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Riversleigh publications by Prof Michael Archer, Director Australian Museum
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, Abstracts 48: 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, Abstracts 48: 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, in press and submitted
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.
Bassarova, M., Archer, M., Hand, S. J., submit. New Oligo-Miocene pseudocheirids (Marsupialia) of the genus Paljara from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
*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.
Hand, S., Archer, M., submit. Two new leaf-nosed bats (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northern Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., submit. New Miocene Icarops material (Microchiroptera: Mystacinidae) from Australia, with a revised diagnosis of the genus. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Kear, B., Archer, M., Flannery, T., submit. Bulungamayine (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) postcranial elements from the late Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Kear, B., Archer, M., Flannery, T., submit. Postcranial morphology of Ganguroo bilamina (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Mackness, B,S., Archer, M., submitted. Pseudochirops winteri n. sp., a new petauroid possum from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy.
Myers, T., Crosby, K., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Tyler, M., submit. The Encore Local Fauna: a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Sigé, B., Archer, M., Crochet, J.-Y, Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., submit. Chulpasia: first genus of therian mammals to span the Southern Hemisphere. Nature.
Sigé, B., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. and Archer, M., submit. New material and relationships of the Australian early Tertiary bat Australonycteris clarkae. Journal of Paleontology.
Riversleigh publications by Associate Investigators
Arena, D.A., 1997. A preliminary overview of the palaeontology and geology of Dunsinane Site, Riversleigh. Mem Qd Mus. 41: 171-179.
Arena, D.A., Black, K., 1999. An early-middle Miocene cave deposit at Riversleigh. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 390 (abstract).
Black, K., 1995. An overview of the diprotodontoids (Marsupialia, Vombatomorphia) of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland: their diversity and phylogeny. Abstracts of the 5th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Canberra: 3.
Black, K., 1997a. A preliminary analysis of the diversity and biostratigraphy of the diprotodontoids (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae, Palorchestidae) of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 187-192.
Black, K., 1997b. A new species of palorchestid (Marsupialia, Palorchestidae) from the late middle to early late Miocene Encore Local Fauna, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd. Mus. 41: 181-185.
Black, K., 1999. Diversity and relationships of living and extinct koalas (Phascolarctidae, Marsupialia). Australian Mammalogy 21: 16-17.
Black, K., 1999. Observations on the postcranial skeleton of Nimbadon sp. (Zygomaturinae, Marsupialia) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. CAVEPS 99, Sydney, Abstracts.
Black, K., Mackness, B.S. 1999. Diversity and relationships of diprotodontoid marsupials. Australian Mammalogy, 21: 20-21
Boles, W.E., 1995a. A preliminary analysis of the Passeriformes from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with the description of a new species of lyrebird. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181: 163-170.
Boles, W.E., 1995b. The world's earliest songbird (Aves: Passeriformes). Nature 374: 21-22.
Boles, W.E., 1997a. Riversleigh birds as palaeoenvironmental indicators: a preliminary assessment. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 241-246.
Boles, W.E., 1997b. A kingfisher (Halcyonidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 229-234.
Boles, W.E. 1997c. Fossil songbirds (Passeriformes) from the Early Eocene of Australia. Emu 97: 43-50.
Boles, W.E., 1997d. Hindlimb proportions and locomotion of Emuarius gidju (Patterson and Rich, 1987) (Aves: Casuariidae). Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 235-240
Boles, W.E. 1998. A Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus from the Pliocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Emu 98: 1-4.
Boles, W.E. 1999a. Early Eocene shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) from the Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, Queensland, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 229-238,
Boles, W.E. 1999b. A songbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Oriolidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa 23: 51-56.
Boles, W.E. 1999c. The big picture. Wingspan 9: 16-19, 21
Boles, W.E., submit. A swiftlet (Apodidae: Collocaliini) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Boles, W.E. & Ivison, T.J. 1999. A new genus of dwarf megapode (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) from the Late Oligocene of central Australia. In Olson, S.L. (ed). Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 199-206.
Brammall, J., 1995. Fossil clues to bandicoot origins. Campus Review July 20-26: p. 6.
Brammall, J., 1996. Is the Mountain Pygmy-possum really Burramys parvus? Abstracts: Australian Mammal Society 1996 Annual General Meeting and Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, July, 1996.
Cooke, B.N., 1997a. Two new balbarine kangaroos (Marsupialia, Potoroidae) and lower molar evolution within the subfamily. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 269-280.
