By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

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

Weisbecker V; Archer M, 2008, 'Parallel evolution of hand anatomy in kangaroos and vombatiform marsupials: Functional and evolutionary implications', Palaeontology, 51, pp. 321 - 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00750.x

Roberts KK; Archer M, 2007, 'A morphological approach to unravelling the relationships of ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia)', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, pp. 136A - 136A

Brewer P; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'A new species of the wombat Warendja from late Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, North-West Queensland, Australia', Palaeontology, 50, pp. 811 - 828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00678.x

Hand SJ; Beck RMD; Worthy T; Archer M; Sige B, 2007, 'Australian and New Zealand fossil bats: the origin, evolution, and extinction of bat lineages in Australasia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 Supplement, pp. 86A - 86A

Louys JC; Black K; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'Descriptions of koala fossils from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland and implications for Litokoala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae)', Alcheringa, 31, pp. 99 - 110

Travouillon K; Legendre S; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2007, 'Explaining the gaps in body mass distributions (cenograms): Statistical visualization of the ecological impact of introduced species', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, pp. 159A - 159A

Travouillon K; Archer M; Legendre S; Hand SJ, 2007, 'Finding the Minimum Sample richness (MSR) for multivariate analyses : implications for palaeoecology', Historical Biology, 19, pp. 315 - 320

Kear B; Cooke BE; Archer M; Flannery TF, 2007, 'Implications of a new species of the Oligo-Miocene Kangaroo (Marsupialia : Macropodoidea) Nambaroo, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia', Journal of Paleontology, 81, pp. 1147 - 1167

Roberts KK; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2007, 'New genus and species of extinct Miocene Ringtail Possums (Marsupialia:Pseudocheiridae)', American Museum Novitates, 3560, pp. 1 - 15

Beck RM; Godthelp HJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2007, 'Petrosals and tarsals of the early Eocene Australian metatherian Djarthia murgonensis: The oldest crown-group marsupial from Australasia and its implications for the evolution and biogeography of Australidelphia', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, pp. 45A - 45A

Archer M; Arena DA; Bassarova MP; Beck RM; Black K; boles W; Brewer P; Cooke BE; Crosby KM; Gillespie A; Godthelp HJ; Hand SJ; Kear B; Louys JC; Morrell A; Muirhead J; Roberts KK; Scanlon J; Travouillon K; Wroe S, 2006, 'Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', 10th Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics

Archer M; Arena D; Bassarova M; Beck R; Black K; Boles W; Brewer P; Cooke B; Crosby K; Gillespie A; Godthelp H; Hand S; Kear B; Louys J; Morrell A; Muirhead J; Roberts K; Scanlon J; Travouillon K; Wroe S, 2006, 'Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 31, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619570

Macrini T; Rowe T; Archer M, 2006, 'Description of a cranial endocast from a fossil platypus, Obdurodon dicksoni (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), and the relevance of endocranial characters to monotreme monophyly', Journal of Morphology, 267, pp. 1000 - 1015

Archer M, 2006, 'In defence of Australian chemistry', Chemistry World, 3, pp. 32 - 32

Worthy T; Tennyson AJD; Archer M; Musser AM; Hand SJ; Jones C; Douglas BJ; McNamara JA; Beck RMD, 2006, 'Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, pp. 19419 - 19423

Travouillon K; Archer M; Hand S; Godthelp H, 2006, 'Multivariate analyses of Cenozoic mammalian faunas from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 31, pp. 323 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115510608619590

Hand SJ; Archer M, 2005, 'A new hipposiderid genus (Microchiroptera) from an early Miocene bat community in Australia', Palaeontology, 48, pp. 371 - 383

Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2005, 'Australian Oligo-Miocene Mystacinids (Microchiroptera): upper dentition, new taxa and divergence of New Zealand species', Geobios, 38, pp. 339 - 352, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X0V-4FVH4J0-1/2/6dc12b26a0d2786c304d35def0af8a39

McKenzie KG; Engelretsen M; Archer M; Price ER, 2004, 'Ostracoda from the Miocene, Riversleigh World Heritage deposits, Queensland, including Progomphocythere n. gen., with discussion of palaeoenvironments and age', Bollettino della Societa Paleontoligca Italiano, 43, pp. 321 - 330

Turnbull WD; Lundelius EL; Archer M, 2003, 'Dasyurids, perameloids, phalangeroids, and vombatoids from the early Pliocene Hamilton fauna, Victoria, Australia', BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, pp. 513 - 540, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000186887100019&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Scanlon JD; Lee MSY; Archer M, 2003, 'Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: Early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation', Geobios, 36, pp. 573 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-6995(03)00056-1

