By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

Archer M; Flannery TF; Ritchie A; Molnar RE, 1985, 'First Mesozoic mammal from Australia - An early Cretaceous monotreme', Nature, 318, pp. 363 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/318363a0

Archer M; Flannery T, 1985, 'Revision of the extinct gigantic rat kangaroos (Potoroidae:Marsupialia), with description of a new Miocene genus and species and a new Pleistocene species of Propleopus ( Australia).', Journal of Paleontology, 59, pp. 1331 - 1349

Woodburne MO; Tedford RH; Archer M; Turnbull WD; Plane MD; Lundelius EL, 1985, 'Biochronology of the continental mammal record of Australia and New Guinea', Special Publication of the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, 5, pp. 347 - 363

Baverstock PR; Adams M; Archer M, 1984, 'Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in the sminthopsis murina complex (Dasyuridae)', Australian Journal of Zoology, 32, pp. 721 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO9840823

FLANNERY TF; ARCHER M; PLANE M, 1984, 'PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS AND A RECONSIDERATION OF HIGHER LEVEL SYSTEMATICS WITHIN THE POTOROIDAE (MARSUPIALIA)', JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 58, pp. 1087 - 1097, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1984TC66800010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Flannery TF; Archer M, 1984, 'The macropodoids (Marsupialia) of the early Pliocene Bow local fauna, central eastern New South Wales.', Australian Zoologist, 21, pp. 357 - 383

Archer M; Hand SJ, 1984, 'The Australian marsupial radiation', Vertebrate Zoogeography & Evolution in Australasia.(Animals in Space & Time). Hesperian Press: Carlisle, pp. 633 - 808

Baverstock PR; Adams M; Archer M; McKenzie NL; How R, 1983, 'An electroporetic and chromosomal study of the dasyurid marsupial genus ningaui archer', Australian Journal of Zoology, 31, pp. 381 - 392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO9830381

Flannery TF; Archer M, 1983, 'Revision of the genus troposodon bartholomai (Macropodidae: Marsupialia)', Alcheringa, 7, pp. 263 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518308619612

Flannery TF; Archer M; Plane M, 1982, 'Middle Miocene kangaroos ( Macropodoidea: Marsupiala) from three localities in northern Australia, with a description of two new subfamilies.', BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics, 7, pp. 287 - 302

Baverstock PR; Archer M; Adams M; Richardson BJ, 1982, 'Genetic relationships among 32 species of Australian dasyurid marsupials', Carnivorous marsupials, 2, pp. 641 - 650

Archer M, 1982, 'Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification', Carnivorous marsupials, 2, pp. 397 - 443

Archer M, 1981, 'A review of the origins and radiations of Australian mammals', Ecological biogeography of Australia, 3, pp. 1435 - 1488

Archer M, 1981, 'Systematic revision of the marsupial dasyurid genus Sminthopsis Thomas', Bulletin of the AMNH, 168

Archer M; Crawford IM; Merrilees D, 1980, 'Incisions, breakages and charring, some probably man-made, in fossil bones from mammoth cave, Western Australia', Alcheringa, 4, pp. 115 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518008619643

Rich THV; Archer M, 1979, 'Namilamadeta snideri, a new diprotodontan (Marsupialia, vombatoidea) from the medial miocene of south australia', Alcheringa, 3, pp. 197 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115517908527793

Archer M; Bartholomai A, 1978, 'Tertiary mammals of Australia: A synoptic review', Alcheringa, 2, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115517808619074

Archer M; Bartholomai A; Marshall LG, 1978, 'Propleopus chillagoensis, a new North Queensland species of extinct giant rat–kangaroo (Macropodidae: Potorinae)', Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, pp. 55 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1978.39.04

Archer MICHAEL, 1978, 'The nature of the molar-premolar boundary in marsupials and a reinterpretation of the homology of marsupial cheekteeth', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 18, pp. 157 - 164

Hecht MK; Archer M, 1977, 'Presence of xiphodont crocodilians in the tertiary and pleistocene of Australia', Alcheringa, 1, pp. 383 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115517708527772

GOULD RA; ARCHER M; BRONSTEIN N; MARTIN HA, 1977, 'PUNTUTJARPA ROCKSHELTER AND AUSTRALIAN DESERT CULTURE', ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 54, pp. 5 - 187, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1977EB66300001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