Cooke, B.N., 1997b. New balbarine kangaroos (Marsupialia, Potoroidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 281-294.
Cooke, B.N., 1997c. Biostratigraphic implications of the fossil kangaroos at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 295-302.
Cooke, B.N., 1999. Fossil kangaroos and kangaroo phylogeny. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 395-396 (abstract).
Cooke, B.N., 1999. Wanburoo hilarus gen. et. sp. nov., a lophodont bulungamayine kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea: Bulungamayinae) from the Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 239-253.
Cooke, B., Kear, B., 1999. Evolution and diversity of kangaroos (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia). Australian Mammalogy 21: 27-29.
Creaser, P., 1995. The Oligo-Miocene sediments of Riversleigh: preliminary observations. Abstracts CAVEPS, Canberra:S 2-3.
Creaser, P., 1997. Oligo-Miocene sediments of Riversleigh: preliminary observations including the significance of relative topographic heights of sites. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 303-314.
Dawson, L., Muirhead, J., and Wroe, S. 1999. The Big Sink Local Fauna: a new lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement No. 57, 265-290.
Duncan, I.J., Briggs, D.E.G., 1996. Three-dimensionally preserved insects from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Australia. Nature 381: 30-31.
Gillespie, A., 1997. New Oligo-Miocene thylacoleonids (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with description of a new species of Priscileo. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 321-327.
Gillespie, A., 1999. Diversity and evolutionary relationships of marsupial lions. Australian Mammalogy, 21: 21-22.
Godthelp, H., 1997. Zyzomys rackhami (Rodentia: Muridae) a new species of Rockrat from the Pliocene Rackhams Roost Site, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd. Mus. 41: 329-333.
Godthelp, H., 1999. Diversity, relationships and orgins of the Australian Tertiary and Quaternary rodents of Australia. Australian Mammalogy 21: 32-34.
Godthelp, H., 1999.The Australian rodent fauna, flotilla's, flotsam or just fleetfooted? Where Worlds Collide: Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in SE Asia-Australasia, University of New England, Armidale (Abstract).
Hand, S.J., 1995. Australian fossil bats: new pieces for ancient puzzles. 10th Internat. Bat Res.Conf., Boston, Abstracts: 2.
Hand, S.J., 1996. New Miocene and Pliocene megadermatids (Microchiroptera: Megaderma) from Australia, with broader comments on megadermatid evolution. Geobios 29: 365-377.
Hand, S.J., 1997. New World order in bat biogeography. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 48: 35.
Hand, S.J., 1997. Hipposideros bernardsigei, a new hipposiderid (Microchiroptera) from the Miocene of Australia and a reconsideration of the monophyly of related species groups. Müncher Geowiss. Abh . A34: 73-92.
Hand, S.J., 1997. New Miocene leaf-nosed bats (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Riversleigh Station, Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 335-349.
Hand, S.J., 1997. Miophyllorhina riversleighensis n. gen. et sp., a new Miocene leaf-nosed bat (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Riversleigh, Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus . 41: 351-354.
Hand, S. J., 1998. Xenorhinos, a new genus of Old World leaf-nosed bats (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) from the Australian Miocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 430-439.
Hand, S. J., 1998. Riversleigha williamsi n.gen. et n. sp., a large new Miocene hipposiderid from Riversleigh, Queensland. Alcheringa 22: 259-76.
Hand, S.J., 1999. Australian fossil bat diversity and evolution. Australian Mammalogy 21: 29-32.
Hand, S.J., submitted. A new Miocene bat from Australia, with comments on the evolution of the hipposiderid subtribe Coelopsina (sen. Nov.). Journal of Paleontology.
Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1999. First Australian Pliocene Hipposideros (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 299-306.
Hand, S.J., Kirsch, J.A.W., 1998. A southern origin for the Hipposideridae (Microchiroptera)? Evidence from the Australian fossil record. Pp. 72-90 in "Bat Biology and Conservation", ed T. Kunz and P. Racey. Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
Hand, S.J., Murray, P., Megirian, D., 1995. A new genus and three new species of molossid bats from the Miocene of Northern Australia. Conf. Australasian Vert. Evol., Palaeont. and System.95, Canberra, Abstracts, p.12.
Hand, S.J.., Mackness, B., Wilkinson, C., Wilkinson, D., 1999. First Australian Pliocene molossid bat: Mormopterus (Micronomus) sp. from the Chinchilla Local Fauna, southeastern Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 291-298.