Scanlon JD; Lee MS; Archer M, 2003, 'Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation', Geobios, 36, pp. 573 - 601

Patton JL; Costa LP; Jones M; Dickman CR; Archer M, 2003, 'Molecular phylogeography and species limits in rainforest didelphid marsupials of South America', Predators with pouches: the biology of carnivorous marsupials, pp. 63 - 81

Archer M, 2002, 'New Ways of valuing wildlife are essential', Ecopolitics, 1, pp. 16 - 18

Kear B; Archer M; Flannery TF, 2001, 'Bulungamayine(Marsupialia:Macropodidae) postcranial elements from the late Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 103 - 122

Hand SJ; Archer M; Godthelp HJ, 2001, 'New Miocene Icarops material (Microchiroptera:Mystacinidae) from Australia, with a revised diagnosis of the genus', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 139 - 146

Bassarova MP; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2001, 'New Oligo-Miocene pseudocheirids (Marsupialia) of the genus Paljara from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 61 - 75

Kear B; Archer M; Flannery TF, 2001, 'Postcranial morphology of Gangaroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the middle Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 123 - 138

Myers TJ; Crosby KM; Archer M; Tyler MI, 2001, 'The Encore Local Fauna, a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 147 - 154

Crosby KM; Nagy M; Archer M, 2001, 'Wyulda asherjoeli, a new phalangerid (Diprotodontia:Marsupialia) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland', Memoirs of Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, pp. 77 - 82

McGowran B; Archer M; Bock P; Darragh TA; Godthelp HJ; Hageman S; Hand SJ; Hill R; Li Q; Maxwell PA; McNamara KJ; Macphail M; Mildenhall D; Partridge AD; Richardson J; Shafik S; Truswell EM; Warne M, 2000, 'Australasian palaeobiogeography: the Palaeogene and Neogene record', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 23, pp. 405 - 470

Archer M, 2000, 'Brain of the demon duck of doom', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Archer M, 2000, 'Bugs and Bones in Ancient stones', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Crosby KM; Ashford AE; Markovina A; Allaway WG, 2000, 'Durudawirines, a new group of Phalangeroid marsupials from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Quuensland,', Journal of Paleontology, pp. 327 - 335

Archer M, 2000, 'Monstrous moggies or charming chditches', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Shand J; Archer MA; Collin SP, 1999, 'Ontogenetic changes in the retinal photoreceptor mosaic in a fish, the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri', Journal of Comparative Neurology, 412, pp. 203 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990920)412:2<203::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-3

Archer M, 1999, 'A Legacy of boats, bloats and floaters', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Godthelp HJ; Wroe S; Archer M, 1999, 'A new marsupial from the Early Eocene Tingamarra local Fauna of Murgeon, Southeastern Queensland: A prototypical Australian marsupial', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, pp. 289 - 313

Pledge N; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 1999, 'Additions to the knowledge about ektopodontids (Marsupialia: Ektopodontidae): including a new species Ektopodon litolophus', Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement, pp. 255 - 264

Archer M, 1999, 'Bugs and bones and ancient stones', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Crosby KM; Godthelp HJ; Archer M; Pledge N, 1999, 'Diversity and evolution of Phalangerid, Ektopodontid, Mitalinid and Pilkipildrid marsupials', Australian Mammalogy, 21, pp. 22 - 23

Archer M, 1999, 'Immunising against flim-flam virus', Nature Australia, pp. 70 - 71

Bassarova MP; Archer M, 1999, 'Living and extinct Pseudocheirids (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae): Phylogenetic relatioships and changes in diversity through time', Australian Mammalogy, 21, pp. 25 - 27

Tsuda M; Kamimura K; Nakato H; Archer M; Staatz W; Fox B; Humphrey M; Olson S; Futch T; Kaluza V, 1999, 'The cell-surface proteoglycan Dally regulates Wingless signalling in Drosophila', Nature, 400, pp. 276 - 280

Archer M; Arena DA; Bassarova MP; Black K; Brammall J; Cooke BN; Creaser P; Crosby KM; Gillespie A; Godthelp HJ; Gott MH; Hand SJ; Kear B; Krikman A; Mackness BS; Muirhead J; Musser A; Myers TJ; Pledge N; Wang Y; Wroe S, 1999, 'The evolutionary history and diversity of Australian mammals', Australian Mammalogy, pp. 1 - 7

Archer M; Godthelp HJ; Gott MH; Wang Y; Musser A, 1999, 'The evolutionary history of notoryctids, yingabalarids, yalkaparidontids and other enigmatic groups of Australian mammals', Australian Mammalogy, pp. 13 - 15

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