By Emeritus Professor Suzanne Joan Hand

Journal articles

Myers TJ; Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2017, 'The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques', PeerJ, 2017, pp. e3511, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3511

Stein MD; Yates A; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2017, 'Variation in the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Australian Oligo-Miocene mekosuchine crocodiles with implications for locomotion and habitus', PeerJ, 2017, pp. e3501, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3501

Cohen DR; Cohen EJ; Graham I; Soares GG; Hand SJ; Archer , 2017, 'Geochemical exploration for vertebrate fossils using field portable XRF', Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 181, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2017.06.012

Armstrong KN; Goodman SM; Benda P; Hand SJ, 2016, 'A common name for the bat family Rhinonycteridae—the Trident Bats', Zootaxa, 4179, pp. 115 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.7

Asahara M; Koizumi M; Macrini TE; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: feeding behaviour, electroreception, and loss of teeth', Science Advances, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601329

Wilson LAB; Hand SJ; López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Black KH; Beck RMD; Armstrong KN; Wroe S; Lopez-Aguirre C; Wijaya L, 2016, 'Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats', Alcheringa, 40, pp. 509 - 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1196434

De Pietri VL; Scofield RP; Hand SJ; Tennyson AJD; Worthy TH, 2016, 'Sheathbill-like birds (Charadriiformes: Chionoidea) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Australasia', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 46, pp. 181 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2016.1194297

Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Beck RMD; Arena DA; Wilson LAB; Kealy S; Hung T-T, 2016, 'Erratum: Corrigendum: A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 32054, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep32054

Stein M; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'A new crocodile displaying extreme constriction of the mandible, from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36, pp. e1179041, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1179041

Hand SJ; Sigé B; Archer M; Black KH, 2016, 'An evening bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the late Early Eocene of France, with comments on the antiquity of modern bats', Palaeovertebrata, 40, pp. e2, http://dx.doi.org/10.18563/pv.40.2.e2

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia', Palaeontologia Electronica, 19, pp. 1 - 26, http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1490-new-marsupial-lion

Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Beck RMD; Arena DA; Wilson LAB; Kealy S; Hung TT; Wijaya L, 2016, 'A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 26911, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26911

Butler K; Travouillon KJ; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1083029

Beck RMD; Archer M; Warburton NM; Hand SJ; Aplin KP, 2016, 'Going underground: postcranial morphology of the early Miocene marsupial mole Naraboryctes philcreaseri and the evolution of fossoriality in Notoryctemorphia', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 151 - 171

Beck RMD; Warburton NM; Archer M; Hand SJ; Aplin KP, 2016, 'Going underground: Postcranial morphology of the early miocene marsupial mole naraboryctes philcreaseri and the evolution of fossoriality in notoryctemorphians', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 151 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.14

Arena DA; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Black KH; Gillespie AK; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Lethaia, 49, pp. 43 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/let.12131

Travouillon KJ; Butler K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'New material of Gumardee pascuali Flannery et al., 1983 (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) and two new species from the Riversleigh World Heritage area, Queensland, Australia', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 189 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.16

Travouillon KJ; Butler K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'New material of Gumardee pascuali Flannery, Archer and Plane, 1983 and two new species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 189 - 207

Janis CM; Damuth J; Travouillon KJ; Figueirido B; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'Palaeoecology of Oligo-Miocene macropodoids determined from craniodental and calcaneal data', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 209 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.17

Janis CM; Travouillon KJ; Damuth J; Figueirido B; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'Paleoecology of Miocene kangaroos: inferences from craniodental and postcranial data', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 209 - 232

Archer M; Christmas O; Hand SJ; Black KH; Creaser P; Godthelp HJ; Cohen DR; Graham IT; Arena DA; Anderson C; Soares G; Machin N; Beck RMD; Wilson L; Myers TJ; Gillespie AK; Khoo B; Travouillon KJ; Wijaya L, 2016, 'Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 137 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.13

Nguyen JT; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'The late Cenozoic passerine avifauna from Rackham’s Roost Site, Riversleigh, Australia', Records of the Australian Museum, 68, pp. 201 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.68.2016.1668

Pian RM; Archer M; Hand SJ; Beck RMD; Cody A, 2016, 'The upper dentition and relationships of the enigmatic Australian Cretaceous mammal Kollikodon ritchiei', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 97 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.10

Chamberlain PM; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum gen.et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia), from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia', Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1103525

De Pietri V; Scofield RP; Tennyson AJD; Hand SJ; Worthy TH, 2015, 'Wading a lost southern connection: Miocene fossils from New Zealand reveal a new lineage of shorebirds (Charadriiformes) linking Gondwanan avifaunas', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 14, pp. 603 - 616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2015.1087064

Hand SJ; Lee DE; Worthy TH; Archer M; Worthy JP; Tennyson AJD; Salisbury SW; Scofield RP; Mildenhall DC; Kennedy EM; Lindqvist JK, 2015, 'Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand's endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0128871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128871

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2015, 'Sexually Dimorphic Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) From the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, First Cranial Ontogeny for Fossil Bandicoots and New Species Descriptions', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 22, pp. 141 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-014-9271-8

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa, 39, pp. 274 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.994115

Worthy TH; Handley T; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'The extinct flightless mihirungs (Aves: Dromornithidae): cranial anatomy, a new species and assessment of Oligo-Miocene lineage diversity', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Abel R, 2015, 'New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia).', Palaeontologia Electronica, 18, pp. 8A

Hand SJ, 2015, 'Bats: Origins of Australia's winged nightworkers', Australian Age of Dinosaurs, 12, pp. 66 - 77

Hand SJ; Sige, B ; Archer M; Gunnell GF; Simmons NB, 2015, 'A new early Eocene (Ypresian) bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with comments on patterns of diversity in the earliest chiropterans', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 22, pp. 343 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9

Arena DA; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Black KH; Gillespie AK; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Lethaia, 49, pp. 43 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/let.12131

Stein M; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Dwarfism and feeding behaviours in Oligo–Miocene crocodiles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00134.2014

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo, from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 39, pp. 274 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.994115

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2014, 'New material referable to Wakaleo (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions', Alcheringa, 38, pp. 513 - 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.908268

Rozefelds AC; Dettmann ME; Clifford HT; Hocknull S; Newman N; Godthelp H; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2014, 'Traditional and computed tomographic (CT) techniques link modern and Cenozoic fruits of Pleiogynium (Anacardiaceae) from Australia', Alcheringa, 39, pp. 24 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.951916

Cooke BN; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Ganguroo robustiter sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Matzke-Karasz R, 2014, 'Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia', Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0394

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2014, 'New material referable to Wakaleo (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 38, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.908268

Matzke-Karasz R; Neil JV; Smith RJ; Symonova R; Morkovsky L; Archer M; Hand SJ; Cloetens P; Tafforeau P, 2014, 'Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0394

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2014, 'Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (Marsupialia, Peramelidae and Thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34, pp. 375 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.799071

Nguyen JMT; Boles WE; Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2014, 'New specimens of the logrunner Orthonyx kaldowinyeri (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia', Alcheringa, 38, pp. 245 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.861732

Hand SJ, 2014, '‘Platyzilla’– a giant toothed-platypus from Australia', Australian Age of Dinosaurs, 11, pp. 4 - 5

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

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