Mike Archer
Mike Archer

Professor Mike Archer AM: publications

A. Books (and/or special issues of journals) authored/edited

1. Archer, M., 1978 (ed). Texas Caves. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Vol. 19).

2. Archer, M., 1982 (ed). Carnivorous marsupials. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.

3. Archer, M., 1982. Mammals in Australia. Australian Museum: Sydney.

4. Archer, M., 1987 (ed). Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd & Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.

5. Archer, M., 1992. Fossil hunters: the job of palaeontologists. Bookshelf Publ. Aust. Pty Ltd: Sydney.

6. Archer, M., Beale, B., 2004. Going Native. Hodder and Headline, Sydney.

7. Archer, M., Brammall, J., Field, J., Hand, S.J., Hook, C., 2002. Australia's evolution: 100 million years of change. Australian Museum, Sydney, 91 pp.

8. Archer, M., Clayton, G. (eds), 1984. Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia. Hesperian: Perth.

9. Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., 1985. The kangaroo. Weldons Pty Ltd: Sydney.

10. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1986. Uncovering Australia's dreamtime. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd: Sydney.

11. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1991 (First Ed.). Riversleigh. Reed Books Pty Ltd: Sydney.

12. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1994 (Second Ed.). Riversleigh. Reed Books Pty Ltd: Sydney.

13. Hand, S.J., Archer, M. (eds), 1987. The antipodean ark. Angus & Robertson: Sydney.

14. Jones, M., Dickman, C., Archer, M. (editors), 2004. Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials. CSIRO Publications. 486 pp.

15. Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T., Hand, S.J. 2002. Fossil mammals of Australia and New Guinea. UNSW Press. 244 pp.

16. Luckett, P., Archer, M. (eds), 1985. "Form-function analyses: the teeth and skulls of carnivores." Australian Mammalogy (Vol. 8, No. 4).

17. Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G., Lee, M. (eds), 2007. Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd: Sydney. 942 pp.

18. Quirk, S., Archer, M. (eds), 1983. Prehistoric animals of Australia. Australian Museum: Sydney.

B. Journal articles

The following does not include reports to Government. I have split publications noted below into four categories: 1, Research publications featured by journal; 2, normal research publications (includes the first category); 3, non-technical publications about the significance of the research; 4, research conference abstracts.

1. Selected research publications featured/distinguished by peer-reviewed journals include the following

Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., Ritchie, A., Molnar, R.E., 1985.  First Mesozoic mammal from Australia--an early Cretaceous monotreme.  Nature 318: 363-66 (Cover story for that issue of Nature)

Archer, M., 2002. Confronting crises in conservation: a talk on the wild side. Pp. 12-52 in ‘A zoological revolution: using native fauna to assist in its own survival', ed. D. Lunney & C. Dickman. Australian Museum and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney (Cover story for that volume)

Hand, S.J., Weisbecker, V., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, T.H. 2009. Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9: 169 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-169 (declared by BMC Evol. Biol. to be a ‘Featured Article' and ‘Highly Accessed')

Lee, M.S.Y., Hutchinson, M.N., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P. 2009 (in press). Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0440 (Cover story for that issue of Biology  Letters)

Louys, J., Aplin, K., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M. 2009 (in press). Cranial anatomy of Oligo-Miocene koalas (Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae): stages in the evolution of an extreme leaf-eating specialization. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Cover story for that issue of JVP)

Black, K., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 2010. First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial—from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 993-1011 (Cover story for that issue of JVP)