Hand, S.J., Murray, P., Megirian, D., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1998. Mystacinid bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary. J. Paleo. 72: 538-545
Hutchinson, M.N., 1997. Pygopod lizards: mandibular variation and first fossil record from the Miocene of Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 355-366.
Jolly, S., Hand, S.J., 1995. Orange Leafnosed-bat Rhinonicteris aurantius. Pp. 464-65 in 'The complete book of Australian mammals', ed R. Strahan. 2nd Ed. Reed Books: Sydney
Kear, B. P., submit. Macropodoid endocranial casts from the Miocene of Riversleigh northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa.
Kear, B., Cooke, B., submit. A review of kangaroo systematics with the inclusion of a new family. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Krajewski, C., Wroe, S., and Westerman, M. 1999. Molecular evidence for phylogenetic relationships and the timing of cladogenesis in dasyurid marsupials. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, (In press).
Liebig, K., Frey, E., Theobald, G., Willis P., 1996. Taphonomy of crocodilians from the Eocene Lake Messel (Darmstadt, Germany) with implications for the sedimentary environments. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 199: 269-293.
Mackness, B.S. 1995. The Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae from the early Pliocene of northern Australia with comments on its past distribution. CAVEPS '95: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics. Canberra, 19-21 April 1995.
Mackness, B.S., 1995. Palorchestes selestiae, a new species of palorchestid marsupial from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northeastern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 38: 603-609.
Mackness, B.S., 1995. A review of late Cainozoic diprotodontids. CAVEPS '95: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics. Canberra, 19-21 April 1995.
Mackness, B.S., 1995. Anhinga malagurala, a new pygmy darter from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northeastern Queensland. Emu 95: 265-271.
Mackness, B.S., 1995. The Bluff Downs Local Fauna - a new synopsis. CAVEPS '95: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics. Canberra, 19-21 April 1995.
Mackness, B.S., 1995. The discovery and rediscovery of Palorchestes, a marsupial tapir from Queensland. Abstract from 'History of Natural History in Queensland Symposium' Queensland Museum 14 October, 1995.
Mackness, B.S., submitted. Fossil molluscs from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna with a description of a new species. Molluscan Research.
Mackness, B.S., submitted. The Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae from the early Pliocene of northern Australia with comments on its past distribution. Emu
Mackness, B.S., submitted. Nettapus blackmani, a new species of pygmy-goose from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Queensland. Alcheringa.
Mackness, B.S. 1999. An additional record of a meiolaniid turtle From the Pleistocene of Northern Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 123: 153-154.
Mackness, B.S., submitted. Fossil crocodilians from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.
Mackness, B.S., Cooper, J.E., Wilkinson, C., Wilkinson, D., submitted. Palaeopathology of a crocodile femur from the Pliocene of eastern Australia. The Herpetological Journal.
Mackness, B.S., Hutchinson, M., in press. Fossil reptiles from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna. Lizards. Rec. S. Aust. Mus.
Mackness, B.S., Scanlon, J.D., 1999. The first Pliocene record of the madtsoiid snake genus Yurlunggur Scanlon, 1992 from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 783-785.
Mackness, B.S., Sutton, R.H. (in press). Evidence for intraspecific aggression in a Pliocene crocodile from northern Australia? Alcheringa 24
Mackness, B.S., van Tets, G.F., 1995. The status of the fossil darter Anhinga laticeps De Vis from the Late Pleistocene of Australia. Mem. Qd Mus. 38: 611-614.
Mackness B.S., Whitehead, P., McNamara, G., in press. A new potassium-argon date for the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Mackness, B.S., Wroe, S., Muirhead, J., Wilkinson, C., Wilkinson, D., submit. First fossil bandicoot from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna. Australian Mammalogy.
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Molnar, R.E., Willis, P.M., 1996. A neosuchian crocodile from the Queensland Cretaceous. Fifty-sixth annual meeting , Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York: 54A (Abstract).
Muirhead, J., 1995. Riversleigh bandicoots. 5th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics: Abstracts p 16.
Muirhead, J., 1997. Two new thylacinids (Marsupialia; Thylacinidae) from early Miocene sediments of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland and a revision of the Family Thylacinidae. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 367-377.
Muirhead, J., 1999. Bandicoot diversity and evolution (Peramelemorphia, Marsupialia): the fossil evidence. Australian Mammalogy 21: 11-12.
