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Publications (43)      

1. Archer, Michael & Mary E. Wade. 1976 Results of the Ray E. Lemley expeditions, Part 1. The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 379-397.
2. Archer, Michael, Olivia Christmas, Suzanne J. Hand, Karen H. Black, Phil Creaser, Henk Godthelp, Ian Graham, David Cohen, Derrick A. Arena, Caitlin Anderson, Georgia Soares, Naomi Machin, Robin M. D. Beck, Laura A. B. Wilson, Troy J. Myers, Anna K. Gillespie, Bok Khoo & K. J. Travouillon. 2016 Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74: 137–150.
3. Archer, Michael, Pippa Binfield, Suzanne J. Hand, Karen H. Black, Phil Creaser, Troy J. Myers, Anna K. Gillespie, Derrick A. Arena, John Scanlon, N. Pledge & Jenni Thurmer. 2018 Miminipossum notioplanetes, a Miocene forest-dwelling phalangeridan (Marsupialia; Diprotodontia) from northern and central Australia Palaeontologia Electronica 21.1.2A: 1-11.
4. Archer, Michael. 1975 Ningaui, a new genus of tiny dasyurids (Marsupialia) and two new species, N. timealeyi and N. ridei, from arid Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 237-249.
5. Archer, Michael. 1979 Two new species of Sminthopsis Thomas (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia) from northern Australia, S. butleri and S. douglasi. Australian Zoologist 20: 327-345.
6. Archer, Michael. 1982 Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. In Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney. Vol. 2: 397-443.
7. Bates, Hayley, K. J. Travouillon, B. N. Cooke, R. M. D. Beck, Suzanne J. Hand & Michael Archer. 2014 Three new Miocene species of musky rat-kangaroos (Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodoidea): description, phylogenetics and paleoecology Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2): 383-396.
8. Beck, R. M. D., Julien Louys, Philippa Brewer, Michael Archer, Karen H. Black & Richard H. Tedford. 2020 A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes) Scientific Reports 10(9741).
9. Black, Karen H., K. J. Travouillon, Wendy Den Boer, Benjamin Kear, B. N. Cooke & Michael Archer. 2014 A new species of the basal “kangaroo” Balbaroo and a re-evaluation of stem macropodiform interrelationships Public Library of Science, ONE.
10. Brewer, Philippa, Michael Archer, Suzanne Hand & Gilbert J. Price. 2018 A new species of Miocene wombat (Marsupialia, Vombatiformes) from Riversleigh, Queensland, and implications for the evolutionary history of the Vombatidae Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.27A: 1-48.
11. Brewer, Philippa, Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand & Richard Abel. 2015 New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia) Palaeontologia Electronica 18.1.9A: 1-40.
12. Butler, Kaylene, K. J. Travouillon, Gilbert J. Price, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2016 Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
13. Chamberlain, P. m., K. J. Travouillon, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2016 Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum gen. et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 440: 197-206.
14. Churchill, Timothy J., Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2024 THREE NEW THYLACINIDS (MARSUPIALIA, THYLACINIDAE) FROM LATE OLIGOCENE DEPOSITS OF THE RIVERSLEIGH WORLD HERITAGE AREA, NORTHWESTERN QUEENSLAND Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
15. Churchill, Timothy J., Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2025 A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the middle and late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32(16): 1-29.
16. Cooke, B. N., K. J. Travouillon, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2015 GANGUROO ROBUSTITER, SP. NOV. (MACROPODOIDEA, MARSUPIALIA), A MIDDLE TO EARLY LATE MIOCENE BASAL MACROPODID FROM RIVERSLEIGH WORLD HERITAGE AREA, AUSTRALIA Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e956879.
17. Gillespie, Anna K., Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2016 A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.29A: 1-25.
18. Gillespie, Anna K., Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2017 A new Oligo–Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
19. Hand, Suzanne J., Bernard Sige, Michael Archer & Karen H. Black. 2016 An evening bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the late Early Eocene of France, with comments on the antiquity of modern bats Palaeovertebrata 40(2).
20. Hand, Suzanne J., Bernard Sige, Michael Archer & Karen H. Black. 2016 An evening bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the late Early Eocene of France, with comments on the antiquity of modern bats Palaeovertebrata 40(2).
21. Hand, Suzanne J., Daphne E. Lee, Trevor H. Worthy, Michael Archer, Jennifer P. Worthy, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Steven W. Salisbury, R. P. Scofield, D. Mildenhall, E. Kennedy & D. Lindqvist. 2015 Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand’s endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat Public Library of Science, ONE 10(6): e0128871.
