Professor Michael Archer

Professor Mike Archer - Former Director of the Australian Museum

The current Director of the Australian Museum is Frank Howarth

1995

Archer, M., 1995. Devils, dugites and 'dirt brains'.Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [12]: 68-69.
Archer, M., 1995. Pin pricks & verdant vistas. Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [12]: 80.
Archer, M., 1995. Mystery of the multiplying monotremes.Nature Aust.25 [1]: 68-69.
Archer, M., 1995. Borneo bats and sweaty insights. Nature Aust. 25 [2]: 68-69.
Archer, M., 1995. Miocene Madonna & child. Nature Aust.25 [3]: 70-71.
Archer, M., Flannery, T., Rich, T., Jones, B., Musser, A., Pascual, R., Goin, F., Carlini, A., Ortiz Jaureguizar, E., Candela, A., Prado, J., Puertas, P., Godthelp, H., Augee, M., Muirhead, J., Nock, C., 1995. A new Mesozoic monotreme from Australia and the relationships of Monotrematum sudamericanum. 5th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics Abstracts: 1.
*Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1995. Tertiary environmental and biotic change in Australia. Pp. 77-90 in Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins ed. E. Vrba, G.H. Denton, T.C. Partridge, L.H. Burckle. Yale University Press: New Haven.
Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Rich, T.H., Jones, R., 1995. A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia. Nature 377: 418-20.
Musser, A., Archer, M., 1995. The cranial morphology of a Miocene platypus Obdurodon dicksoni from Riversleigh, Queensland. Abstract, CAVEPS, Canberra, 1995.
Wroe, S., Archer, M., 1995. Extraordinary diphyodonty-related change in dental function for a tooth of the extinct marsupial Ekaltadeta ima (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae). Archives of Oral Biology 40: 597-603.

1996

Archer, M., 1996. Refugial vertebrates from the Miocene rainforests of Western Australia: where are they? Pp. 100-103 in Gondwanan heritage: past, present and future of the Western Australian biota ed. S.D. Hopper et al., Surrey Beatty & Sons: Chipping Norton.
Archer, M., 1996. Crocodile dinners and diners. Nature Aust.25 [4]: 70-71.
Archer, M., 1996. Possum patterns plucked from stone. Nature Aust.25 [5]: 60-61.
Archer, M., 1996. Evolution after death. Nature Aust. 25 [6]: 70-71.
Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1996. The Tingamarra Local Fauna, early Tertiary vertebrates from Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Supplement 16(3) Abstracts: 37A.
Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, M., 1996. Mystacina-like bats from the Australian Miocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3) Supplement, Abstracts: 39A-40A.
Lunney, D., Pressey, B., Archer, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H., Curtin, A., 1996. Integrating ecology and economics: a conflict of space and time. In Ecological Economics: A Conference Report. Background Pap. No 7 1995-96: 8-9.
Sigé, B., Archer, M., Godthelp, H, Hand, S.J., Crochet, J.-Y., 1996. Peruvian-Australian Paleogene mammal connection. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3) Supplement, Abstracts: 66A.