Muirhead, J. 1999. Yaraloidea (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia), a new superfamily of marsupial and a description and analysis of the cranium of the Miocene Yarala burchfieldi. Journal of Paleontology. In press.
Muirhead, J. (submitted). Size guilding in a Miocene mammal fauna. Australian Mammalogy.
Muirhead, J., Filan, S., 1995. Yarala burchfieldi, a plesiomorphic bandicoot (Marsupialia, Perameloidea) from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 69: 127-134.
Muirhead, J., Gillespie, A. K., 1995. Additional parts of the type specimen of Thylacinus macknessi (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland. Aust. Mammal. 18: 55-60.
Muirhead, J., Godthelp, H., 1997. Fossil bandicoots of Chillagoe (northeastern Queensland) and the first known specimens of the Pig-Footed Bandicoot Chaeopus Ogilby, 1838 from Queensland. Aust. Mammal. 19: 81-84.
Muirhead, J., Wroe, S. 1998. Badjcinus turnbulli, a new thylacinid (Thylacinidae; Marsupialia) from a late MIocene fauna in Queensland, Australia and the first description of a pre-Pliocene dasyuromorphian skull. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18: 612-626.
Musser, A., 1997. Examining relationships of the monotremes in a biogeographical context. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 48: 57.
Musser, A, 1998. Evolution, biogeography and palaeoecology of the Ornithorhynchidae. Australian Mammalogy 20: 147-162.
Musser, A. M., 1999. Monotreme evolution with a focus on the platypus family. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 413 (abstract).
Myers, T., 1997. Comparative palaeoecology of Cainozoic Riversleigh faunas. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 48: Palaeobiogeography of Australasian Faunas and Floras.
Myers, T. 1998. Comparative palaeoecology of Riversleigh local faunas. Riversleigh Symposium, University of New South Wales, Abstracts.
Myers, T. 1999. Cranio-dental predictors of body size in fossil marsupials. Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics, University of New South Wales, 1999 Abstracts.
Myers, T. (submit). Predicting body weight in fossil marsupials. Journal of Mammalogy.
Myers, T., Crosby, K. 1998. The Encore Local Fauna, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Riversleigh 1998 Abstracts. University of New South Wales.
Myers, T. J., Wroe, S., submit. Estimating body size of marsupicarnivores using cranio-dental variables, Australian Journal of Zoology
Richards, G.C., Hand, S.J., 1995. Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas. Pp. 446-47 in 'The complete book of Australian mammals', ed R. Strahan. 2nd Ed. Reed Books: Sydney
Salisbury, S.W., Willis, P.M.A., 1996. A new crocodylian from the early Eocene of southeastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation into the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids. Alcheringa 20: 179-226.
Salisbury, S.W., Willis, P.M.A., Scanlon, J.D., Mackness, B., 1997. Plio-Pleistocene gigantism in Quinkana (Crocodyloidea; Mekosuchinae). Linnean Society of New South Wales. (In press).
Scanlon, J.D., 1995. An elapid snake (Hydropheinae) from the middle Miocene Encore Site, Riversleigh. 5th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics, Collected Abstracts.
Scanlon, J.D., 1995. First records from Wellington Caves, New South Wales, of the extinct madtsoiid snake Wonambi naracoortensis Smith, 1976. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 115: 233-238.
Scanlon, J.D., 1997a. Evidence from the braincase for the phylogenetic position of the extinct family Madtsoiidae (Serpentes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. (In press).
Scanlon, J.D., 1997b. Nanowana gen. nov. small madtsoiid snakes from the Miocene of Riversleigh: sympatric species with divergently specialised dentitions. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 393-412.
Scanlon, J.D., submit. Montypythonoides revisited: the Miocene snake Morelia riversleighensis (Smith and Plane, 1985) and the question of pythonine origins. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Scanlon, J.D., Lee, M.S.Y., Barrie, D.J., 1999. Wonambi (Madtsoiidae) and the origin of snakes. Poster and abstract, Australian Evolution Society (UQ, Brisbane), Systematics Association of England (Glasgow, UK) and Australian Society of Herpetologists (Alice Springs, N.T.)]
