By Emeritus Professor Suzanne Joan Hand

Journal articles

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

Black KH; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, '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

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, 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 WCH; Wilson LAB; Archer M; Hand SJ; Rogers TL; Wroe S, 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

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

Nguyen JMT; Worthy TH; Boles WE; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'A new cracticid (Passeriformes: Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia', Emu - Austral Ornithology, 113, pp. 374 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mu13017

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; Scofield RP, 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

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

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

Black K, 2012, 'Revision in the marsupial diprotodontid genus Neohelos: systematics and biostratigraphy', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0001

Arena DA; Archer M; Godthelp H; 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

Archer M; Beck R; Gott M; Hand S; Godthelp H; Black K, 2011, 'Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, pp. 1498 - 1506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1943

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 KJ; Escarguel G; 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

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2010.483567

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Nguyen JMT; 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; 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 P; Delclòs X; Godthelp H; Hand S; Jones A; Nel A; Néraudeau D; Ortega-Blanco J; Pérez-de la Fuente R; Perrichot V; Saupe E; 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

Hand SJ; Weisbecker V; Beck RMD; Archer M; Godthelp H; Tennyson AJD; Worthy TH, 2009, 'Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9, pp. 169 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-169

Sigé B; Archer M; Crochet J-Y; Godthelp H; Hand S; Beck R, 2009, 'Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials: New data from Australia', Geobios, 42, pp. 813 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2009.08.001

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 KJ; 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.025

Beck RMD; Godthelp H; Weisbecker V; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Australia's Oldest Marsupial Fossils and their Biogeographical Implications', PLoS ONE, 3, pp. e1858 - e1858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001858

Beck RMD; Archer M; Godthelp H; 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

Travouillon K; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand S, 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, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000249535400602&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand S; Godthelp H, 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

Roberts KK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 2007, 'New genus and species of extinct Miocene ringtail possums (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae)', American Museum Novitates, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3560[1:ngasoe]2.0.co;2

Louys J; Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 2007, 'Descriptions of koala fossils from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland and implications forLitokoala(Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae)', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 31, pp. 99 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510701305082

Travouillon KJ; 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912960701388576

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

Worthy TH; 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, 103, pp. 19419 - 19423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605684103

Archer M; Arena DA; Bassarova M; Beck RMD; Black K; Boles WE; Brewer P; Cooke BN; Crosby K; Gillespie A; Godthelp H; Hand SJ; Kear BP; Louys J; Morrell A; Muirhead J; Roberts KK; Scanlon JD; Travouillon KJ; Wroe S, 2006, 'Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the riversleigh world heritage area, northwestern queensland', Alcheringa, 30, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510609506851

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

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00444.x

Hand S; Archer M; Godthelp H, 2005, 'Australian Oligo-Miocene Mystacinids (Microchiroptera): upper dentition, new taxa and divergence of New Zealand species', Geobios, 38, pp. 339 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2003.11.005

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

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