22. Hand, Suzanne J., R. M. D. Beck, Michael Archer, Nancy B. Simmons, Gregg F. Gunnell, R. P. Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Vanesa L. De Pietri, Steven W. Salisbury & Trevor H. Worthy. 2018 A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand Scientific Reports 8: 235.
23. Mather, Ellen K., Alan J. D. Tennyson, R. P. Scofield, Vanesa L. De Pietri, Suzanne J. Hand, Michael Archer, Warren D. Handley & Trevor H. Worthy. 2019 Flightless rails (Aves; Rallidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, Otago, New Zealand. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(5): 423-449.
24. Muirhead, Jeanette, L. Dawson & Michael Archer. 1997 Perameles bowensis, a new species of Perameles (Peramelemorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington Caves, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 163-174.
25. Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T., Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2018 Quail-thrush birds from the Miocene of northern Australia Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(3): 493-502.
Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T., Trevor H. Worthy, Walter E. Boles, Suzanne J. Hand & Michael Archer. 2013 A new cracticid (Passeriformes: Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia Emu - Austral Ornithology 113(4): 374-382.
Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T., Walter E. Boles, Trevor H. Worthy, Suzanne J. Hand & Michael Archer. 2014 New specimens of the logrunner Orthonyx kaldowinyeri (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 38(2): 245-255.
Stein, Michael D., Suzanne J. Hand & Michael Archer. 2016 A new crocodile displaying extreme constriction of the mandible, from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, Australia Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Thorn, Kailah M., Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael Archer & Michael S. Y. Lee. 2019 A new scincid lizard from the Miocene of Northern Australia, and the evolutionary history of social skinks (Scincidae: Egerniinae) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology(e1577873): 1–13.
Travouillon, K. J., B. N. Cooke, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2014 Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species Palaeontologia Electronica 17(1.19A): 1-34.
Travouillon, K. J., Julien Louys, Gilbert J. Price, Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand & Jeanette Muirhead. 2017 A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(5): e1360894.
Travouillon, K. J., Kaylene Butler, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2016 New material of Gumardee pascuali Flannery et al., 1983 (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) and two new species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74: 189-207.
Travouillon, K. J., Kaylene Butler, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2022 Two new species of the genus Gumardee (Marsupialia, Macropodiformes) reveal the repeated evolution of bilophodonty in kangaroos Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 46(1): 105-128.
Travouillon, K. J., Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2015 Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 39(2): 274-286.
Travouillon, K. J., Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand & Jeanette Muirhead. 2014 Sexually dimorphic bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, first cranial ontogeny for fossil bandicoots and new species descriptions Journal of mammalian evolution.
Travouillon, K. J., Suzanne J. Hand, Michael Archer & Karen H. Black. 2014 Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (Marsupialia, Peramelidae and Thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2): 375-382.
Travouillon, K. J., Yamila Gurovich, Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand & Jeanette Muirhead. 2013 The genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh’s Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1): 153-168.
Worthy, Trevor H., Alan J. D. Tennyson, Michael Archer & R. P. Scofield. 2010 First Record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand Records of the Australian Museum 62: 77-88.
Worthy, Trevor H., R. P. Scofield, Steven W. Salisbury, Suzanne J. Hand, Vanesa L. De Pietri & Michael Archer. 2022 Two new neoavian taxa with contrasting palaeobiogeographical implications from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand Journal für Ornithologie [Journal of Ornithology] 163: 643-658.
Worthy, Trevor H., R. P. Scofield, Steven W. Salisbury, Suzanne J. Hand, Vanesa L. De Pietri, Jacob C. Blokland & Michael Archer. 2021 A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand. Geobios 70: 87-107.
Worthy, Trevor H., R. P. Scofield, Suzanne J. Hand, Vanesa L. De Pietri & Michael Archer. 2022 A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand Zootaxa 5168(1): 39-50.
Worthy, Trevor H., Suzanne J. Hand, Michael Archer, R. P. Scofield & Vanesa L. De Pietri. 2019 Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand Biology Letters 15(20190467): 1-5.
Worthy, Trevor H., Warren D. Handley, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand. 2016 The extinct flightless mihirungs (Aves, Dromornithidae): cranial anatomy, a new species and assessment of Oligo-Miocene lineage diversity Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3): 1-21.
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