2. Research publications

  1. Archer, M., 1970.  Nullarbor 1969.  Western Caver 12: 17-20.
  2. Archer, M., 1970.  Nullarbor 1970.  Western Caver 12: 21-24.
  3. Archer, M., 1971.  A re-evaluation of the Fromme's Landing Thylacine tooth.  Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 84: 229-33.
  4. Archer, M., 1972.  Domestic cats and dogs--a danger to the Australian fauna.  West. Aust. Nat. 12: 85-87.
  5. Archer, M., 1972.  Phascolarctos  (Marsupialia, Vombatoidea) and an associated fossil fauna from Koala Cave near Yanchep, Western Australia.  Helictite 10: 45-59.
  6. Archer, M., Baynes, A., 1972.  Prehistoric mammal faunas from two small caves in the extreme south-west of Western Australia.  J. Proc. R. Soc. W. Aust. 55: 80-89.
  7. Archer, M., 1974.  Apparent association of bone and charcoal of different origin and age in cave deposits.  Mem. Qd Mus. 17: 37-48.
  8. Archer, M., 1974.  Excavations in the Orchestra Shell Cave, Wanneroo, Western Australia.  Part III.  Fossil vertebrate remains.  Arch. & Phys. Anthrop. in Oceania 9: 156-62.
  9. Archer, M., 1974.  New information about the Quaternary distribution of the Thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) in Australia.  J. Proc. R. Soc. W. Aust. 57: 43-50.
  10. Archer, M., 1974.  Some aspects of reproductive behaviour and the male erectile organs of Dasyurus geoffroii  and D. hallucatus  (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia).  Mem. Qd Mus. 17: 63-67.
  11. Archer, M., 1974.  The development of the cheek-teeth in Antechinus flavipes  (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae).  J. Proc. R. Soc. W. Aust. 57: 54-63.
  12. Archer, M., Beutel, E., 1974.  Techniques in quarrying large blocks of unconsolidated fossil-bearing matrix.  Kalori 49: 57-63.
  13. Archer, M., Tebble, T., 1974.  The study of the inner ear of small mammals.  Kalori 48: 51-52.
  14. Archer, M., 1975.  Abnormal dental development and its significance in dasyurids and other marsupials.  Mem. Qd Mus. 17: 251-65.
  15. Archer, M., 1975.  Ningaui , a new genus of tiny dasyurids (Marsupialia) and two new species, from arid Western Australia, N. timealeyi  and N. rideiMem. Qd Mus. 17: 237-49.
  16. Archer, M., 1975.  The development of premolar and molar crowns in Antechinus flavipes  (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae) and the significance of cusp ontogeny in mammalian teeth.  J. Proc. R. Soc. W. Aust. 57: 121-34.
  17. Archer, M., 1976.  Application for the suppression of the name Sminthopsis murina  var.constricta  Spencer, 1896 (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae).  N.Z.(S.) 2080.  Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 33: 127-28.
  18. Archer, M., 1976.  Miocene marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia) from central South Australia, Ankotarinja tirarensis  gen. et sp. nov., Keeuna woodburnei  gen. et sp. nov., and their significance in terms of early marsupial radiations.  Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 100: 53-73.
  19. Archer, M., 1976.  Phascolarctid origins and the potential of the selenodont molar in the evolution of diprotodont marsupials.  Mem. Qd Mus. 17: 367-71.
  20. Archer, M., 1976.  Revision of the marsupial genus Planigale  Troughton (Dasyuridae).  Mem. Qd Mus. 17: 341-65.
  21. 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.
  22. Archer, M., 1976.  The dasyurid dentition and its relationships to that of didelphids, thylacinids, borhyaenids (Marsupicarnivora) and peramelids (Peramelina: Marsupialia).  Aust. J. Zool. suppl. ser.  39: 1-34.
  23. Archer, M., Wade, M., 1976.  Results of the Ray E. Lemley Expeditions, Part 1.  The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus.  17: 379-97.
  24. Archer, M., 1977.  Faunal remains from the excavation at Puntutjarpa Rockshelter.  Pp. 158-65 in  "Puntutjarpa Rockshelter and the Australian desert culture" ed R.A. Gould.  Anthrop. Pap. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.  54.
  25. Archer, M., 1977.  Koalas (phascolarctids) and their significance in marsupial evolution.  Pp. 20-28 in  "The Koala" ed by T.J. Bergin.  Taronga Park Zoological Gardens: Sydney.
  26. Archer, M., 1977.  Koobor notabilis  (De Vis), an unusual koala from the Pliocene Chinchilla Sand.  Mem. Qd Mus.  18: 31-35.
  27. Archer, M., 1977.  Origins and subfamilial relationships of Diprotodon  (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia).  Mem. Qd Mus.  18: 37-39.
  28. Archer, M., Elliot, A., 1977.  Quarrying fossils in north Queensland.  Kalori  52: 41-42.
  29. Archer, M., Kirsch, J.A.W., 1977.  The case for the Thylacomyidae and Myrmecobiidae, Gill, 1872, or why are marsupial families so extended?  Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.  102: 18-25.
  30. Hecht, M.K., Archer, M., 1977.  Presence of xiphodont crocodilians in the Tertiary and Pleistocene of Australia.  Alcheringa  1: 383-85.
  31. Tedford, R.H., Archer, M., Bartholomai, A., Plane, M.D., Pledge, N.S., Rich, T.H., Rich, P.V., Wells, R.T., 1977.  The discovery of Miocene vertebrates, Lake Frome area, South Australia.  B.M.R.J. Aust. Geo. and Geophys.  2: 53-57.
  32. Archer, M., 1978.  Australia's oldest bat.  Proc. R. Soc. Qd  89: 23-24.
  33. Archer, M., 1978.  Modern fauna and flora of the Texas Caves area, southeastern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus.  19: 111-19.
  34. Archer, M., 1978.  Quaternary vertebrate faunas from the Texas Caves of southeastern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus.  19: 61-109.
  35. Archer, M., 1978.  The nature of the molar-premolar boundary in marsupials and a reinterpretation of the homology of marsupial cheekteeth.  Mem. Qd. Mus.  18: 157-64.
  36. Archer, M., Bartholomai, A., 1978.  Tertiary mammals of Australia: a synoptic review.  Alcheringa  2: 1-19.