Scanlon, J.D., Lee, M.S.Y., 2000. The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early evolution of snakes. Nature [27 Jan 2000]
Scanlon, J.D., Lee, M.S.Y. (submit). Varanoid-like dentition in primitive snakes. Journal of Herpetology
Scanlon, J.D., Lee, M.S.Y. (submit). On the lower jaw and intramandibular septum in snakes and anguimorph lizards. Copeia
Scanlon, J.D., Mackness, B.S., submitted. Liasis dubudingala, a new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland. Alcheringa.
Smith, L., van der Meer, A., submit. Riversleigh - a cultural landscape? Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Thomson, S. & Mackness, B.S. 1999. Fossil reptiles from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna. Turtles: with a description of a new species of Elseya. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 123: 101-105.
White, A., 1997. Cainozoic turtle assemblages from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 413-421.
White, A., submit. Eocene soft-shelled (Trionychidae) turtles from Murgon, south-eastern Queensland. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Willis, P.M.A., 1997. New crocodilians from the late Miocene White Hunter Site, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 423-437.
Willis, Paul M.A., in press. New crocodilian material from Ringtail Site, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Proceedings from the Crocodilian Biology Conference, Brisbane 1998.
Willis, P.M.A., Mackness, B., 1996. Quinkana babarra, a new species of ziphodont mekosuchine crocodile from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, Northern Australia, with a revision of the genus. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 116: 143-151.
Willis, P.M.A., Molnar, R.E, 1997. A Review of the Plio-Pleistocene Crocodilian Genus Pallimnarchus. Proceedings and Journal of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 223-242.
Willis, P.M.A., Molnar, R.E, 1997. Identification of large reptilian teeth from Plio-Pleistocene depostis of Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 130: 79-92.
Wroe, S. 1995. Two new species of dasyuromorphian from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland: problems with family level distinction. Abstracts of the 1995 Conference on Australian Vertebrate Palaeontology, Evolution and Systematics. Alice Springs, NT, March 28-30, p. 256. Canberra, ACT, 1: 148.
Wroe, S. 1996a. An investigation of phylogeny in the giant rat-kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology, 70: 677-686.
Wroe, S. 1996b. Muribacinus gadiyuli gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia), a new and very plesiomorphic thylacinid from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae. Journal of Paleontology 70: 1032-1044.
Wroe, S. 1997a. A re-examination of proposed morphology-based synapomorphies for the families of Dasyuromorphia (Marsupialia): Part I, Dasyuridae. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 4: 19-52.
Wroe, S. 1997b. Mayigriphus orbus, a new species of dasyuromorphian (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 41: 439-448.
Wroe, S. 1997c. Stratigraphy and phylogeny in the giant extinct rat-kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae, Marsupialia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 41: 449-456.
Wroe, S. 1997d. Were propleopines carnivorous? Abstracts of the Sixth Conference on Australian Vertebrate Palaeontology, Evolution and Systematics. Perth, July 7-11, p. 148.
Wroe, S., 1997e. A new marsupial from the Early Eocene Tingamarra local fuana of Murgon, Southeastern Queensland and its significance in the understanding of Australian marsupial origins. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 48: 114.
Wroe, S. 1998a. A new 'bone-cracking' dasyurid (Marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Alcheringa, 22: 277-284.
Wroe, S. 1998b. Killer kangaroo. Australasian Science, 19: 25-28.
Wroe, S. 1998c. New fossil material from Eocene, late Oligocene and Miocene deposits of Queensland and its significance in the inference of Australian marsupial carnivore evolution. Abstracts of the 1998 Australian Vertebrate Palaeontology Student Conference: 19-21.
Wroe, S. 1999a. The geologically oldest dasyurid (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Palaeontology, 42: 501-527.
Wroe, S. 1999b. Killer kangaroos and other murderous marsupials. Scientific American, 280, 68-74.
Wroe, S. 1999c. The bird from hell? Nature Australia, 26 (7): 58-65.
Wroe, S. 1999d. Joculosium muizoni, a new genus and species of dasyuromorphian, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa, (Submit).
Wroe, .S. 2000. Move over Smilodon. Nature Australia, 27: (In press).
Wroe, S., submit. A new genus and species of dasyuromorphian, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northern Australia Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir
Wroe, S., Brammall, J., Cooke, B. 1998. The skull of Ekaltadeta ima (Marsupialia, Hypsiprymnodontidae?): An analysis of some marsupial cranial features and a reinvestigation of propleopine phylogeny, with notes on the inference of carnivory in mammals. Journal of Paleontology, 72: 738-751.
