By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

Bino G; Kingsford RT; Archer M; Connolly JH; Day J; Dias K; Goldney D; Gongora J; Grant T; Griffiths J; Hawke T; Klamt M; Lunney D; Mijangos L; Munks S; Sherwin W; Serena M; Temple-Smith P; Thomas J; Williams G; Whittington C, 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

Sniderman JMK; Hellstrom J; Woodhead JD; Drysdale RN; Bajo P; Archer M; Hatcher L, 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

Thorn KM; Hutchinson MN; Archer M; Lee MSY, 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

Hawke T; Bates H; Hand S; Archer M; Broome L, 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

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

Lopez-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Laffan S; Archer M, 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

Mather E; Tennyson AJD; Scofield RP; DePietri VL; Hand SJ; Archer M; Handley WD; Worthy TH, 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

Hand SJ; Beck RMD; Archer M; Simmons NB; Gunnell GF; Scofield RP; Tennyson AJD; De Pietri VL; Salisbury SW; Worthy TH, 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

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand S; Price GJ, 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

Nguyen JMT; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Greenville A; Burns E; Archer M; Hand S; O’Donnell J; Stephens R; Prater L; Mott L; Flemons P; Willis P; Fleming P; Haythornthwaite A; Ross G, 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

Archer M; Poore AGB; Horn AM; Bates H; Bonser S; Hunt M; Russell J; Archer NP; Bye DJ; Kehoe EJ, 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

Archer M; Binfield P; Hand SJ; Black KH; Creaser P; Myers TJ; Gillespie AK; Arena D; Scanlon J; Pledge NS; Thurmer J, 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

Gillespie A; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

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

Travouillon KJ; Louys J; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 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

Binfield P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Myers TJ; Gillespie AK; Arena DA, 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

Archer M; Webb C; Close R; Predavec M; Bradshaw C; Brook B, 2017, 'Dangerous Ideas in zoology: Plenary session 1', Australian Zoologist, 38, pp. 308 - 317, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.036

López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Hand SJ; Laffan SW; Lopez-Aguirre C, 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

Myers TJ; Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Stein MD; Yates A; Hand SJ; Archer M, 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

Cohen DR; Cohen EJ; Graham I; Soares GG; Hand SJ; Archer , 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

Asahara M; Koizumi M; Macrini TE; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: feeding behaviour, electroreception, and loss of teeth', Science Advances, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601329

Wilson LAB; Hand SJ; López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Black KH; Beck RMD; Armstrong KN; Wroe S; Lopez-Aguirre C; Wijaya L, 2016, 'Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats', Alcheringa, 40, pp. 509 - 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1196434

Rich TH; Hopson JA; Gill PG; Gill PG; Rogers-Davidson S; Morton S; Cifelli RL; Pickering D; Kool L; Siu K; Burgmann FA; Senden T; Evans AR; Wagstaff BE; Seegets-Villiers D; Corfe IJ; Flannery TF; Walker K; Musser AM; Archer M; Pian R; Vickers-Rich P, 2016, 'The mandible and dentition of the Early Cretaceous monotreme Teinolophos trusleri', Alcheringa, 40, pp. 475 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1180034

Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Beck RMD; Arena DA; Wilson LAB; Kealy S; Hung T-T, 2016, 'Erratum: Corrigendum: A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 32054, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep32054

Stein M; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'A new crocodile displaying extreme constriction of the mandible, from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36, pp. e1179041, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1179041

Hand SJ; Sigé B; Archer M; Black KH, 2016, 'An evening bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the late Early Eocene of France, with comments on the antiquity of modern bats', Palaeovertebrata, 40, pp. e2, http://dx.doi.org/10.18563/pv.40.2.e2

Gillespie AK; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia', Palaeontologia Electronica, 19, pp. 1 - 26, http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1490-new-marsupial-lion

Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Beck RMD; Arena DA; Wilson LAB; Kealy S; Hung TT; Wijaya L, 2016, 'A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 26911, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26911

Butler K; Travouillon KJ; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1083029

White AW; Morris I; Madani G; Archer M, 2016, 'Are cane toads rhinella marina impacting ghost bats macroderma gigas in Northern Australia?', Australian Zoologist, 38, pp. 183 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/az.2016.028

Beck RMD; Warburton NM; Archer M; Hand SJ; Aplin KP, 2016, 'Going underground: Postcranial morphology of the early miocene marsupial mole naraboryctes philcreaseri and the evolution of fossoriality in notoryctemorphians', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 151 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.14

Arena DA; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Black KH; Gillespie AK; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Lethaia, 49, pp. 43 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/let.12131

Travouillon KJ; Butler K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2016, 'New material of Gumardee pascuali Flannery et al., 1983 (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) and two new species from the Riversleigh World Heritage area, Queensland, Australia', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 189 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.16

Janis CM; Damuth J; Travouillon KJ; Figueirido B; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'Palaeoecology of Oligo-Miocene macropodoids determined from craniodental and calcaneal data', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 209 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.17

Archer M; Christmas O; Hand SJ; Black KH; Creaser P; Godthelp HJ; Cohen DR; Graham IT; Arena DA; Anderson C; Soares G; Machin N; Beck RMD; Wilson L; Myers TJ; Gillespie AK; Khoo B; Travouillon KJ; Wijaya L, 2016, 'Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 137 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.13

Nguyen JT; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2016, 'The late Cenozoic passerine avifauna from Rackham’s Roost Site, Riversleigh, Australia', Records of the Australian Museum, 68, pp. 201 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.68.2016.1668

Pian RM; Archer M; Hand SJ; Beck RMD; Cody A, 2016, 'The upper dentition and relationships of the enigmatic Australian Cretaceous mammal Kollikodon ritchiei', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 97 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.10

Chamberlain PM; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum gen.et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia), from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia', Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1103525

Hand SJ; Lee DE; Worthy TH; Archer M; Worthy JP; Tennyson AJD; Salisbury SW; Scofield RP; Mildenhall DC; Kennedy EM; Lindqvist JK, 2015, 'Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand's endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0128871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128871

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2015, 'Sexually Dimorphic Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) From the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, First Cranial Ontogeny for Fossil Bandicoots and New Species Descriptions', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 22, pp. 141 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-014-9271-8

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa, 39, pp. 274 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.994115

Worthy TH; Handley T; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'The extinct flightless mihirungs (Aves: Dromornithidae): cranial anatomy, a new species and assessment of Oligo-Miocene lineage diversity', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Abel R, 2015, 'New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia).', Palaeontologia Electronica, 18, pp. 8A

Hand SJ; Sige, B ; Archer M; Gunnell GF; Simmons NB, 2015, 'A new early Eocene (Ypresian) bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with comments on patterns of diversity in the earliest chiropterans', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 22, pp. 343 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9

Arena DA; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Black KH; Gillespie AK; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Lethaia, 49, pp. 43 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/let.12131

Stein M; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Dwarfism and feeding behaviours in Oligo–Miocene crocodiles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00134.2014

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2014, 'Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo, from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 39, pp. 274 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.994115

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Den Boer W; Kear BP; Cooke BN; Archer M, 2014, 'A New Species of the Basal ‘‘Kangaroo’’ Balbaroo and a Re-Evaluation of Stem Macropodiform Interrelationships', PLoS One, 9, pp. e112705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112705

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