  37. Archer, M., Bartholomai, A., Marshall, L.G., 1978.  Propleopus chillagoensis , a new north Queensland species of extinct giant rat-kangaroo (Macropodidae: Potoroinae).  Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict.  39: 55-60.
  38. Archer, M., Plane, M.D., Pledge, N.S., 1978.  Additional evidence for interpreting the Miocene Obdurodon insignis  Woodburne and Tedford, 1975 to be a fossil platypus (Ornithorhynchidae: Monotremata) and a reconsideration of the status of Ornithorhynchus agilis  De Vis, 1885.  Aust. Zool.  20: 9-19.
  39. Rich, T.H., Archer, M., Tedford, R.H., 1978.  Raemeotherium yatkolai , gen. et sp. nov., a primitive diprotodontid from the medial Miocene of South Australia.  Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict.  39: 85-91.
  40. Archer, M., 1979.  The status of Australian dasyurids, thylacinids and myrmecobiids.  Pp. 29-43 in  "The status of endangered Australian wildlife" ed M.J. Tyler.  Zoological Society of South Australia: Adelaide.
  41. Archer, M., 1979.  Two new species of Sminthopsis  Thomas (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia) from northern Australia, S. butleri  and S. douglasiAust. Zool.  20: 237-45.
  42. Archer, M., 1979.  Wabularoo naughtoni  gen. et sp. nov., an enigmatic kangaroo (Marsupialia) from the middle Tertiary Carl Creek Limestone of northwestern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus.  19: 299-307.
  43. Archer, M., Rich, T.H., 1979.  Wakamatha tasselli  gen. et sp. nov., a fossil dasyurid (Marsupialia) from South Australia convergent on modern SminthopsisMem. Qd Mus.  19: 309-17.
  44. Rich, T.H., Archer, M., 1979.  Namilamadeta snideri , a new diprotodontan (Marsupialia, Vombatoidea) from the medial Miocene of South Australia.  Alcheringa  3: 197-208.
  45. Archer, M., Crawford, J.M., Merrilees, D., 1980.  Incisions, breakages and charring, some probably man-made, in fossil bones from Mammoth Cave, Western Australia.  Alcheringa  4: 115-31.
  46. Archer, M., 1981.  A review of the origins and radiations of Australian mammals.  Pp. 1437-88 in  "Ecological biogeography of Australia" ed by A. Keast.  Junk: The Hague.
  47. Archer, M., 1981.  Results of the Archbold Expeditions.  No. 104.  Systematic revision of the marsupial dasyurid genus Sminthopsis  Thomas.  Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat Hist.  168: 61-224.
  48. Archer, M., 1982.  A review of Miocene thylacinids (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia), the phylogenetic position of the Thylacinidae and the problem of apriorisms in character analysis.  Pp. 445-76 in  "Carnivorous marsupials" ed by M. Archer.  The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  49. Archer, M., 1982.  A review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification.  Pp. 397-443 in 'Carnivorous marsupials', ed M. Archer. Surrey Beatty and Sons and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  50. Archer, M., 1982.  Antechinus apicalis  (Grey, 1842).  Pp. 75-77 in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  51. Archer, M., 1982.  Genesis: and in the beginning there was an incredible carnivorous mother.  Pp. vii-x in  "Carnivorous marsupials" ed by M. Archer.  The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  52. Archer, M., 1982.  Myrmecobius fasciatus  Waterhouse, 1836.  Pp. 87-89 in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  53. Archer, M., 1982.  Phascogale calura  Gould, 1844.  Pp. 79-80 in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  54. Archer, M., 1982.  Sminthopsis douglasi  Archer, 1979.  Pp. 85 in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  55. Archer, M., 1982.  Sminthopsis longicaudata  Spencer, 1909.  Pp. 81-81 in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  56. Archer, M., 1982.  Sminthopsis psammophila  Spencer, 1895.  Pp. 83-84 in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  57. Archer, M., 1982.  Thylacinus cynocephalus  (Harris, 1808).  Pp. 91-93  in  "The red data book".  I.U.C.N.: Switzerland.
  58. Archer, M., Dawson, L., 1982.  Revision of marsupial lions of the genus Thylacoleo Gervais (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia) and thylacoleonid evolution in the late Cainozoic.  Pp. 477-94 in 'Carnivorous marsupials', ed M. Archer. Surrey Beatty and Sons and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  59. Archer, M., Rich, T.H., 1982.  Results of the Ray E. Lemley Expeditions.  Wakaleo alcootaensis  n. sp. (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia), a new marsupial lion from the Miocene of the Northern Territory with a consideration of early radiation in the family.  Pp. 495-502 in  "Carnivorous marsupials" ed M. Archer. The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  60. Baverstock, P.R., Archer, M., Adams, M., Richardson, B.J., 1982.  Genetic relationships among 32 species of Australian dasyurid marsupials.  Pp. 641-50 in  "Carnivorous marsupials" ed M. Archer. The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  61. Flannery, T., Archer, M., 1982.  The taxonomy and distribution of Macropus (Fissuridon) pearsoni  (Marsupialia: Macropodidae).  Aust. Mammal.  5: 261-65.
  62. Kirsch, J.A.W., Archer, M., 1982.  Polythetic cladistics, or, when parsimony's not enough: the relationships of carnivorous marsupials.  Pp. 595-619 in  "Carnivorous marsupials" ed M. Archer. The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  63. McKenzie, N.L., Archer, M., 1982.  Sminthopsis youngsoni  (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) the Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart, a new species from arid Australia.  Aust. Mammal.  5: 267-79.
  64. Rich, T.H., Archer, M., Plane, M.D., Flannery, T.F., Pledge, N.S., Hand, S.J., Rich, P.V., 1982.  Australian Tertiary mammal localities.  Pp. 526-72 in  "The fossil vertebrate record of Australia" ed P.V. Rich, B. Thompson.  Monash University Offset Printing Unit: Melbourne.
