By Professor Michael Archer

Journal articles

Lester KS; Archer M, 1986, 'A description of the molar enamel of a middle Miocene monotreme (Obdurodon, Ornithorhynchidae)', Anatomy and Embryology, 174, pp. 145 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00824329

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

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

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

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

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

Novacek MJ; Archer M, 1983, 'Carnivorous Marsupials.', Systematic Zoology, 32, pp. 463 - 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2413177

Flannery T; Archer M, 1982, 'The taxonomy and distribution of Macropus (Fissuridon) pearsoni (Marsupialia: Macropodidae).', Australian Mammalogy, 5, pp. 261 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am82028

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

Sigé B; Hand SJ; Archer M, 1982, 'An Australian Miocene Brachipposideros (Mammalia, Chiroptera) related to Miocene representatives from France', Palaeovertebrata, 12, pp. 149 - 172

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

Rich TH; Archer M; Tedford RH, 1978, 'Raemeotherium yatkolai gen, et sp. nov., a primitive diprotodontid from the medial Miocene of South Australia', Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, pp. 85 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1978.39.06

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

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

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

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

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

Archer M, 1972, 'Domestic Cats and Dogs-A Danger to the Australian Fauna', The Western Australian Naturalist, 12, pp. 85 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/p.311517

Scanlon JD; Lee MSY; Archer M, '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

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