By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

Gurovich Y; Travouillon KJ; Beck RMD; Muirhead J; Archer M, 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

Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH, 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

Nguyen JMT; Boles WE; Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 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

O'Hare Doig RL; Bartlett CA; Maghzal GJ; Lam M; Archer M; Stocker R; Fitzgerald M, 2014, 'Reactive species and oxidative stress in optic nerve vulnerable to secondary degeneration', Experimental Neurology, 261, pp. 136 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.06.007

Woodhead J; Hand SJ; Archer M; Graham I; Sniderman K; Arena DA; Black KH; Godthelp H; Creaser P; Price E, 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

Arena DA; Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp H; Creaser P, 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

Travouillon KJ; Cooke BN; Archer M; Hand SJ , 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

Bates HL; Travouillon KJ; Cooke B; Beck RMD; Hand SJ; Archer M, 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

Attard MRG; Parr W; Wilson LAB; Archer M; Hand SJ; Rogers TL; Wroe S; Wijaya L, 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

Nguyen JMT; Worthy TH; Boles WE; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'A new cracticid (Passeriformes:Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia', Emu, 113, pp. 374 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MU13017

Pian R; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Hand SJ; Worthy TH; Archer M; Worthy JP; Tennyson AJD; Paul Scofield R, 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

Beck RMD; Travouillon KJ; Aplin KP; Godthelp H; Archer M, 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

Cummins N; Bartlett CA; Archer M; Bartlett E; Hemmi JM; Harvey AR; Dunlop SA; Fitzgerald M, 2013, 'Changes to mitochondrial ultrastructure in optic nerve vulnerable to secondary degeneration in vivo are limited by irradiation at 670 nm', BMC Neuroscience, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-98

Wroe S; Field JH; Archer M; Grayson DK; Price GJ; Louys J; Faith JT; Webb GE; Davidson I; Mooney SD, 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, pp. E3369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1310440110

Wroe S; Field JH; Archer M; Grayson DK; Price GJ; Louys J; Faith JT; Webb GE; Davidson I; Mooney SD, 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

Black KH; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'Phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Oligo-Miocene ratite Casuariidae', Integrative Zoology, pp. no - no, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12050

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

Travouillon K; Beck RM; Hand SJ; Archer M, 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

Travouillon K; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'Early to Middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia: comment', Geology, 40, pp. e273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G32600C.1

Black KH; Camens AB; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Stein MM; Salisbury DS; Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Humeral morphology of the early Eocene mekosuchine crocodile Kambara from the Tingamarra Local Fauna southeastern Queensland, Australia', Alcheringa

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Clulow J; Clulow S; Guo J; French AJ; Mahony MJ; Archer M, 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

Matzke-Karasz R; Neil JV; Smith RJ; Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Ostracods (Crustacea) with soft part preservation from Miocene cave deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia', Journal of Systematic Paleontology

Goff J; Chague-Goff C; Archer M; Dominey-Howes D; Turney C, 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

Travouillon DK; Gurovich DY; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 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

Travouillon DK; Gurovich DY; Archer M; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2012, 'The temporally and environmentally restricted genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the Oligo-Miocene of northern Australia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Mackness BS; Archer M, 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

Archer M; Beck RMD; Gott MH; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Black KH, 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

Arena DA; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Hocknull S, 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

Archer M, 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

Travouillon K; Escarguel ; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 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

Hand SJ; Weisbecker V; Beck RM; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Tennyson AJD; Worthy TH, 2010, 'Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis about the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's mystacinids', , pp. 162 - 163

Worthy T; Hand SJ; Nguyen J; Tennyson AJD; Worthy JP; Scofield RP; Boles WE; Archer M, 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

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

Worthy TH; Tennyson AJD; Archer M; Scofield RP, 2010, 'First record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand', Records of the Australian Museum, 62, pp. 77 - 88

Soriano C; Archer M; Azar D; Creaser PH; Delclos X; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Jones A; Nel A; Neraudeau D; Ortega-blanco J; Perez-de la Fuente R; Perrichot V; Saupe EE; Kraemer MS; Tafforeau P, 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

Louys J; Aplin K; Beck RMD; Archer M, 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

Sige B; Archer M; Crochet J-Y; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Beck RMD, 2009, 'Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials', Geobios, 42, pp. 813 - 823

Worthy TH; Hand SJ; Nguyen J; Worthy J; Tennyson AJD; Scofield R; Boles WE; Archer M, 2009, 'Early Miocene acanthisittid wren from St Bathans Fauna, Otago, NZ', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, pp. 479 - 498

Lee MS; Hutchinson MN; Worthy T; Archer M; Tennyson AJD; Worthy J; Scofield RP, 2009, 'Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna.', Biology Letters, 5, pp. 833 - 837

Roberts KK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2009, 'NEW AUSTRALIAN OLIGOCENE TO MIOCENE RINGTAIL POSSUMS (PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE) AND REVISION OF THE GENUS MARLU', Palaeontology, 52, pp. 441 - 456

Travouillon K; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2009, 'Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh`s Oligo-Miocene sites: Implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia', Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 276, pp. 24 - 37

Bassarova MP; Janis C; Archer M, 2009, 'The calcaneum-on the heels of marsupial locomotion', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 16, pp. 1 - 23

Beck RM; Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Mackness BS; Hand SJ; Muirhead J, 2008, 'A bizarre new family of marsupialia (incertae sedis) from the early Pliocene of northeastern Australia: Implications for the phylogeny of bunodont marsupials', Journal of Paleontology, 82, pp. 749 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/06-124.1

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Additional specimens of the oldest wombat Rhizophascolonus crowcrofti (vombatidae; Marsupialia) from the Wipajiri Formation, South Australia: An intermediate morphology?', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28, pp. 1144 - 1148

Beck RM; Godthelp HJ; Weisbecker V; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2008, 'Australia`s oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications', PLoS One, 3

Roberts KK; Bassarova MP; Archer M, 2008, 'Oligo-Miocene ringtail possums of the genus Paljara (Pseudocheiridae: Marsupialia) from Queensland, Australia', Geobios, 41, pp. 833 - 844

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