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Journal articles
2014, 'New material referable to Wakaleo (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions', Alcheringa, 38, pp. 513 - 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.908268
,2014, 'Traditional and computed tomographic (CT) techniques link modern and Cenozoic fruits of Pleiogynium (Anacardiaceae) from Australia', Alcheringa, 39, pp. 24 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.951916
,2014, 'Ganguroo robustiter sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
,2014, 'Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia', Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0394
,2014, 'New material referable to Wakaleo (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 38, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.908268
,2014, 'Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0394
,2014, 'Biogeographical implications of a new mouse-sized fossil bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) occupying a dasyurid-like ecological niche across Australia', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 12, pp. 265 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2013.776646
,2014, 'Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (Marsupialia, Peramelidae and Thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34, pp. 375 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.799071
,2014, 'New specimens of the logrunner Orthonyx kaldowinyeri (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia', Alcheringa, 38, pp. 245 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2014.861732
,2014, 'Developing a radiometrically-dated chronologic sequence for Neogene biotic change in Australia, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of Queensland', Gondwana Research, 29, pp. 153 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.004
,2014, 'Reconstructing a Miocene pitfall trap: recognition and interpretation of fossiliferous Cenozoic palaeokarst', Sedimentary Geology, 304, pp. 28 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.01.005
,2014, 'Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species', Palaeontologia Electronica, 17, pp. 1 - 34, http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2014/711-riversleigh-basal-macropodoids
,2014, 'Three new Miocene species of musky rat-kangaroos (Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodoidea): description, phylogenetics and palaeoecology', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34, pp. 383 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.812098
,2014, 'Virtual reconstruction and prey size preference in the mid Cenozoic thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia)', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e93088, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093088
,2013, 'A new cracticid (Passeriformes:Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia', Emu, 113, pp. 374 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MU13017
,2013, 'A new, giant platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1255 - 1259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.782876
,2013, 'Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1442 - 1448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.775950
,2013, 'The Osteology and Systematics of the Enigmatic Australian Oligo-Miocene Metatherian Yalkaparidon (Yalkaparidontidae; Yalkaparidontia; ?Australidelphia; Marsupialia)', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-013-9236-3
,2013, 'Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1310440110
,2013, 'Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene australia-new guinea)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, pp. 8777 - 8781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302698110
,2013, 'Bearing up well? Understanding the past, present and future of Australia’s koalas', Gondwana Research, 25, pp. 1186 - 1201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.12.008
,2013, 'Phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Oligo-Miocene ratite Casuariidae', Integrative Zoology, pp. no - no, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12050
,2013, 'Revision in the marsupial diprotodontid genus Neohelos: systematics and biostratigraphy', ACTA Palaeontologica Polonica, 58, pp. 679 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0001
,2013, 'The oldest fossil record of bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the late Oligocene of Australia', Palaeontologia Electronica, 16, pp. 1 - 52, http://zoobank.org/References/A47937B6-444F-4BF1-B66A-0ECDE2E6BC27
,2012, 'Early to Middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia: comment', Geology, 40, pp. e273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G32600C.1
,2012, 'Herds overhead: Nimbadon lavarackorum (Diprotodontidae), heavyweight marsupial herbivores in the Miocene forests of Australia', PLoS ONE, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048213
,2012, 'Humeral morphology of the early Eocene mekosuchine crocodile Kambara from the Tingamarra Local Fauna southeastern Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa
,2012, 'New Tertiary koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, Australia with a revision of phascolarctid phylogenetics, paleoecology and paleobiodiversity', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32, pp. 125 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.626825
,2012, 'Optimisation of an oviposition protocol employing human chorionic and pregnant mare serum gonadotrophins in the Barred Frog Myxophyes fasciolatus (Myobatrachidae)', Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
,2012, 'Ostracods (Crustacea) with soft part preservation from Miocene cave deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia', Journal of Systematic Paleontology
,2012, 'The Eltanin asteroid impact – possible South Pacific palaeotmegasunami footprint and potential implications for the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition', Journal of Quaternary Science, 27, pp. 660 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2571
,2012, 'The genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh’s Miocene deposits, north-western Queensland, Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 153 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/039.033.0114
,2012, 'The temporally and environmentally restricted genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the Oligo-Miocene of northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
,2011, 'A new petauroid possum (Marsupialia, Pseudocheridae) from the Pliocene Bluff Downs local fauna, northern Queensland', Alcheringa, 25, pp. 439 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510108619233
,2011, 'Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, pp. 1498 - 1506
,2011, 'Hammer-toothed 'marsupial skinks' from the Australian Cenozoic', Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 278, pp. 3529 - 3533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0486
,2011, 'Slaughter of the singing sentients: Measuring the morality of eating red meat', Wildlife and Climate Change: toward robust conservation strategies for Australian fauna, 35, pp. 979 - 982
,2011, 'The use of MSR (Minimum Sample Richness) for sample assemblage comparisons.', Paleobiology, 37, pp. 696 - 709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/09050.1
,2010, 'Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis about the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's mystacinids', , pp. 162 - 163
,2010, 'Biogeographical and Phylogenetic Implications of an Early Miocene Wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 479 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724631003618033
,2010, 'First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial—from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 993 - 1011
,2010, 'First record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand', Records of the Australian Museum, 62, pp. 77 - 88
,2010, 'Synchrotron X-ray imaging of inclusions in amber', Comptes Rendus Palevol, 9, pp. 361 - 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.014
,2009, 'Cranial anatomy of oligo-miocene koalas (Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae): Stages in the evolution of an extreme leaf-eating specialization', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29, pp. 981 - 992, http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/039.029.0412
,2009, 'Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials', Geobios, 42, pp. 813 - 823
,2009, 'Early Miocene acanthisittid wren from St Bathans Fauna, Otago, NZ', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 479 - 498
,2009, 'Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna.', Biology Letters, 5, pp. 833 - 837
,2009, 'NEW AUSTRALIAN OLIGOCENE TO MIOCENE RINGTAIL POSSUMS (PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE) AND REVISION OF THE GENUS MARLU', Palaeontology, 52, pp. 441 - 456
,2009, 'Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh`s Oligo-Miocene sites: Implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia', Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 276, pp. 24 - 37
,2009, 'The calcaneum-on the heels of marsupial locomotion', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 16, pp. 1 - 23
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