1997

Archer, M., 1997. Messing with mammalian meanderings. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 48: 6-7.
Archer, M., 1997. Preface [to 'Riversleigh issue']. Mem. Qd Mus. 44: 169.
Archer, M., 1997. Vertebrate palaeontology, School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Nomen Nudum 25: 35-44.
Archer, M., 1997. How animals evolved, Healey, J (ed), Encyclopedia of Australian wildlife, Sydney, Reader's Digest, 20-31.
Archer, M., 1997. The flesh-eating kangaroo. Highlife November 1997: 130.
Archer, M., 1997. Worries about withering wombats. Nature Australia 25(10): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1997. The lengthening limits of life. Nature Australia 25(9): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1997. Tickling the dull out of taxonomy. Nature Australia 25(7): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1997. Tiger, tiger out of sight. Nature Australia 25(8): 70-71.
Archer, M., Black, K, Nettle, K., 1997a. Giant ringtail possums (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae) and giant koalas (Phascolarctidae) from the late Cainozoic of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 3-15.
*Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1997b. Warnings from the fossil record and island biodiversity about long-term viability of mammal lineages in 'protected' areas. Landcare Changing Australia, National Conference 1: 26-30.
Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 1997c. Correlation of the Cainozoic sediments of the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Property, Queensland, Australia. BiochroM 97, Abstracts.
Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1997d. Unrolling the prehistoric scrolls of prophecy--roos and rocks rule. Landcare Australia Yearbook 1997, 12-15.
*Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Creaser, P., 1997e. Correlation of the Cainozoic sediments of the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil property, Queensland, Australia. Pp. 131-152 in Actes du Congrès BiochroM'97 ed by J.-P. Aguilar, S. Legendre, J. Michaux. École Pratique des Hautes Études Institut de Montpellier, France.
Black, K., Archer, M., 1997a. Silvabestius, a new genus and two new species of primitive zygomaturines (Marsupialia, Diprotodontidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 181-208.
*Black, K., Archer, M., 1997b. Nimiokoala. a new genus and species of phascolarctid (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 209-228.
Brammall, J., Archer, M., 1997. A new species of Burramys (Marsupialia, Burramyidae) from the Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 247-268.
Davis, A., Archer, M., 1997. Palorchestes azael (mammalia, palorchestidae) from the late Pleistocene Terrace Site Local Fauna, Riversleigh Station, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 315-320.
Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1997. Early Tertiary mammals in Australia. BiochroM 97, Abstracts.
Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1997. The value of bats for biocorrelating Tertiary mammal-bearing sediments within and beyond Australia. BiochroM 97, Abstracts.
*Hand, S.J., Archer, M. and Godthelp, H., 1997. First record of Hydromops (Microchiroptera: Molossidae) from Australia: its biocorrelative significance. Pp. 153-162 in Actes du Congrès BiochroM'97 ed by J.-P. Aguilar, S. Legendre and J. Michaux. Mémoires et Travaux del'E.P.H.E., Institut de Montpellier 21.
McGowran, B., Archer, M., Darragh, T., Li, Q., Maxwell, P., McNamara, K., McPhail, M., A. Partridge, A., J. Richardson, J., Shafik, S., Truswell, E., Warne, 1997. Australiasian Cainozoic biogeography. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts48: 50-51.
*Myers T.J., Archer, M., 1997. Kuterintja ngama (Marsupialia, Ilariidae): a revised and extended systematic analysis based on fossil material from the late Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 379-392.
Scanlon, J.D , Archer, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H., 1997. Preliminary biostratigraphic analysis of snakes from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Queensland. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts48: 65.

1998

Archer, M., 1998. Koalas: apostles or fossils. Nature Australia 25(11): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1998. Fried and footless fossil fangers. Nature Australia 25(12): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1998. The one-in-600 year wave. Nature Australia 26(1): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1998. Bizarre bats of the burrows. Nature Australia 26(2): 70-71.
Arena, R., Wroe, S., Archer, M. 1998. Additional material referred to the dasyurid Ganbulanyi djadjinguli: phylogenetic and palaeobiological implications. Abstracts of the 2nd Riversleigh Symposium, December 3-4, UNSW: 1.
*Duncan, I.J., Briggs, D.E.G., Archer, M., 1998. Three-dimensionally mineralised insects and millipedes from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia. Palaeontology 41: 835-851.
*Hand, S.J., Murray, P., Megirian, D., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1998. Mystacinid bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary. J. Paleo. 72: 538-545.
Musser, A.M., Archer, M., 1998. New information about the skull and dentary of the Miocene platypus Obdurodon dicksoni, and a discussion of ornithorhynchid relationships. Philosophical Transactions Biological Sciences B 353: 1063-1079.