  65. Sigé, B., Hand, S.J., Archer, M., 1982.  An Australian Miocene Brachipposideros (Mammalia, Chiroptera) related to Miocene representatives from France.  Palaeovertebrata 12: 149-72
  66. Archer, M., 1983.  Carpentarian Dunnart Sminthopsis butleri.  P. 69 in  "The Australian Museum complete book of Australian mammals" ed R. Strahan.  Angus & Robertson and the Australian Museum: Sydney.
  67. Archer, M., 1983.  Julia Creek Dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi.  P. 68 in  "The Australian Museum complete book of Australian mammals" ed R. Strahan.  Angus & Robertson and the Australian Museum: Sydney.
  68. Baverstock, P., Adams, M., Archer, M., McKenzie, N.L., How, R., 1983.  An electrophoretic and chromosomal study of the dasyurid marsupial genus Ningaui  Archer.  Aust. J. Zool.  31: 281-92.
  69. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1983.  Revision of the genus Troposodon  Bartholomai (Macropodidae: Marsupialia).  Alcheringa  7: 263-79.
  70. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Plane, M.D., 1983.  Middle Miocene kangaroos (Macropodoidea: Marsupialia) from three localities in northern Australia, with a description of two new subfamilies.  B.M.R.J. Aust. Geol., Geophys.  7: 287-302.
  71. Archer, M., 1984.  Doubts on Thylacine.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 21: 263. 
  72. Archer, M., 1984.  Introduction.  Pp. xi-xxiv in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  73. Archer, M., 1984. Earth-shattering concepts for historical zoogeography.  Pp. 45-108 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  74. Archer, M., 1984. Effects of humans on the Australian vertebrate fauna.  Pp. 151-61 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  75. Archer, M., 1984. On the importance of being a koala.  Pp. 809-15  in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  76. Archer, M., 1984. Origins and early radiations of mammals.  Pp. 477-515 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  77. Archer, M., 1984. Origins and early radiations of marsupials.  Pp. 585-625 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  78. Archer, M., 1984. Systematics: an enormous science rooted in instinct.  Pp. 125-50 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  79. Archer, M., 1984. The Australian marsupial radiation.  Pp. 633-808 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  80. Archer, M., 1984. The origins and early radiations of vertebrates.  Pp. 163-84 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  81. Archer, M., Aplin, K., 1984.  Humans among primates: stark naked in a crowd.  Pp. 949-93 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  82. Archer, M., Clayton, G., Hand, S.J., 1984.  A checklist of Australasian fossil mammals.  Pp. 1027-87 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  83. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1984. Background to the search for Australia's oldest mammals.  Pp. 517-65in  “Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia”, ed by M. Archer and G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  84. Archer, M., Molnar, R., 1984.  Origins and early radiations of reptiles.  Pp. 311-29 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  85. Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M., Archer, M., 1984.  Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in the Sminthopsis murina  Complex (Dasyuridae).  Aust. J. Zool. 32: 823-32.
  86. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1984.  The macropodoids (Marsupialia) of the Early Pliocene Bow Local Fauna, central Eastern New South Wales.  Aust. Zool.  21: 357-83.
  87. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Plane, M.D., 1984.  Phylogenetic relationships and a reconsideration of higher level systematics within the Potoroidae (Marsupialia).  J. Paleo.  58: 1087-97.
  88. Fox, B., Archer, M., 1984.  Background to vertebrate zoogeography in Australia.  Pp. 1-15 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  89. Molnar, R., Archer, M., 1984.  Feeble and not so feeble flapping fliers: a consideration of early bird and bird-like reptiles.  Pp. 408-19 in "Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia" ed M. Archer, G. Clayton.  Hesperian Press: Perth.
  90. Archer, M., Flannery, T. F., 1985.  Revision of the extinct gigantic rat kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with description of a new Miocene genus and species and a new Pleistocene species of PropleopusJ. Palaeont59: 1331-49.
  91. Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., Ritchie, A., Molnar, R.E., 1985.  First Mesozoic mammal from Australia--an early Cretaceous monotreme.  Nature 318: 363-66.
  92. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1985.  Palorchestes azael  and Palorchestes parvus.  Pp. 234-39 in "Kadimakara: extinct vertebrates of Australia" ed P.V. Rich & G.F. van Tets.  Pioneer Design Studio: Melbourne.
  93. Woodburne, M.O.,  Tedford, R.H., Archer, M., Turnbull, W.D., Plane, M., Lundelius, E.L., Jr, 1985.  Biochronology of the continental mammal record of Australia and New Guinea.  S. Aust. Dept Mines and Energy Spec. Publ. 5: 347-65.
  94. Lester, K.S., Archer, M., 1986.  A description of the molar enamel of a Middle Miocene monotreme (Obdurodon , Ornithorhynchidae).  Anat. Embryol.  174: 145-51.
  95. Aplin, K., Archer, M., 1987.  Recent advances in marsupial systematics with a new syncretic classification.  Pp. xv-lxxii in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  96. Archer, M., 1987.  Introduction.  Pp. vix-xii in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  97. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1987.  Evolutionary considerations.  Pp. 79-106 in  "The Koala: Australia's endearing marsupial" ed L. Cronin.  Reed Books Pty Ltd: Sydney.