Wroe, S., Mackness, B. S. 1998. Revision of the Pliocene dasyurid, Dasyurus dunmalli (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42: 605-612.
Wroe, S., Mackness, B. S., in press. Additional material of Dasyurus dunmalli from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of southeastern Queensland: and another look at the phylogeny of Dasyurus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.
Wroe, S., Mackness, B. S. , in press. A new genus and species of dasyurine marsupial from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna, southeastern Queensland. Alcheringa.
Wroe, S., Muirhead, J. 1999. Evolution of Australian marsupicarnivores (Dasyuridae, Thylacinidae, Myrmecobiidae, Dasyuromorphia incertae sedis, Marsupialia incertae sedis). Australian Mammalogy, 21: 10-11.
Wroe, S., Muizon, C., de, Myers, T., Mackness, B. N. 1998. Deconstructing the Mystery of the Meganesian Carnivores. Abstracts of the 2nd Riversleigh Symposium, December 3-4, UNSW, p. 14.
Wroe, S, Muizon, C. de, Muirhead, J. 1999. Phylogeny of Australian marsupicarnivores: a parsimony-based analysis using cranial and dental data. Journal of Mammalogy, (In press).
Wroe, S., and Myers, T. J. 1998. Fallacy and future-eating. Australasian Science 19 (9): 27-29.
Wroe, S., Myers, T. J., Wells, R. T., Gillespie, A. 1999. Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleonidae: Marsupialia): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator and hypotheses of impoverishment for mammalian carnivore faunas. Australian Journal of Zoology, 47 (In press).
Wroe, S., Myers, T. J., Sherwin, R., Gillespie, A. 1999. Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleonidae: Marsupialia): marsupial super-predator. Abstracts of the Australian Mammal Society Conference. University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury NSW, July 5-8, p. 20.
Wroe, S., Muizon, C., de, Myers, T. J., Mackness, B. S. 1999. Deconstructing the 'mystery of the meganesian meat-eaters'. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (Submit).
CD-ROM
Tales from the Kangaroo's Crypt: 4 billion years of extraordinary Australia', produced by a consortium of UNSW, the Riversleigh Society, National Museum of Australia, Australian Broadcasting Commission and Energy Entertainment, for the Australian Federal Government's program Australia on CD.
Video
Window into our past', video prepared by the Riversleigh Interpretative Centre Mount Isa
Message in the rocks', video prepared by the University of New South Wales Audiovisual Unit
Theses relevant to the present proposal, submitted by students of Archer between 1995-99
Arena, D.A., 1995. The Geology and Palaeontology of Dunsinane Site, Riversleigh Station, northwestern Queensland. Honours Thesis (2.1) (UNSW Biol. Science).
Bassarova, M., 1999. Description and phylogenetic analysis of new species of ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia) of the genus Paljara from Oligo-Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Property, northwestern Queensland. Honours thesis (First Class) (UNSW, Biol. Science).
Cooke, B., 1996. Studies in the phylogeny of macropodoids. PhD Thesis (UNSW, Biol. Science).
Crosby, K., 1997. A new genus of miralinids (Marsupialia, Diprotodontia) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. (First Class) (UNSW Biol. Science).
Myers, T., 1995. Kuterintja ngama (Marsupialia, Ilariidae) : a revised and extended systematic and phylogenetic analysis based on fossil material from Oligo-Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Honours thesis (First Class) (UNSW, Biol. Science/Geology).
Nettle, K., 1997. New species of the genus Marlu (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. (First Class) (UNSW Biol. Science).
Salisbury, S., 1995. Cranial anatomy and reassessment of the phylogenetic position of early Eocene crocodiles from Murgon, southeastern Queensland. Honours thesis (First Class) (UNSW Biol. Science).
Saville, N., 1996. Assessment of the potential value of the nose-leaf structure for phylogenetic studies of hipposiderid bats. Honours Thesis (2.1) (UNSW Biol. Science).
Scanlon, J., 1996. Phylogeny of Australian snakes. PhD thesis (UNSW Biol. Science).
Van der Meer, A., 1997. The archaeology of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. (Grade to be determined) (UNSW, Biol. Science).
Willis, P.A., 1995. Phylogeny of Australian crocodiles. PhD thesis (UNSW, Biol. Science).
Wroe, S. W. 1998. Evolution, phylogeny and palaeontology of Australian marsupicarnivores. PhD thesis (UNSW, Biol. Science).
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