: It’s an ancient dog', Australian Zoologist, 41, pp. 347 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.049

Beck RMD; Louys J; Brewer P; Archer M; Black KH; Tedford RH, 2020, 'A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes)', Scientific Reports, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66425-8

da Costa J; Cohen DR; Magalhães MCF; Hibbert DB; Archer M; Myers TJ; Hand SJ, 2020, 'Siderophore-Assisted Dissolution of Iron(III) Hydroxide Oxides from Iron-Rich Fossil Matrices', Chempluschem, 85, pp. 1747 - 1753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000407

Stein M; Hand S; Archer M; Wroe S; Wilson L, 2020, 'Quantitatively assessing mekosuchine crocodile locomotion by geometric morphometric and finite element analysis of the forelimb', PeerJ, 2020, pp. e9349, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9349

Sansalone G; Castiglione S; Raia P; Archer M; Dickson B; Hand S; Piras P; Profico A; Wroe S, 2020, 'Decoupling Functional and Morphological Convergence, the Study Case of Fossorial Mammalia', Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00112

Weisbecker V; Rowe T; Wroe S; Macrini T; Garland K; Travouillon K; Black K; Archer M; Hand S; Berlin J; Beck RMD; Ladevèze S; Sharp A; Mardon K; Sherratt E, 2020, 'Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.06.410928

Archer M; Bates H; Hand SJ; Evans T; Broome L; McAllan B; Geiser F; Jackson S; Myers T; Gillespie A; Palmer C; Hawke T; Horn AM, 2019, 'The Burramys project: A conservationist's reach should exceed history's grasp, or what is the fossil record for?', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 374, pp. 20190221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0221

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2019, 'Lekaneleo, a new genus of marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the Oligocene–Miocene of Australia, and the craniodental morphology of L. roskellyae, comb. nov.', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1703722

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M; Paul Scofield R; De Pietri VL, 2019, 'Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand', Biology Letters, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0467

Oommen MA; Cooney R; Ramesh M; Archer M; Brockington D; Buscher B; Fletcher R; Natusch DJD; Vanak AT; Webb G; Shanker K, 2019, 'The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation', Conservation Biology, 33, pp. 784 - 787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13329

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Laffan SW; Archer M, 2019, 'Zoogeographical regions and geospatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism of New World bats', Ecography, 42, pp. 1188 - 1199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04194

Bino G; Kingsford RT; Archer M; Connolly JH; Day J; Dias K; Goldney D; Gongora J; Grant T; Griffiths J; Hawke T; Klamt M; Lunney D; Mijangos L; Munks S; Sherwin W; Serena M; Temple-Smith P; Thomas J; Williams G; Whittington C, 2019, 'The platypus: Evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future', Journal of Mammalogy, 100, pp. 308 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz058

Sniderman JMK; Hellstrom J; Woodhead JD; Drysdale RN; Bajo P; Archer M; Hatcher L, 2019, 'Vegetation and Climate Change in Southwestern Australia During the Last Glacial Maximum', Geophysical Research Letters, 46, pp. 1709 - 1720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080832

Thorn KM; Hutchinson MN; Archer M; Lee MSY, 2019, 'A new scincid lizard from the Miocene of northern Australia, and the evolutionary history of social skinks (Scincidae: Egerniinae)', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1577873

Hawke T; Bates H; Hand S; Archer M; Broome L, 2019, 'Dietary analysis of an uncharacteristic population of the Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) in the Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia', Peerj, 2019, pp. e6307, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6307

Butler K; Travouillon KJ; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2018, 'Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae).', Palaeontologia Electronica, 21.1.8A, pp. 1 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/747

Lopez-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Laffan S; Archer M, 2018, 'Phylogenetic diversity, differential endemism and the evolutionary history of New World bats', Ecography, 41, pp. 1955 - 1966, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03260

Mather E; Tennyson AJD; Scofield RP; DePietri VL; Hand SJ; Archer M; Handley WD; Worthy TH, 2018, 'Flightless rails (Aves: Rallidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, Otago, New Zealand', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17, pp. 423 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1432710

Hand SJ; Beck RMD; Archer M; Simmons NB; Gunnell GF; Scofield RP; Tennyson AJD; De Pietri VL; Salisbury SW; Worthy TH, 2018, 'A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand', Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand S; Price GJ, 2018, 'A new species of miocene wombat (Marsupialia, vombatiformes) from riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the vombatidae', Palaeontologia Electronica, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/870

Nguyen JMT; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2018, 'Quail-thrush birds from the Miocene of northern Australia', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63, pp. 493 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/APP.00485.2018

Greenville A; Burns E; Archer M; Hand S; O’Donnell J; Stephens R; Prater L; Mott L; Flemons P; Willis P; Fleming P; Haythornthwaite A; Ross G, 2018, 'The critical value of long term field studies and datasets - Plenary 4', Australian Zoologist, 39, pp. 801 - 808, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.050

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