1999

Archer, M., 1999. The use of fossils to clarify long-term survival trends. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 389-390 (abstract).
Archer, M., 1999. A legacy of boats, bloats and floaters. Nature Australia 26(3): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1999. Tipping an air head out of a bed of stone. Nature Australia 26(4): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1999. Immunising against flim-flam virus. Nature Australia 26(5): 70-71.
Archer, M., 1999. Bugs and bones in ancient stones. Nature Australia 26(6): 70-71.
*Archer, M., Arena, R., Bassarova, M., Black, K., Brammall, J., Cooke, B. N., Crosby, K., Godthelp, H., Gott, M., Hand, S. J., Kear, B., Krikmann, A., Mackness, B., Muirhead, J., Musser, A., Myers, T. J., Pledge, N., Wang, Y., Wroe, S. 1999. The evolutionary history and diversity of Australia's mammals. Australian Mammalogy 21: 1-45.
Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Gott, M., Wang, Y., Musser, A., 1999. The evolutionary history of notoryctids, yingabalanarids, yalkaparidontids and other enigmatic groups of Australian mammals. Australian Mammalogy 21: 13-15.
Bassarova, M., Archer, M., 1999. Living and extinct pseudocheirids (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae): phylogenetic relationships and changes in diversity through time. Australian Mammalogy 21: 25-27.
Brammall, J., Archer, M., 1999. Living and extinct petaurids, acrobatids, tarsipedids and burramyids (Marsupialia): relationships and diversity through time. Australian Mammalogy, 21: 24-25.
Crosby, K., Archer, M. 1999. A new subfamily, genus and species of Miralinidae (Marsupialia: Phalangeroidea) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 396 (abstract).
Crosby, K., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Pledge, N. 1999. Diversity and evolution of phalangerid, ektopodontid, miralinid and pilkipildrid marsupials. Australian Mammalogy 21: 22-23.
*Godthelp, H., Wroe, S., and Archer, M. 1999. A new marsupial from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna of Murgon in southeastern Queensland: the prototypical Australian marsupial? Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 6: 289-313.
Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1999. Origin of New Zealand's endemic mammals solved. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 57: 401-402 (abstract).
*Myers, T., Archer, M., 1999. Kuterintja ngama, new material from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh: illuminating an elusive ilariid. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 57: 413-414 (abstract).
Myers, T., Archer, M., Krikmann, A., Pledge, N. 1999. Diversity and evolutionary relationships of ilariids, wynyardiids, vombatids and related groups of marsupials. Australian Mammalogy 21: 18-19.
Wroe, S., Archer, M., 1999. Were propleopines carnivorous? Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 423 (abstract).
Pledge, N.S., Archer, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H., 1999. Additions to knowledge about ektopodontids (Marsupialia: Ektopodontidae): including a new species Ektopodon litolophus. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 255-264..

2000

Archer, M., 2000. Brain of the demon duck of doom. Nature Australia 26(7): 70-71.
Archer, M., 2000. Monstrous moggies or charming chditches? Nature Australia 26(8): 70-71.
*Crosby, K., Archer, M. 2000. Durudawirines, a new group of phalangeroid marsupials from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 74(2): 327-335.
2001, in press and submitted
*Bassarova, M., Archer, M., Hand, S. J., 2001. New Oligo-Miocene pseudocheirids (Marsupialia) of the genus Paljara from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir in press.
*Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 2001. New Miocene Icarops material (Microchiroptera: Mystacinidae) from Australia, with a revised diagnosis of the genus. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir in press.
Kear, B., Archer, M., Flannery, T., 2001. Bulungamayine (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) postcranial elements from the late Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir in press.
Kear, B., Archer, M., Flannery, T., 2001. Postcranial morphology of Ganguroo bilamina (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir in press.
Mackness, B,S., Archer, M., 2001. Pseudochirops winteri n. sp., a new petauroid possum from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northern Queensland. Alcheringa in press.
*Myers, T., Crosby, K., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Tyler, M., 2001. The Encore Local Fauna: a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir in press.

10 most significant publications of the CI

Archer, M., 1976. The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), interrelationships of carnivorous marsupials, and affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids. J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 59: 217-22.
Archer, M., 1982. Carnivorous marsupials [editor and major contributor]. 2 Volumes Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. & Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Archer, M., 1987. Possums and opossums: studies in evolution [editor and major contributor]. 2 Volumes. Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. & Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Archer, M, Clayton, G., 1984. Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution. Hesperian Press, Perth.
Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., Ritchie, A., Molnar, R.E., 1985. First Mesozoic mammal from Australia--an early Cretaceous monotreme. Nature 318: 363-66.
*Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1988. A new order of Tertiary zalambdodont marsupials. Science 239: 1528-31.
*Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1995. Tertiary environmental and biotic change in Australia. Pp. 77-90 in 'Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins' ed. E. Vrba, G.H. Denton, T.C. Partridge, L.H. Burckle. Yale University Press: New Haven.
*Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Creaser, P., 1997. Correlation of the Cainozoic sediments of the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil property, Queensland, Australia. Pp. 131-152 in Actes du Congrès BiochroM'97 ed by J.-P. Aguilar, S. Legendre, J. Michaux. École Pratique des Hautes Études Institut de Montpellier, France.
*Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Cifelli, R., Hand, S.J., Gilkeson, C.F., 1992. Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna. Nature 356: 514-16.
Pascual, R., Archer, M., Ortiz Jaureguizar, E., Prado, J.L., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., 1992. First discovery of monotremes in South America. Nature 356: 704-706.