ARCHER M, 1976, 'DASYURID DENTITION AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS TO THAT OF DIDELPHIDS, THYLACINIDS, BORHYAENIDS (MARSUPICARNIVORA) AND PERAMELIDS (PERAMELINA-MARSUPIALIA)', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, pp. 1 - 34, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1976BP47700001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

ARCHER M, 1976, 'The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), interrelationships of carnivorous marsupials, and affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 59, pp. 217 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb01016.x

Archer M, 1976, 'Application for the suppression of the name Sminthopsis murina var. constricta Spencer, 1896 (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae). Z.N.(S.)2080', The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 33, pp. 127 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.27881

Archer M, 1976, 'Bluff Downs local fauna', The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland, 383, pp. 379 - 397

Covacevich J; Archer M, 1975, 'The distribution of the cane toad, Bufo marinus', Australia and its effects on indigenous vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17, pp. 305 - 310

Archer M, 1974, 'EXCAVATIONS IN THE ORCHESTRA SHELL CAVE, WANNEROO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Part III. Fossil Vertebrate Remains', Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 9, pp. 156 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.1974.tb00196.x

Archer M, 1974, 'Regurgitation or mercyism in the western native cat, Dasyurus geoffroii, and the red-tailed wambenger, Phascogale calura (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae).', Journal of mammalogy, 55, pp. 448 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1379014

Conference Papers

Archer M; Craig H; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Did young hypercarnivorous marsupial lions (Thylacoleo carnifex) mature into carnivory-challenged adults?', in Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX, USA, pp. 80 - 81, presented at Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Conference 2015, Dallas, TX, USA, 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wilson LAB, 2015, 'Functional and geometric morphometric analysis of a middle Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) skeleton from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX, USA, pp. 91 - 91, presented at Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 75th Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, USA, 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3393

Stein M; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2015, 'A new mekosuchine crocodile displaying extreme longirostry from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia', in 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Program and Abstracts, Alice Springs, presented at 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 02 September 2015 - 05 September 2015

Travouillon KJ; Price GJ; Cramb J; Louys J; Hocknull S; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2015, 'Building a biogeographic map of the fossil bandicoots and bilbies from Pliocene and Quaternary deposits of Australia', in 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Program & Abstracts, Alice Springs, presented at 15th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 02 September 2015 - 05 September 2015

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Den Boer W; Kear BP; Cooke BN; Archer M, 2015, 'Cranial and skeletal elements of a new species of enigmatic kangaroo (genus Balbaroo) and a re-evaluation of balbarid (Balbaridae: Macropodiformes) taxonomy', Alice Springs, presented at 15th Conference on Auatralasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Alice Springs, 01 September 2015 - 05 September 2015, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/unsworks_36965

Cohen DR; Cohen EJ; Archer M; Graham IT; Hand SJ, 2015, 'Geochemical exploration for vertebrate fossils using field portable XRF', Association of Applied Geochemists, Tucson, Arizona, presented at 27th Internat Applied Geochemical Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, 19 April 2015 - 23 April 2015

Travouillon KJ; Cooke BN; Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Kear BP; Den Boer W, 2013, 'Oligo–Miocene macropodoids and peramelemorphians: biochronology, palaeoecology and systematics', Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Arena DA, 2013, 'The diversity and biostratigraphy of Riversleigh’s diprotodontoids (Diprotodontidae, Palorchestidae): advances in understanding the biochronology of Australia’s mammal-bearing fossil deposits', Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, presented at 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 September 2013 - 04 October 2013

Janis C; Damuth J; Travouillon K; Figueirido B; Hand SJ; Archer M, 2013, 'Paleocology of Miocene kangaroos: inferences from craniodental and postcranial data', in Witner L (ed.), The Anatomical Record Program & Abstracts of the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Paleontology, Wiley, Barcelona, Spain,, pp. 267, presented at 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona, Spain,, 08 July 2013 - 12 July 2013

Damuth J; Janis CM; Travouillon KJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'MOLAR WEAR GRADIENT ANALYSIS IN EXTANT AND FOSSIL KANGAROOS (MARSUPIALIA, MACROPODOIDEA)', in JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, NC, N Carolina Museum Nat Sci, Raleigh, pp. 84 - 84, presented at 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology, NC, N Carolina Museum Nat Sci, Raleigh, 17 October 2012 - 20 October 2012, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000313496400135&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Black KH; Price GJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Bearing up well- the koala's 24-million-year-old family tree', in Proceedings of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012, Australian Geosciences Council, Brisbane, pp. 122 - 122, presented at 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 05 August 2012 - 10 August 2012

