By Professor Michael Archer

Books

Archer M; Beale B, 2004, Going Native, Virago Press

Archer M; Brammall J; Field J; Hand SJ; Hook C, 2002, Australia's evolution: 100 million years of change, Australian Museum, Sydney

Long J; Archer M; Flannery TF; Hand SJ, 2002, Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington

Archer M; Godthelp H; Hand SJ, 2000, Australia's Lost World Riversleigh, World Heritage Site, Raupo

Murphy PA; Archer M; Burnley IH; Harding HR; Dunn K; Dodsen J; Head L, 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

Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H, 1986, Uncovering Australia's dreamtime, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW

Archer M, 1982, Mammals in Australia

Book Chapters

Cook A; Jell J; Archer M; Black KH; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Withnall IW; Vasconcelos PM, 2013, 'Paleogene and Neogene', in Jell P (ed.), Geology of Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD., pp. 577 - 652

Mooney SD, 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

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 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

Hand SJ; Archer M; Bickel D; Creaser P; Dettmann M; Godthelp HJ; Jones A; Norris B; Wicks D, 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

Archer M; Beale B, 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

Cooke BN, 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

Wroe S; Archer M, 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

Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Archer M; Kirsch JA, 2006, 'The Evolution and classification of marsupials', in Armati PJ; Dickman CR; Hume ID (ed.), Marsupials, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 21

Crosby KM; Bassarova MP; Archer M; Carbery K, 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

Archer M, 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

Musser AM; Archer M, 2001, 'Monotremata', in , Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npg.els.0001553

Archer M, 1997, 'How animals evolved', in Encyclopaedia of Australian wildlife, ReaderÕs Digest, Sydney, pp. 20 - 31

Archer M; Jenkins F; Hand SJ; Murray P; Godthelp H, 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

Wilson LAB; López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Hand SJ; Flores D; Abdala F; Giannini NP, 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

Hand SJ; Archer M; Gillespie A; Myers T, 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

Farman RM; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Chinsamy A; Black KH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 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

White AW; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H; Gillespie AK, 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

Fabian PR; Archer M; Hand SJ; Beck RMD, 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

DeSantis L; Archer M; Black K; Hand S; Korasidis V, 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

WORTHY TH; Scofield RP; HAND SJ; DE PIETRI VL; Archer M, 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

Worthy TH; Scofield RP; Salisbury SW; Hand SJ; De Pietri VL; Archer M, 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

Worthy TH; Scofield RP; Salisbury SW; Hand SJ; De Pietri VL; Blokland JC; Archer M, 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

Churchill TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Myers T; Gillespie A; Beck RMD, 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

Travouillon KJ; Butler K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M; Scofield RP; De Pietri VL, 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

Price GJ; Fitzsimmons KE; Nguyen AD; Zhao JX; Feng YX; Sobbe IH; Godthelp H; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Butler K; Travouillon KJ; Evans AR; Murphy L; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Weisbecker V, 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

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

King TR; Myers TJ; Armstrong KN; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Jackson SM; Fleming PJS; Eldridge MDB; Archer M; Ingleby S; Johnson RN; Helgen KM, 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

Beck RMD; Louys J; Brewer P; Archer M; Black KH; Tedford RH, 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

da Costa J; Cohen DR; Magalhães MCF; Hibbert DB; Archer M; Myers TJ; Hand SJ, 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

Stein M; Hand S; Archer M; Wroe S; Wilson L, 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

Sansalone G; Castiglione S; Raia P; Archer M; Dickson B; Hand S; Piras P; Profico A; Wroe S, 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

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

Archer M; Bates H; Hand SJ; Evans T; Broome L; McAllan B; Geiser F; Jackson S; Myers T; Gillespie A; Palmer C; Hawke T; Horn AM, 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

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M; Paul Scofield R; De Pietri VL, 2019, 'Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand', Biology Letters, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0467

Oommen MA; Cooney R; Ramesh M; Archer M; Brockington D; Buscher B; Fletcher R; Natusch DJD; Vanak AT; Webb G; Shanker K, 2019, 'The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation', Conservation Biology, 33, pp. 784 - 787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13329

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Laffan SW; Archer M, 2019, 'Zoogeographical regions and geospatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism of New World bats', Ecography, 42, pp. 1188 - 1199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04194

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