  98. Archer, M., Tedford, R.H., Rich, T.H., 1987.  The Pilkipildridae, a new family and four new species of ?petauroid possums (Marsupialia: Phalangerida) from the Australian Miocene.  Pp. 607-27 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  99. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1987.  Bettongia moyesi, a new and plesiomorphic kangaroo (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) from Miocene sediments of northwestern Queensland.  Pp. 759-67 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  100. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1987.  Hypsiprymnodon bartholomaii  (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), a new species from the Miocene Dwornamor Local Fauna and a reassessment of the phylogenetic position of H. moschatus .  Pp. 749-58 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  101. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1987.  Strigocuscus reidi  and Trichosurus dicksoni, two new fossil phalangerids (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) from the Miocene of northwestern Queensland.  Pp. 527-36 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  102. Archer, M., 1987.  Evidence for evolution from the fossil record.  Pp. 72-102 in  "Confronting creationism: defending Darwin" ed D.R. Selkirk & F.J. Burrows.  University of New South Wales Press: Sydney.
  103. Archer, M., 1987.  "Thingodonta": last remnant of an ancient group.  Pp. 56-58 in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  104. Archer, M., 1987.  36 common creationist statements: a pot-pourri of nonsense.  Pp. 18-61 in  "'Creation Science', science and education" ed V. Bien.  New South Wales Humanist Society: Sydney.
  105. Archer, M., 1987.  A possum of a very different kind.  Pp. 67-69 in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  106. Archer, M., 1987.  Evolution as science: one aspect of a very large universe.  Pp. 27-40 in  "Confronting creationism: defending Darwin" ed D.R. Selkirk & F.J. Burrows.  University of New South Wales Press: Sydney.
  107. Archer, M., 1987.  New thoughts about old classifications. P. 84  in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  108. Archer, M., 1987.  Riversleigh scene 1: crossing the threshold of eternity.  Pp 74-76 in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  109. Archer, M., 1987.  Riversleigh scene 2: weird and familiar creatures in the forest primeval. Pp 77-79 in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  110. Archer, M., 1987.  Squaring off against evolution: the Creationist challenge.  Pp. 103-44  in  "Confronting creationism: defending Darwin" ed D.R. Selkirk & F.J. Burrows.  University of New South Wales Press: Sydney.
  111. Archer, M., 1987.  The reality of organic evolution: evidence from the living.  Pp. 14-26 in  "Confronting creationism: defending Darwin" ed D.R. Selkirk & F.J. Burrows.  University of New South Wales Press: Sydney. 
  112. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1987.  Introduction.  Pp. 1-11; Riversleigh scene 3: a fine time for possums and bats.  Pp. 79-81 in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  113. Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Maynes, G., 1987.  The phylogenetic relationships of living phalangerids (Phalangeroidea: Marsupialia) with a suggested new taxonomy.  Pp. 477-506 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  114. Hughes, R.L., Hall, L.S., Aplin, K.P., Archer, M., 1987.  Organogenesis and fetal membranes in the New Guinea Pen-tailed Possum, Distoechurus pennatus  (Acrobatidae: Marsupialia).  Pp. 715-24 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  115. Lester, K.S., Boyde, A., Gilkeson, C., Archer, M., 1987.  Marsupial and monotreme enamel structure.  Scanning Microscopy  1: 401-20.
  116. Woodburne, M.O., Pledge, N.S., Archer, M., 1987.  The Miralinidae, a new family and two new species of phalangeroid marsupials from Miocene strata of South Australia.  Pp. 581-602 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  117. Woodburne, M.O., Tedford, R.H., Archer, M., 1987.  New Miocene ringtail possums (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae) from South Australia.  Pp. 639-79 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  118. Woodburne, M.O., Tedford, R.H., Archer, M., Pledge, N.S., 1987.  Madakoala , a new genus and two species of Miocene koalas (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from South Australia, and a new species of Perikoala.  Pp. 293-317 in "Possums and opossums: studies in evolution" ed M. Archer.  Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  119. Archer, M., 1988. Mammal evolution: an illustrated guide.  [Book review of Savage & Long book by same title, 1986; British Museum (Natural History): London] Riversleigh Notes 1: 8.
  120. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1988.  A new order of Tertiary zalambdodont marsupials.  Science  239: 1528-31.
  121. Archer, M., 1988.  The significance of recent palaeontological discoveries at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.  In  "Rotary District 967 Bicentennial Summer Science School" published by The University of Newcastle: Newcastle.
  122. Lester, K.S., Archer, M., Gilkeson, C.F., Rich, T., 1988.  Enamel of Yalkaparidon coheni :  representative of a distinctive order of Tertiary zalambdodont marsupials.  Scanning Microscopy  2: 1491-1501.
  123. Archer, M., 1989.  Emendations to the nomenclature of recently established palaeontological taxa.  Aust. Zool. 25: 67.