Black KH; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Niche diversity and evolution of Australia’s megaherbivores — the diprotodontoids (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae, Palorchestidae)', in Proceedings of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012, Australian Geosciences Council, Brisbane, pp. 297 - 297, presented at 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 05 August 2012 - 10 August 2012

Coonie R; Archer M; Baumber A; Ampt P; Wilson G; Smits J; Crocodylus P, 2012, 'THINKK again: getting the facts straight on kangaroo harvesting and conservation.', in Science Under Siege: Zoology Under Threat, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, NSW, pp. 150 - 160, presented at NSW Royal Zoological Society Annual Forum, - , http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/FS.2012.051

Archer M; Black KH; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2012, 'Darwin’s unfolding epiphany: 174 years of understanding Australian marsupial evolution', in Proceedings of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012, Australian Geosciences Council, pp. 121

Travouillon DK; Gurovich DY; Beck DR; Muirhead J; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2012, 'The evolution of bilbies and bandicoots', in Proceedings of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012, Australian Geosciences Council, pp. 4015

Parmeter MK; Graham IT; Black KH; Archer M; Woodhead J; Hand SJ, 2012, 'The geological development of fossil site AL90, Riversleigh world heritage area, far NW', in Proceedings of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012, Australian Geosciences Council, pp. 3596

Black K; Camens A; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ, 2011, 'Functional morphology of the postcranial skeleton reveals a new niche for Nimbadon lavarackorum (Marsupialia, Diprotodontidae)', in Trinajstic K; Bunce M; Warburton N; Hadley C; Baynes A; Siversson M (eds.), Geological Survey of Western Australia, United States, pp. 20 - 20, presented at 13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Perth, 27 April 2011 - 30 April 2011

Woodhead J; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Graham IT; Creaser P; Black KH; Arena DA; Price ER, 2011, 'Preliminary radiometric ages for Cenozoic deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil area, NW Queensland', in Trinajstic K; Bunce M; Warburton N; Hadley C; Baynes A; Siversson M (eds.), Proceedings - 25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2011, European Council for Modelling and Simulation, United States, pp. 87 - 87, presented at 13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Perth, 27 April 2011 - 30 April 2011

Graham IT; Archer M; Hand SJ; Godthelp HJ; Price ER; Arena DA; Creaser P; Black K; Zhao L, 2011, 'Riversleigh: documenting 25 million years of geological evolution', in Trinajstic K; Bunce M; Warburton N; Hadley C; Baynes A; Siversson M (eds.), Proceedings - 25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2011, European Council for Modelling and Simulation, United States, pp. 38 - 38, presented at 13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Perth, 27 April 2011 - 30 April 2011

Worthy TH; Worthy J; Archer M; Hand SJ; Scofield R; Hutchinson M; Tennyson AJD, 2011, 'A decade on, what the St Bathans Fauna reveals about the Early Miocene terrestrial biota of Zealandia', in Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 130A, Geoscience Society of New Zealand, Nelson, New Zealand, pp. 120 - 120, presented at Geosciences 2011 Conference, Nelson, New Zealand

Matzke-karasz R; Smith RJ; Neil JV; Godthelp HJ; Archer M; Hand SJ, 2011, 'Preliminary report on early Miocene freshwater ostracods (Crustacea) with soft part preservation from the riversleigh site, NW Queensland, Australia', in Joannea - Geologie und Palaontologie, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Broome L; Archer M; Bates HL; Geiser DF; McAllan DB; Heinze DD; Hand SJ; Evans DT; Jackson DS, 2010, 'A brief life history of, threats to and prehistory-based proposal for ensuring that Burramys parvus (Broom) will have a future', in Wildlife and Climate Change: towards robust conservation strategies for Australian fauna, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman, NSW, pp. 114 - 126, presented at Wildlife and Climate Change: towards robust conservation strategies for Australian fauna, Mosman, NSW, Australia, 23 October 2010, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/170447362?q=+9780980327250+&c=book&versionId=185825771

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