By Emeritus Professor Suzanne Joan Hand

Journal articles

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

Worthy TH; Tennyson AJD; Scofield RP; Hand SJ, 2013, 'Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 43, pp. 211 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2013.825300

Pian R; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2013, 'A new, giant platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1255 - 1259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.782876

Hand SJ; Worthy TH; Archer M; Worthy JP; Tennyson AJD; Paul Scofield R, 2013, 'Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1442 - 1448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.775950

Black KH; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2013, 'Bearing up well? Understanding the past, present and future of Australia’s koalas', Gondwana Research, 25, pp. 1186 - 1201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.12.008

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'Phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Oligo-Miocene ratite Casuariidae', Integrative Zoology, pp. no - no, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12050

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2013, 'Revision in the marsupial diprotodontid genus Neohelos: systematics and biostratigraphy', ACTA Palaeontologica Polonica, 58, pp. 679 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0001

Travouillon K; Beck RM; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'The oldest fossil record of bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the late Oligocene of Australia', Palaeontologia Electronica, 16, pp. 1 - 52, http://zoobank.org/References/A47937B6-444F-4BF1-B66A-0ECDE2E6BC27

Hand SJ; Grant-Mackie J, 2012, 'Late Holocene bats from Me Aure Cave, New Caledonia: evidence of human consumption and a new species record from the recent past', Holocene, 22, pp. 79 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683611409783

Archer M; Beck RMD; Gott MH; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Black KH, 2011, 'Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, pp. 1498 - 1506

Arena DA; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Hocknull S, 2011, 'Hammer-toothed 'marsupial skinks' from the Australian Cenozoic', Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 278, pp. 3529 - 3533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0486

Worthy TH; Tennyson AJD; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Scofield R, 2011, 'Terrestrial Turtle Fossils from New Zealand Refloat Moa's Ark', Copeia, 2011, pp. 72 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/CH-10-113

Travouillon K; Escarguel ; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2011, 'The use of MSR (Minimum Sample Richness) for sample assemblage comparisons.', Paleobiology, 37, pp. 696 - 709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/09050.1

Hand SJ; Weisbecker V; Beck RM; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Tennyson AJD; Worthy TH, 2010, 'Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis about the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's mystacinids', , pp. 162 - 163

Worthy T; Hand SJ; Nguyen J; Tennyson AJD; Worthy JP; Scofield RP; Boles WE; Archer M, 2010, 'Biogeographical and Phylogenetic Implications of an Early Miocene Wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 479 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724631003618033

Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2010, 'First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial—from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 993 - 1011

Black K; Hand SJ, 2010, 'First crania and assessment of species boundaries in Nimbadon (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae) from the Middle Miocene of Australia', American Museum Novitates, 3678, pp. 1 - 60

Nguyen JMT; Boles WE; Hand SJ, 2010, 'New material of Barawertornis tedfordi, a dromornithid bird from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, and its phylogenetic implications', Records of the Australian Museum, 62, pp. 45 - 60

Soriano C; Archer M; Azar D; Creaser PH; Delclos X; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Jones A; Nel A; Neraudeau D; Ortega-blanco J; Perez-de la Fuente R; Perrichot V; Saupe EE; Kraemer MS; Tafforeau P, 2010, 'Synchrotron X-ray imaging of inclusions in amber', Comptes Rendus Palevol, 9, pp. 361 - 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.014

Worthy T; Hand SJ; Worthy J; Tennyson A; Scofield R, 2009, 'A large fruit pigeon (Columbidae) from the Early Miocene of New Zealand', The Auk, 126, pp. 649 - 656

Sige B; Archer M; Crochet J-Y; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Beck RMD, 2009, 'Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials', Geobios, 42, pp. 813 - 823

Roberts KK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2009, 'NEW AUSTRALIAN OLIGOCENE TO MIOCENE RINGTAIL POSSUMS (PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE) AND REVISION OF THE GENUS MARLU', Palaeontology, 52, pp. 441 - 456

Travouillon K; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2009, 'Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh`s Oligo-Miocene sites: Implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia', Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 276, pp. 24 - 37

Beck RM; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Mackness BS; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2008, 'A bizarre new family of marsupialia (incertae sedis) from the early Pliocene of northeastern Australia: Implications for the phylogeny of bunodont marsupials', Journal of Paleontology, 82, pp. 749 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/06-124.1

Worthy T; Tennyson A; Hand SJ; Scofield R, 2008, 'A new species of the diving duck Manuherikia and evidence for geese (Aves : Anatidae : Anserinae) in the St Bathans Fauna (Early Miocene), New Zealand', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 38, pp. 97 - 114