  124. Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Megirian, D., 1989.  Preliminary overview of mammalian diversity, biostratigraphy, correlation and environmental change evidenced by the fossil deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia.  Aust. Zool. 25: 29-64.
  125. Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Megirian, D., 1989.  The jewels of the north: preliminary hypotheses about the nature, age, and correlation of Riversleigh's fossil-bearing sediments.  Riversleigh Notes 6: 4-7.
  126. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1989.  Ghosts from green gardens: preliminary hypotheses about changes in Australia's rainforest mammals through time based on evidence from Riversleigh.  Riversleigh Notes 7: 4-7.
  127. Gaffney, E.S., Archer, M., White, A., 1989.  Chelid turtles from the Miocene freshwater limestones of Riversleigh Station, northwestern Queensland, Australia.  Amer. Mus. Novitates 2959: 1-10.
  128. Kirsch, J.A.W., Krajewski, C., Springer, M.S., Archer, M., 1989.  DNA/DNA hybridization studies of marsupials  II.  Relationships among dasyurids.  Aust. J. Zool. 38: 673-96.
  129. Rich, T.H., Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., 1989.  A second Cretaceous mammalian specimen from Lightning Ridge, N.S.W., Australia.  Alcheringa 13: 85-88.
  130. Archer, M., 1990.  Why are Australia’s animals so distinctive?  Pp. 32-40 in “The Australian environment: taking stock looking ahead” ed S. Neville.  Australian Conservation Foundation: Victoria.
  131. Archer, M., Every, R.G., Godthelp, H., Hand, S., Scally, K., 1990.  Yingabalanaridae, a new family of enigmatic mammals from Tertiary deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus. 28: 193-202.
  132. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1990.  Australian fossil hipposiderids: new evidence about the evolutionary history and radiation of Old World leaf-nosed bats. Macroderma  5: 12.
  133. Kirsch, J.A.W., Springer, M., Krajewski, C., Archer, M., Aplin, K., Dickerman, A.W., 1990.  DNA/DNA hybridization studies of carnivorous marsupials.  I.  The intergeneric relationships of bandicoots (Marsupialia: Perameloidea).  J. Molecular Evolution 30: 434-48.
  134. Muirhead, J., Archer, M., 1990.  Nimbacinus dicksoni, a plesiomorphic thylacine (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Tertiary deposits of Queensland and the Northern Territory.  Mem. Qd Mus. 28: 203-21.
  135. Willis, P.M.A., Archer, M., 1990.  A Pleistocene longirostrine crocodilian from Riversleigh: first fossil occurrence of Crocodylus johnsoni Krefft.  Mem. Qd Mus. 28: 159-64.
  136. Rich, T.H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Muirhead, J., Pledge, N.S., Flannery, T.F., Woodburne, M.O., Case, J.A., Tedford, R., Turnbull, W.D., Lundelius Jr, E.L., Rich, L.S.V., Whitelaw, M.J., Kemp, A., Rich, P.V., 1991.  Appendix 1 [to Rich 1991] Australian Mesozoic and Tertiary terrestrial mammal localities.  Pp. 1005-1058 in Vickers-Rich, Monaghan, Baird & Rich (1991).
  137. Scally, K.B., Knox, G.A., Archer, M., 1991. Bruxism. Australian Dental Journal 36: 406.
  138. Archer, M., 1992.  Ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia) from the Tertiary deposits of Riversleigh.  The Beagle 9: 257.
  139. Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1992.  Wombat-like marsupials from the Oligo-Miocene faunal assemblages of Riversleigh.  The Beagle 9: 256.
  140. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1992.  Back to the future: the contribution of palaeontology to the conservation of Australian forest faunas.  Pp. 67-80 in 'Conservation of Australia's forest fauna' ed. D. Lunney.  Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  141. Archer, M., Jenkins Jr, F.A., Hand, S.J., Murray, P., Godthelp, H., 1992.  Description of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins.  Pp. 15-27 in “Platypus and echidnas” ed M.L. Augee.  Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  142. Gaffney, E.S., Archer, M., White, A., 1992.  Warkalania, a new meiolaniid turtle from the Tertiary Riversleigh deposits of Queensland.  The Beagle 9: 35-47.
  143. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Cifelli, R., Hand, S.J., Gilkeson, C.F., 1992.  Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna.  Nature 356: 514-16.
  144. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Sutherland, L., 1992.  The Tingamarra Local Fauna, early Tertiary vertebrates from southeastern Queensland.  The Beagle 9: 268.
  145. Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Novacek, M.J., Archer, M., 1992.  An early Tertiary bat from the Tingamarra Local Fauna of southeastern Queensland.  The Beagle 9: 257.
  146. 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.
  147. Pascual, R., Archer, M., Ortiz Jaureguizar, E., Prado, J.L., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., 1992.  The first non-Australian monotreme: an early Paleocene South American platypus (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae).  Pp. 1-14 in 'Platypus and echidnas' ed M.L. Augee.  Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  148. Rich, T.H., Rich, P.V., Wagstaff, B.E., McEwen Mason, J.R.C., Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Molnar, R.E., Long, J.A., 1992.  Two possible chronological anomalies in the Early Cretaceous tetrapod assemblages of southeastern Australia.  Pp. 165-75 in "Aspects of nonmarine Cretaceous geology" ed N.J. Mateer, C. Pei-Ji.  China Ocean Press: Beijing. 
  149. Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., 1993.  Early Eocene marsupial from Australia.  Pp. 193-200 in 'Kaupia: Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte.  Monument Grube Messel--perspectives and relationships, Part 2' ed F. Schrenk, K. Ernest.  Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt: Darmstadt.
