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<i>Xenorhinos bhatnagari</i> sp. nov., a new, nasal‐emitting trident bat (Rhinonycteridae, Rhinolophoidea) from early Miocene forests in northern Australia

scientific article published in 2023

A Bizarre New Family of Marsupialia (Incertae sedis) from the Early Pliocene of Northeastern Australia: Implications for the Phylogeny of Bunodont Marsupials

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A NEW SPECIES OF THE WOMBAT WARENDJA FROM LATE MIOCENE DEPOSITS AT RIVERSLEIGH, NORTH-WEST QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

scientific article published in July 2007

A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans

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A New Order of Tertiary Zalambdodont Marsupials

scholarly article (1988)

A description of the molar enamel of a middle Miocene monotreme (Obdurodon, Ornithorhynchidae)

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

A new Miocene carnivorous marsupial, Barinya kutjamarpensis (Dasyuromorphia), from central Australia

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A new Oligo–Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae

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A new cracticid (Passeriformes: Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia

scholarly article by Trevor H. Worthy published in 2013

A new cracticid (Passeriformes: Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia

A new crocodile displaying extreme constriction of the mandible, from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, Australia

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A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland

scientific article

A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes)

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia

scientific article published in Nature

A new petauroid possum (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae) from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Queensland

scientific article published in 2001

A new scincid lizard from the Miocene of Northern Australia, and the evolutionary history of social skinks (Scincidae: Egerniinae)

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A new species of Miocene wombat (Marsupialia, Vombatiformes) from Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the Vombatidae

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A new species of the basal "kangaroo" Balbaroo and a re-evaluation of stem macropodiform interrelationships

scientific article published in 2014

A new, giant platypus,Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia

scientific article published in November 2013

A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species

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A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia

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Additional specimens of the oldest wombatRhizophascolonus crowcrofti(Vombatidae; Marsupialia) from the Wipajiri Formation, South Australia: an intermediate morphology?

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An evening bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the late Early Eocene of France, with comments on the antiquity of modern bats

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Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins

scientific article (publication date: 22 May 2011)

Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications ⬇️

scientific article

Australian Oligo-Miocene Mystacinids (Microchiroptera): upper dentition, new taxa and divergence of New Zealand species

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Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids

scientific article

Bearing up well? Understanding the past, present and future of Australia's koalas

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Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand

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Biogeographical implications of a new mouse-sized fossil bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) occupying a dasyurid-like ecological niche across Australia

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Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials: New data from Australia

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Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

scientific article (publication date: 28 May 2013)

Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: Feeding behavior, electroreception, and loss of teeth

scientific article

Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia

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Correction to ‘Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand’

correction published in December 2021

Cranial anatomy of Oligo-Miocene koalas (Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae): stages in the evolution of an extreme leaf-eating specialization

Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats

scholarly article by Laura A. B. Wilson et al published 17 July 2016 in Alcheringa

DNA/DNA hybridization studies of the carnivorous marsupials. I: The intergeneric relationships of bandicoots (Marsupialia: Perameloidea).

scientific article

Description of a cranial endocast from a fossil platypus, Obdurodon dicksoni (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), and the relevance of endocranial characters to monotreme monophyly

scientific article

Descriptions of koala fossils from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland and implications forLitokoala(Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae)

article published in 2007

Developing a radiometrically-dated chronologic sequence for Neogene biotic change in Australia, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of Queensland

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Dietary analysis of an uncharacteristic population of the Mountain Pygmy-possum in the Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia

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Dwarfism and feeding behaviours in Oligo–Miocene crocodiles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia

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Earliest Australian non-marine bird assemblage from the Early Eocene Tingamurra Local Fauna, Murgon, southeastern Queensland

scientific article published in January 1994

Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna

scientific article (publication date: 9 April 1992)

Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland ⬇️

article by M. Archer et al published 2016 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria

Emydura lavarackorum, a new Pleistocene turtle (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from fluviatile deposits at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland

scientific article published in 1994

Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand

scientific article published in August 2019

Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?

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Extraordinary diphyodonty-related change in dental function for a tooth of the extinct marsupial Ekaltadeta ima (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae).

scientific article published in July 1995

First Eocene bat from Australia

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First Mesozoic mammal from Australia—an early Cretaceous monotreme

scientific article published in Nature

First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial—from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia

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First discovery of monotremes in South America

scientific article published in Nature

First record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand. In Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, ed. W.E. Boles and T.H. Worthy

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Flightless rails (Aves: Rallidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, Otago, New Zealand

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Ganguroo robustiter, sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia

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Geochemical exploration for vertebrate fossils using field portable XRF

Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls

scientific article published in 2021

Hammer-toothed 'marsupial skinks' from the Australian Cenozoic

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2011)

Herds overhead: Nimbadon lavarackorum (Diprotodontidae), heavyweight marsupial herbivores in the Miocene forests of Australia

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Humeral morphology of the early Eocene mekosuchine crocodylianKambarafrom the Tingamarra Local Fauna southeastern Queensland, Australia

scientific article (publication date: December 2012)

Implications of a new species of the Oligo-Miocene kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) Nambaroo, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia

scientific article published in November 2007

Incisions, breakages and charring, some probably man-made, in fossil bones from Mammoth Cave, Western Australia

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Integrating ecology and economics: Illustrating the need to resolve the conflicts of space and time

scientific article published in 1997

Lekaneleo, a new genus of marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the Oligocene–Miocene of Australia, and the craniodental morphology of L. roskellyae, comb. nov.

scientific article published in February 2020

Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia

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Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

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Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation