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Additional specimens of the oldest wombat Rhizophascolonus crowcrofti (vombatidae; Marsupialia) from the Wipajiri Formation, South Australia: An intermediate morphology?', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28, pp. 1144 - 1148

Beck RM; Godthelp HJ; Weisbecker V; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Australia`s oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications', PLoS One, 3

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'A new species of the wombat Warendja from late Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, North-West Queensland, Australia', Palaeontology, 50, pp. 811 - 828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00678.x

Louys JC; Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'Descriptions of koala fossils from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland and implications for Litokoala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae)', Alcheringa, 31, pp. 99 - 110

Travouillon K; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2007, 'Explaining the gaps in body mass distributions (cenograms): Statistical visualization of the ecological impact of introduced species', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, pp. 159A - 159A

Travouillon K; Archer M; Legendre S; Hand SJ, 2007, 'Finding the Minimum Sample richness (MSR) for multivariate analyses : implications for palaeoecology', Historical Biology, 19, pp. 315 - 320

Roberts KK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'New genus and species of extinct Miocene Ringtail Possums (Marsupialia:Pseudocheiridae)', American Museum Novitates, 3560, pp. 1 - 15

Beck RM; Godthelp HJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2007, 'Petrosals and tarsals of the early Eocene Australian metatherian Djarthia murgonensis: The oldest crown-group marsupial from Australasia and its implications for the evolution and biogeography of Australidelphia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, pp. 45A - 45A

Sige B; Maitre E; Hand SJ, 2007, 'The primitive condition of lower molars among bats', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 Supplement, pp. 146A - 146A

Archer M; Arena DA; Bassarova MP; Beck RM; Black K; boles W; Brewer P; Cooke BE; Crosby KM; Gillespie A; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Kear B; Louys JC; Morrell A; Muirhead J; Roberts KK; Scanlon J; Travouillon K; Wroe S, 2006, 'Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', 10th Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics

Archer M; Arena D; Bassarova M; Beck R; Black K; Boles W; Brewer P; Cooke B; Crosby K; Gillespie A; Godthelp H; Hand S; Kear B; Louys J; Morrell A; Muirhead J; Roberts K; Scanlon J; Travouillon K; Wroe S, 2006, 'Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 31, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619570

Worthy T; Tennyson AJD; Archer M; Musser AM; Hand SJ; Jones C; Douglas BJ; McNamara JA; Beck RMD, 2006, 'Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, pp. 19419 - 19423

Travouillon K; Archer M; Hand S; Godthelp H, 2006, 'Multivariate analyses of Cenozoic mammalian faunas from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 31, pp. 323 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619590

Hand SJ; Archer M, 2005, 'A new hipposiderid genus (Microchiroptera) from an early Miocene bat community in Australia', Palaeontology, 48, pp. 371 - 383

Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2005, 'Australian Oligo-Miocene Mystacinids (Microchiroptera): upper dentition, new taxa and divergence of New Zealand species', Geobios, 38, pp. 339 - 352, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X0V-4FVH4J0-1/2/6dc12b26a0d2786c304d35def0af8a39

Hand SJ; Kirsch JA, 2003, 'Archerops, a new annectent hipposiderid genus (Mammalia: Microchiroptera) from the Australian Miocene', Journal of Paleontology, 77, pp. 1139 - 1151

Menu H; Hand S; Sigé B, 2002, 'Oldest Australian vespertilionid (microchiroptera) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, Queensland', Alcheringa, 26, pp. 319 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510208619260

Menu H; Hand SJ; Sige B, 2002, 'Oldest Australian vespertilionid (Microchiroptera) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, Queensland', Alcheringa, 26, pp. 319 - 331

Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2001, 'New Miocene Icarops material (Microchiroptera:Mystacinidae) from Australia, with a revised diagnosis of the genus', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 139 - 146

Bassarova MP; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2001, 'New Oligo-Miocene pseudocheirids (Marsupialia) of the genus Paljara from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 61 - 75

McGowran B; Archer M; Bock P; Darragh TA; Godthelp HJ; Hageman S; Hand SJ; Hill R; Li Q; Maxwell PA; McNamara KJ; Macphail M; Mildenhall D; Partridge AD; Richardson J; Shafik S; Truswell EM; Warne M, 2000, 'Australasian palaeobiogeography: the Palaeogene and Neogene record', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 23, pp. 405 - 470

Pledge N; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 1999, 'Additions to the knowledge about ektopodontids (Marsupialia: Ektopodontidae): including a new species Ektopodon litolophus', Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement, pp. 255 - 264

Hand SJ, 1999, 'Australian fossil bat diversity and evolution', Australian Mammalogy, pp. 29 - 32

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