Select Publications
Journal articles
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
,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
,2019, 'The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation', Conservation Biology, 33, pp. 784 - 787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13329
,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
,2019, 'The platypus: Evolutionary history, biology, and an uncertain future', Journal of Mammalogy, 100, pp. 308 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz058
,2019, 'Vegetation and Climate Change in Southwestern Australia During the Last Glacial Maximum', Geophysical Research Letters, 46, pp. 1709 - 1720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080832
,2019, 'A new scincid lizard from the Miocene of northern Australia, and the evolutionary history of social skinks (Scincidae: Egerniinae)', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1577873
,2019, 'Dietary analysis of an uncharacteristic population of the Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) in the Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia', PeerJ, 2019, pp. e6307, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6307
,2018, 'Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae).', Palaeontologia Electronica, 21.1.8A, pp. 1 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/747
,2018, 'Phylogenetic diversity, differential endemism and the evolutionary history of New World bats', Ecography, 41, pp. 1955 - 1966, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03260
,2018, 'Flightless rails (Aves: Rallidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, Otago, New Zealand', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17, pp. 423 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1432710
,2018, 'A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand', Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w
,2018, 'A new species of miocene wombat (Marsupialia, vombatiformes) from riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the vombatidae', Palaeontologia Electronica, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/870
,2018, 'Quail-thrush birds from the Miocene of northern Australia', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63, pp. 493 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/APP.00485.2018
,2018, 'The critical value of long term field studies and datasets - Plenary 4', Australian Zoologist, 39, pp. 801 - 808, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.050
,2018, 'Thirty two years of continuous assessment reveal first year university biology students in Australia are rapidly abandoning beliefs in theistic involvement in human origins', Evolution: Education and Outreach, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12052-018-0083-9
,2018, 'Miminipossum notioplanetes, a Miocene forest-dwelling phalangeridan (Marsupialia; Diprotodontia) from northern and central Australia', Palaeontologia Electronica, 21.1.2A, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/757
,2017, 'A new Oligo–Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1391885
,2017, 'Species abundance, richness and body size evolution of kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) throughout the Oligo-Miocene of Australia', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 487, pp. 25 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.016
,2017, 'A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894
,2017, 'A new Miocene carnivorous marsupial, Barinya kutjamarpensis (Dasyuromorphia), from central Australia', Alcheringa, 41, pp. 46 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1180029
,2017, 'Dangerous Ideas in zoology: Plenary session 1', Australian Zoologist, 38, pp. 308 - 317, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.036
,2017, 'Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?', Palaeontology, 60, pp. 91 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12272
,2017, 'The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques', PeerJ, 2017, pp. e3511, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3511
,2017, 'Variation in the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Australian Oligo-Miocene mekosuchine crocodiles with implications for locomotion and habitus', PeerJ, 2017, pp. e3501, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3501
,2017, 'Geochemical exploration for vertebrate fossils using field portable XRF', Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 181, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2017.06.012
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