Select Publications
Books
2004, Going Native, Virago Press
,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
,2000, Australia's Lost World Riversleigh, World Heritage Site, Raupo
,1998, From plesiosaurs to people: 100 million years of Australian environmental history, Environment Australia (Commonwealth Government), Canberra
,, 1998, From plesiosaurs to people: 100 million years of Australian environmental history, Archer M; Opie AH; Dodson JR; Harding HR; Head L; Murphy PA, (eds.), Environment Australia (Commonwealth Government), Canberra
1986, Uncovering Australia's dreamtime, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW
,1982, Mammals in Australia
,Book Chapters
2013, 'Paleogene and Neogene', in Jell P (ed.), Geology of Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD., pp. 577 - 652
,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, 'The rise of Australian marsupials: a synopsis of biostratigraphic, phylogenetic, palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographic understanding', in Talent JA (ed.), Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations through Time, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht
,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
,2007, 'From rarity to abundance: a consequence of value', in Lunney D; Eby P; Hutchings P; Burgin S (ed.), Pest or Guest: The Zoology of Overabundance, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Australia, pp. 226 - 227
,2006, 'Kangaroos', in Merick JR; Archer M; Hickey GM; Less MSY (ed.), Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 647 - 672
,2006, 'Origins and early radiations of marsupials', in Merrick JR; Archer M; Hickey GM; Less MSY (ed.), Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 551 - 574
,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
,2006, 'The Evolution and classification of marsupials', in Armati PJ; Dickman CR; Hume ID (ed.), Marsupials, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 21
,2004, 'Fossil possums in Australasia: discovery, diversity and evolution', in Goldingay RL; Jackson SM (ed.), The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney, pp. 161 - 176
,2002, 'Confronting crises in conservation: a talk on the wild side', in Lunney D; Dickman C (ed.), A Zoological Revolution, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 12 - 52
,2001, 'Monotremata', in , Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npg.els.0001553
,1997, 'How animals evolved', in Encyclopaedia of Australian wildlife, ReaderÕs Digest, Sydney, pp. 20 - 31
,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
,Journal articles
2024, 'Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407584121
,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, '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
,2022, 'A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand', Zootaxa, 5168, pp. 39 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5168.1.3
,2022, 'Two new neoavian taxa with contrasting palaeobiogeographical implications from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand', Journal of Ornithology, 163, pp. 643 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-01981-6
,2022, 'A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand', Geobios, 70, pp. 87 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.08.002
,2022, 'A new diminutive durophagous Miocene dasyuromorphian (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2170804
,2022, 'Two new species of the genus Gumardee (Marsupialia, Macropodiformes) reveal the repeated evolution of bilophodonty in kangaroos', Alcheringa, 46, pp. 105 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.2012595
,2021, 'Erratum: Correction to 'Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand' (Biology letters (2019) 15 8 (20190467))', Biology letters, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0608
,2021, 'New ages of the world's largest-ever marsupial: Diprotodon optatum from Pleistocene Australia', Quaternary International, 603, pp. 64 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.013
,2021, '3D Morphometric Analysis Reveals Similar Ecomorphs for Early Kangaroos (Macropodidae) and Fanged Kangaroos (Balbaridae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 28, pp. 199 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09507-8
,2021, 'Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls', Evolution, 75, pp. 625 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14163
,2021, 'Sheath-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from the early Pleistocene Rackham's Roost Site, Riversleigh World Heritage Area, and the distribution of northern Australian emballonurid species', PeerJ, 9, pp. e10857, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10857
,2021, 'Taxonomy of the Dingo: It’s an ancient dog', Australian Zoologist, 41, pp. 347 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.049
,2020, 'A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes)', Scientific Reports, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66425-8
,2020, 'Siderophore-Assisted Dissolution of Iron(III) Hydroxide Oxides from Iron-Rich Fossil Matrices', ChemPlusChem, 85, pp. 1747 - 1753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000407
,2020, 'Quantitatively assessing mekosuchine crocodile locomotion by geometric morphometric and finite element analysis of the forelimb', PeerJ, 2020, pp. e9349, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9349
,2020, 'Decoupling Functional and Morphological Convergence, the Study Case of Fossorial Mammalia', Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00112
,2020, '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
,2019, 'The Burramys project: A conservationist's reach should exceed history's grasp, or what is the fossil record for?', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374, pp. 20190221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0221
,2019, 'Lekaneleo, a new genus of marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the Oligocene–Miocene of Australia, and the craniodental morphology of L. roskellyae, comb. nov.', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1703722
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