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Conference Presentations

DeSantis L; Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2017, 'Was the tree-climbing diprotodontid Nimbadon lavarckorum in search of fruit?', presented at 16th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Queenstown, New Zealand, 01 October 2017 - 07 October 2017

Archer M; Hand SJ; Louys J; Stewart M; Cooper A; Anderson W; Llamas B, 2017, 'A most mysterious improbable pachyderm found down under', presented at 16th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Queenstown, New Zealand, 01 October 2017 - 07 October 2017

Traub D; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 2017, 'Review of the Early Cretaceous Hazel Creek assemblage , the oldest mammal-bearing fauna in northern Australia', presented at 16th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Queenstown, New Zealand, 01 October 2017 - 07 October 2017

Lopez-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Archer M; Laffan SW, 2016, 'Phylogenetic diversity, differential endemism and the evolutionary history of New World bats', presented at 17th International Bat Research Conference, Durban, South Africa, 01 August 2016 - 06 August 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03260

Hand SJ; Archer M; Sige B; Black KH, 2016, 'A diverse Early Eocene bat fauna from Prémontré, France and the rise of modern bats.', presented at 17th International Bat Research Conference, Durban, South Africa, 01 August 2016 - 06 August 2016

Wilson LAB; Hand SJ; Lopez-Aguirre C; Archer M; Black KH; Beck RMD; Armstrong KN; Wroe S, 2016, 'Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats', presented at 17th International Bat Research Conference, 01 August 2016 - 06 August 2016

Archer M; Strong J; Hand SJ, 2016, 'The role of bat guano in the extraordinary preservation of fossils in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', presented at 17th International Bat Research Conference, Durban, South Africa, 01 August 2016 - 06 August 2016

Stein M; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'A new mekosuchine crocodile displaying extreme longirostry from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia', presented at 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 02 September 2015 - 05 September 2015

White AW; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 2015, 'Midget Submarines from Riversleigh: Dwarf Chelid Turtles', presented at 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs Convention Centre, Alice Springs NT, 01 September 2015 - 05 September 2015

Damuth J; Janis C; Travouillon KJ; Figueirido B; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Ecometrics Down Under: correlation of morphology with paleohabitat in kangaroos', presented at Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin, 04 November 2014 - 08 November 2014

Stein M; Yates AM; Scanlon JD; Archer M; Willis PMA; Salisbury S; Hand SJ, 2013, 'New materials of Oligo-Miocene Mekosuchus from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area indicate unusual development and palaeoecology', presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Archer M; Woodhead J; Dickson B; Hand SJ; Hellstrom J; Siversson M; Akerman K; Hatcher L; Jacobsen G, 2013, 'The first Australian vertebrate palaeontologists were Aborigines, not Caucasians', presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Hand SJ; Archer M; Beck RMD; Godthelp H; Sige B, 2013, 'What Australia’s oldest bat says about early bat evolution', presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Archer M; Hand SJ; Sige B, 2013, 'Carving up the Night Skies: Differences in the Shape and Use of Teeth in Early Bats Reflect Resource Partitioning', presented at 16 International Bat Research Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, 09 August 2013 - 17 August 2013

Hand SJ; Archer M; Beck RMD; Godthelp H; Sige B, 2013, 'What Australia's Oldest Bat Says About Early Bat Evolution', presented at 16 International Bat Research Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, 09 August 2013 - 16 August 2014

Janis C; Damuth J; Travouillon K; Figueirido B; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'Paleocology of Miocene kangaroos: inferences from craniodental and postcranial data', presented at 10th International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona, Spain, 08 July 2013 - 12 July 2013

Damuth J; Janis CM; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'MOLAR WEAR GRADIENT ANALYSIS IN EXTANT AND FOSSIL KANGAROOS (MARSUPIALIA, MACROPODOIDEA)', presented at 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology, N Carolina Museum Nat Sci, Raleigh, NC, 17 October 2012 - 20 October 2012, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000327878700135&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Abstracts

Hand S; Archer M; Armstrong K; Guarino-Vignon P; Hung T-T; Lopez-Aguirre C; Wilson L, 2019, 'Peculiar Cranial Morphology in Nasal-Emitting Bats (Chiroptera: Rhinonycteridae) from Miocene Forests in Northern Australia', in Journal of Morphology, Wiley, Vol. 280, pp. S38 - S38, presented at International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology

Hari-Rajan M; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wolfe J; Wilson LAB; Hung T; Bongers A, 2019, 'An Extraordinary Enigmatic Structure in the Middle Ear of Acrobatid Marsupials', in JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 280, pp. S132 - S132

Janis C; Damuth J; Travouillon K; Hand S; Archer M, 2018, 'Global mammalian response to mid-Miocene peak in atmospheric carbon dioxide', in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Taylor & Francis, presented at Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Conference

Black KH; Travouillon K; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wilson LAB; Bevitt J, 2016, 'Functional and morphometric analysis of a middle Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) skeleton from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', in PeerJ Preprints, PeerJ, UNSW, Sydney, presented at Riversleigh Symposium 2016, UNSW, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3393v1

Hand SJ; Lopez Aguirre C; Archer M; Armstrong K; Black KH; Wroe S; Wilson LAB, 2015, 'Ancestral reconstruction of skull form in Old World leaf-nosed bats (Hipposideridae and Rhinonycteridae) using geometric morphometrics', in Journal of Veretbrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX, USA, pp. 138 - 138, presented at Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, USA, 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015

Working Papers

López-Aguirre C; Wilson LAB; Koyabu D; Tu VT; Hand SJ, Decoupled morphological and biomechanical evolution and diversification of the wing in bats, Center for Open Science, http://dx.doi.org10.32942/osf.io/k3y5f

Preprints

López-Aguirre C; Ballen G; Hand S; Silcox M, 2025, Multifaceted evolution of dental morphology during the diversification of the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.10.658888

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Simmons NB; Silcox MT; Lopez-Aguirre C, 2021, Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.21.453269

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wilson LAB, 2015, Functional and geometric morphometric analysis of a middle Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) skeleton from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3393

López-Aguirre C; Czaplewski NJ; Link A; Takai M; Hand SJ, Dietary and body mass reconstruction of the Miocene neotropical bat Notonycteris magdalenensis (Phyllostomidae) from La Venta, Colombia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.09.418491

Weisbecker V; Rowe T; Wroe S; Macrini TE; Garland KLS; Travouillon KJ; Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Berlin J; Beck RMD; Ladevèze S; Sharp AC; Mardon K; Sherratt E, 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


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