  150. Archer, M., Murray, P., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1993.  Reconsideration of monotreme relationships based on the skull and dentition of the Miocene Obdurodon dicksoni.  Pp. 75-94 in 'Mammal phylogeny: Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians, and marsupials' ed F.S. Szalay, M.J. Novacek, M.C. McKenna.  Springer-Verlag: New York.
  151. Government of Australia, 1993 [Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Wells, R.].  Nomination of Australian fossil sites: the origin and evolution of Australia's mammals.  Australian Government: Canberra.  57 pp plus appendices.  Australian Government submission for inscription of Murgon, Riversleigh and Naracoorte on the World Heritage List.
  152. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Rich, T.H., Pledge, N.S., 1993.  Nimbadon, a new genus and three new species of Tertiary zygomaturines (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae) from northern Australia, with a reassessment of NeohelosMem. Qd Mus. 33: 193-210.
  153. White, A., Archer, M., 1993.  A new Pleistocene turtle from fluviatile deposits at Riversleigh.  Riversleigh Notes 20: 8.
  154. Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Muirhead, J., Nock, C., Augee, M., 1994.  In pursuit of the peregrinating Patagonian platypus. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 27: 217.
  155. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1994.  Patterns in the history of Australia’s mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats.  Pp. 80-103 in 'History of the Australian vegetation' ed. R. Hill.  Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
  156. Boles, W.E., Godthelp, H., Hand, S., Archer, M., 1994.  Earliest Australian non-marine bird assemblages from the early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, southeastern Queensland.  Alcheringa 18: 70.
  157. Hand, S.J., Novacek, M., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., 1994.  First Eocene bat from Australia.  J. Vert. Paleo. 14: 375-81.
  158. Archer, M., 1994.  Marsupials: restoring dignity to the pouch. Natural History (American Museum of Natural History) 103(4): 48-49.
  159. Archer, M., 1994.  Monotremes:  mammals 'eggstraordinaire'. Natural History (American Museum of Natural History) 103(4): 44-47.
  160. Mackness, B., Archer, M., Muirhead, J., 1994.  An enigmatic family of marsupials from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland. Records of the SouthAustralianMuseum27: 223.
  161. Tyler, M.J., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., 1994.  Frogs from a Plio-Pleistocene site at Floraville Station, northwest Queensland. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 27: 169-73.
  162. White, A.W., Archer, M., 1994.  Emydura lavarackorum, a new Pleistocene turtle (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from fluviatile deposits at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Rec. S. Aust. Mus.  27: 159-67.
  163. 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.
  164. 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.
  165. Wroe, S., Archer, M., 1995.  Extraordinary diphyodonty-related change in dental function for a tooth of the extinct marsupial Ekaltadeta ima (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae). Archs oral Biol. 40: 597-603.
  166. 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.
  167. 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.
  168. Archer, M., 1997. Preface [to ‘Riversleigh issue’]. Mem. Qd Mus. 44: 169.
  169. Archer, M., 1997. Vertebrate palaeontology, School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Nomen Nudum 25: 35-44.
  170. Archer, M., Black, K, Nettle, K., 1997. Giant ringtail possums (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae) and giant koalas (Phascolarctidae) from the late Cainozoic of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales117: 3-15.
  171. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1997. Unrolling the prehistoric scrolls of prophecy--roos and rocks rule. Landcare Australia Yearbook 1997, 12-15.
  172. Archer, M., 1997. How animals evolved, Healey, J (ed), Encyclopedia of Australian wildlife, Sydney, Reader’s Digest, 20-31, 1997, ISBN 0 86449 118 2, D.
  173. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1997. 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.
  174. 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.
  175. Black, K., Archer, M., 1997.  Silvabestius gen. nov., a primitive zygomaturine (Marsupialia, Diprotodontidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 193-208.
  176. Black, K., Archer, M., 1997. Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala. Mem. Qd Mus., 41: 209-228.
  177. Black, K., Archer, M., 1997. Silvabestius gen. nov., primitive zygomaturines (Marsupialia, Diprotodontidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 193-208.
  178. Brammall, J., Archer, M., 1997.  A Oligo-Miocene species of Burramys (Marsupialia, Burramyidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 247-68.
  179. Davis, A., Archer, M., 1997. Palorchestes azael (Mammalia, Palorchestidae) from the late Pleistocene Terrace Site Local Fauna, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 315-20.
  180. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1997. First record of Hydromops (Microchiroptera: Molossidae) from Australia. Pp. 153-162 in  “Actes du Congrès BiochroM’97” ed by J.-P. Aguilar, S. Legendre, J. Michaux. École Pratique des Hautes Études Institut de Montpellier, France.
  181. Lunney, D., Pressey, B., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Curtin, A., 1997. Integrating ecology and economics: illustrating the need to resolve conflicts of space and time. Ecological Economics 23: 135-143.
  182. Muirhead, J., Dawson, L., Archer, M., 1997. Perameles bowensis, a new species of Perameles (Peramelemorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington Caves. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 117: 163-173.