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Middle Miocene Kangaroos (Macropodoidea: Marsupialia) from three localities in Northern Australia, with a description of two new subfamilies ⬇️

scholarly article (1982)

Miminipossum notioplanetes, a Miocene forest-dwelling phalangeridan (Marsupialia; Diprotodontia) from northern and central Australia

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Miocene Fossils Reveal Ancient Roots for New Zealand's Endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and Its Rainforest Habitat

scientific article published in 2015

Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2006)

Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand

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Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2009)

Multivariate analyses of Cenozoic mammalian faunas from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland

scientific article published in 2006

NEW AUSTRALIAN OLIGOCENE TO MIOCENE RINGTAIL POSSUMS (PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE) AND REVISION OF THE GENUSMARLU

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Namilamadeta snideri, a new diprotodontan (Marsupialia, Vombatoidea) from the medial Miocene of South Australia

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New Tertiary koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, Australia, with a revision of phascolarctid phylogenetics, paleoecology, and paleobiodiversity

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New information about the skull and dentary of the Miocene platypus Obdurodon dicksoni, and a discussion of ornithorhynchid relationships

scientific article (publication date: 29 July 1998)

New material referable toWakaleo(Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo/Miocene marsupial lions

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New specimens of the logrunnerOrthonyx kaldowinyeri(Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia

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Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsurpalia, Phasicolarctidae) von Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland with a revision of Litokoala

scientific article published in 1997

Oligo-Miocene ringtail possums of the genus Paljara (Pseudocheiridae: Marsupialia) from Queensland, Australia

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Optimisation of an oviposition protocol employing human chorionic and pregnant mare serum gonadotropins in the barred frog Mixophyes fasciolatus (Myobatrachidae)

scientific article

Ostracods (Crustacea) with soft part preservation from Miocene cave deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

PARALLEL EVOLUTION OF HAND ANATOMY IN KANGAROOS AND VOMBATIFORM MARSUPIALS: FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS

article by Vera Weisbecker & Mike Archer published March 2008 in Palaeontology

Phylogenetic diversity, types of endemism and the evolutionary history of New World bats

scientific article published in 2018

Phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Oligo-Miocene ratite Emuarius gidju Casuariidae

scientific article

Puntutjarpa Rockshelter and the Australian desert culture. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 54, pt. 1

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Quail-thrushes from the Miocene of northern Australia

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Raemeotherium yatkolai gen, et sp. nov., a primitive diprotodontid from the medial Miocene of South Australia ⬇️

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Reconstructing a Miocene pitfall trap: Recognition and interpretation of fossiliferous Cenozoic palaeokarst

scientific article

Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul

scientific article (publication date: 3 September 2013)

Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae)

scientific article published in 2018

Revision ofWabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia

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Sexually Dimorphic Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) From the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, First Cranial Ontogeny for Fossil Bandicoots and New Species Descriptions

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Siderophore-Assisted Dissolution of Iron(III) Hydroxide Oxides from Iron-Rich Fossil Matrices

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Sminthopsis youngsoni (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) the lesser hairy-footed dunnart, a new species from arid Australia ⬇️

scientific article published in January 1982

Species abundance, richness and body size evolution of kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) throughout the Oligo-Miocene of Australia

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Subcellular preservation in giant ostracod sperm from an early Miocene cave deposit in Australia

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2014)

Synchrotron X-ray imaging of inclusions in amber

scientific article published in 2010

Tertiary mammals of Australia: a synoptic review

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The Burramys Project: a conservationist's reach should exceed history's grasp, or what is the fossil record for?

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

The Calcaneum—On the Heels of Marsupial Locomotion

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The Eltanin asteroid impact: possible South Pacific palaeomegatsunami footprint and potential implications for the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition

The Evolutionary History and Diversity of Australian Mammals ⬇️

scientific article published in 1999

The Osteology and Systematics of the Enigmatic Australian Oligo-Miocene Metatherian Yalkaparidon (Yalkaparidontidae; Yalkaparidontia; ?Australidelphia; Marsupialia)

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The Rise of Australian Marsupials: A Synopsis of Biostratigraphic, Phylogenetic, Palaeoecologic and Palaeobiogeographic Understanding

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The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), interrelationships of carnivorous marsupials, and affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids

scientific article published in 1976

The cell-surface proteoglycan Dally regulates Wingless signalling in Drosophila

scientific article

The evolution and classification of marsupials

The extinct flightless mihirungs (Aves, Dromornithidae): cranial anatomy, a new species, and assessment of Oligo-Miocene lineage diversity

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The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques

scientific article

The late Cenozoic passerine avifauna from Rackham’s Roost Site, Riversleigh, Australia ⬇️

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The mandible and dentition of the Early Cretaceous monotreme Teinolophos trusleri

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

The use of MSR (Minimum Sample Richness) for sample assemblage comparisons

Thirty two years of continuous assessment reveal first year university biology students in Australia are rapidly abandoning beliefs in theistic involvement in human origins

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Traditional and computed tomographic (CT) techniques link modern and Cenozoic fruits ofPleiogynium(Anacardiaceae) from Australia

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Two new neoavian taxa with contrasting palaeobiogeographical implications from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand

scientific article published in 2022

Two new species of the genus Gumardee (Marsupialia, Macropodiformes) reveal the repeated evolution of bilophodonty in kangaroos

scientific article published on 13 February 2022

Variation in the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Australian Oligo-Miocene mekosuchine crocodiles with implications for locomotion and habitus

scientific article

Virtual reconstruction and prey size preference in the mid Cenozoic thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia)

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Warkalania, a new meiolaniid turtle from the Tertiary Riversleigh deposits of Queensland, Australia ⬇️

scientific article

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