Australia's Lost Kingdoms

In this section

• Cretaceous
• Eocene
• Early to middle Miocene
• Late Miocene
• Pliocene
• Pleistocene
• Holocene

Prof Michael Archer, Former Director Australian Museum
Chief Investigator's publications. 1995 - 2001

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.