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Books
2023, Prehistoric Australasia Visions of Evolution and Extinction, CSIRO PUBLISHING
,2002, Australia's evolution: 100 million years of change, Australian Museum, Sydney
,2002, Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington
,1997, Australia’s Lost World, Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, USA
,1994, Future of the Fauna of Western New South Wales, Lunney D; Hand SJ; Reed P; Butcher D, (eds.), Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney
,1993, A Cloud of Bats, Ashton Scholastic, Lisarow, NSW
,1991, Riversleigh: the story of animals in ancient rainforests of inland Australia, Reed Books, Sydney
,1990, The Care and Handling of Australian Native Animals, Hand SJ, (ed.), Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW
,1987, The Antipodean Ark, Hand SJ; Archer M, (ed.), Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
,1986, Uncovering Australia's dreamtime, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW
,Book Chapters
2013, 'Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas', in Van Dyck S; Gynther IC; Baker AM (ed.), Field Companion to the Mammals of Australia, New Holland, Sydney, pp. 125 - 125
,2013, 'Orange Leaf-nosed Bat Rhinonicteris aurantia', in Van Dyck S; Gynther IC; Baker AM (ed.), Field Companion to the Mammals of Australia, New Holland, Sydney, pp. 130 - 130, http://www.newholland.com.au/product.php?isbn=9781877069819
,2013, 'Paleogene and Neogene', in Jell P (ed.), Geology of Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD., pp. 577 - 652
,2013, 'Riversleigh World Heritage Area', in Jell PA (ed.), Geology of Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 817 - 818, http://mines.industry.qld.gov.au/geoscience/geology-of-queensland.htm
,2013, 'The Prehistory of Fire in Australasia', in Bradstock RA; Gill AM; Williams RJ (ed.), Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, pp. 3 - 25, http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6836.htm
,2012, 'Necromantodonty, the primitive condition of lower molars among bats', in Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology, pp. 456 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139045599.014
,2012, 'Living Australia', in Blewett R; Scott K; Kennett B; Bradshaw M; McFadden P; Cummins P (ed.), Shaping a Continent – Building a Nation: a Geology of Australia, edn. Original, Geosciences Australia, Canberra
,2011, 'Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, large carnivorous Middle and Late Eocene bats from the French Quercy Phosphorites: new data and unresolved relationships', in Gunnell GF; Simmons NB (ed.), Fossils, Molecules and Morphology: the Evolutionary History of Bats, Cambridge University Press, Boston, pp. 210 - 251
,2011, 'Necromantodonty: the primitive condition of molar morphology in bats', in Gunnell GF; Simmons NB (ed.), Fossils, Molecules and Morphology: the Evolutionary History of Bats, edn. Original, Cambridge University Press, Boston, pp. 456 - 469
,2010, 'Australian Cape York amber', in Penney D (ed.), Biodiversity of fossils in amber from the major world deposits, Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 69 - 79
,2008, 'Orange Leafnosed Bat', in Van Dyck S; Strahan R (ed.), The Mammals of Australia, edn. 3rd, Reed New Holland, Australia, pp. 468 - 469
,2006, 'Bat beginings and biogeography: The Australasian Record', in Merrick JR; Archer M; Hickey GM; Less MSY (ed.), Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, edn. Original, Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 673 - 704
,2006, 'The Australian Marsupial radiation', in Merrick JR; Archer M; Hickey GM; Less MSY (ed.), Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 575 - 646
,1998, 'A southern origin for the Hipposideridae (Microchiroptera) ? Evidence from the Australian fossil record', in Bat biology and conservation, edn. Original, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, pp. 72 - 90
,1995, 'Tertiary environmental and biotic change in Australia', in Environmental Change and Evolution, Yale University Press, New Haven, USA, pp. 77 - 90
,1994, 'Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats', in Hill R (ed.), History of the Australian Vegetation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 80 - 103
,1993, 'Early Eocene marsupial from Australia', in Schrenk F; Ernest K (ed.), Kaupia: Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte. Monument Grube Messel--perspectives and relationships, Part 2, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, pp. 193 - 200
,1993, 'Reconsideration of monotreme relationships based on the skull and dentition of the Miocene Obdurodon dicksoni', in Szalay FS; Novacek MJ; McKenna MC (ed.), Mammal phylogeny: Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians, and marsupials, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 75 - 94
,1992, 'Description of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n.sp) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins', in Platypus and Echidnas, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Sydney, pp. 15 - 27
,1991, 'Back to the future: the contribution of palaeontology to the conservation of Australian forest faunas', in Lunney D (ed.), Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Sydney, pp. 67 - 80
,1987, 'Evolutionary considerations', in Cronin L (ed.), The Koala: Australia's Endearing Marsupial, Reed Books, Sydney, pp. 79 - 106
,1985, 'The Nooraleeba bats', in Rich PV; van Tets GF (ed.), Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia, Pioneer Design Studio, Melbourne, pp. 253 - 258
,1984, 'A checklist of Australasian fossil mammals', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 1027 - 1087
,1984, 'Australia’s oldest rodents: master mariners from Malaysia', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 905 - 912
,1984, 'Background to the search for Australia’s fossil mammals', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 517 - 565
,1984, 'Bat beginnings and biogeography: a southern perspective', in Archer M; Clayton G (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, Hesperian Press, Perth, pp. 853 - 904
,1983, 'An ancient Australian bat', in Quirk S; Archer M (ed.), Prehistoric Animals of Australia, Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 76 - 77
,1982, 'Australian Tertiary mammal localities', in Rich PV; Thompson B (ed.), The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australia, Monash University Offset Printing Unit, Melbourne, pp. 526 - 572
,Journal articles
2024, 'A synopsis of the Early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand', Geobios, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.03.002
,2024, 'Three new thylacinids (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) from late Oligocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2384595
,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
,2023, 'A 50-million-year-old, three-dimensionally preserved bat skull supports an early origin for modern echolocation', Current Biology, 33, pp. 4624 - 4640.e21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.043
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2023, 'A new Eocene species of presbyornithid (Aves, Anseriformes) from Murgon, Australia', Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2184491
,2022, 'Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 29, pp. 531 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09606-8
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