  183. Myers T.J., Archer, M., 1997.  Kuterintja ngama (Marsupialia, Ilariidae): a revised systematic analysis based on material from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.  Mem. Qd Mus. 41: 379-92.
  184. 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.
  185. Hand, S.J., Murray, P., Megirian, D., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1998. Mystacinid bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary.  J. Paleo. 72: 538-545.
  186. 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.
  187. 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.
  188. 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.
  189. Bassarova, M., Archer, M., 1999. Living and extinct pseudocheirids (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae): phylogenetic relationships and changes in diversity through time. Australian Mammalogy 21: 25-27.
  190. Brammall, J., Archer, M., 1999. Living and extinct petaurids, acrobatids, tarsipedids and burramyids (Marsupialia): relationships and diversity through time.  Australian Mammalogy, 21: 24-25.
  191. Crosby, K., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Pledge, N.  1999.  Diversity and evolution of phalangerid, ektopodontid, miralinid and pilkipildrid marsupials. Australian Mammalogy 21: 22-23.
  192. 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.
  193. 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.
  194. 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.
  195. Crosby, K., Archer, M.  2000. Durudawirines, a new group of phalangeroid marsupials from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.  Journal of Paleontology 74: 327-335.
  196. McGowran, B., Archer, M., Bock, P., Darragh, T.A., Godthelp, H., Hageman, S., Hand, S.J., Hill, R., Li, Q., Maxwell, P.A., McNamara, K.J., Macphail, M., Mildenhall, D., Partridge, A.D., Richardson, J., Shafik, S., Truswell, E.M., Warne, M., 2000. Australasian palaeobiogeogrpahy: the Palaeogene and Neogene record. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 23: 405-470.
  197. Murray, P., Megirian, D., Rich, T., Plane, M., Black, K., Archer, M., Hand, S., Vickers-Rich, P., 2000. Morphology, systematics and evolution of the marsupial genus Neohelos Stirton (Diprotodontidae, Zygomaturinae). Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Research Report No. 6: 1-141.
  198. Archer, M., 2001. Foreword. Pp. v-vi in A field guide to the mammals of Australia by P. Menkhorst, F. Knight. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  199. Bassarova, M., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 2001. New species of ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia) referable to the Oligo-Miocene genus Paljara from deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage property, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:61-75.
  200. Crosby, K., Nagy, M., Archer M., 2001. Wyulda asherjoeli, a new phalangerid (Diprotodontia: Marsupialia) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:77-82.
  201. Hand, S., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 2001. New Miocene Icarops material (Microchiroptera, Mystacinidae) from Australia, with a revised diagnosis of the genus. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25: 139-146.
  202. Kear, B. P., Archer, M., Flannery, T. F., 2001. Postcranial morphology of Ganguroo bilamina, Cooke 1997 (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the middle Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:123-138.
  203. Kear, B. P., Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., 2001. Bulungamayine (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) postcranial elements from the late Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:103-122.
  204. McLean, D., Robinson, J., Archer, M., 2001. Artefact reduction on CT images of fossils to allow 3D visualization. Radiation Physics and Chemistry 61: 723-724.
  205. Myers, T. J., Crosby, K., Archer, M., Tyler, M., 2001. The Encore Local Fauna, a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:147-154.
  206. Archer, M., 2002. New ways of valuing wildlife are essential. Ecopolitics 1(3): 16-18.
  207. Archer, M., 2002. Confronting crises in conservation: a talk on the wild side. Pp. 12-52 in ‘A zoological revolution: using native fauna to assist in its own survival’, ed. D. Lunney & C. Dickman. Australian Museum and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  208. Mackness, B.S., Archer, M., 2002. Pseudochirops winteri n. sp., a new petauroid possum from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northern Queensland.  Alcheringa 25: 439-444.
  209. Scanlon, J.D., Lee, M.S.Y., Archer, M. 2003.  Mid-tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation.  Geobios 36: 573-601.
  210. Archer, M., 2003. Cloning the Thylacine: the “yes” case. 40o South Tasmania 28: 19-20.
  211. Turnbull, W.D., Lundelius Jr, E.L., Archer, M., 2003. Dasyurids, perameloids, phalangeroids, and vombatoids from the early Pliocene Hamilton Fauna, Victoria, Australia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: 513- 540.
  212. Crosby, K., Bassarova, M., Archer, M., Carbery, K. 2004. Fossil possums in Australasia: discovery, diversity and evolution. Pp. 161-76 in The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders, Goldingay, R.L., Jackson, S.M. (eds). Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton.
  213. McKenzie, K. G., Engelbretsen, M., Archer, M., Price, E., 2004. Ostracoda from the Miocene Riversleigh World Heritage fossil deposits, Queensland, including Progomphocythere n.gen., with discussion of palaeoenvironments and age. Bollettino of the Italian Palaeontological Society 43:321-330.
  214. Archer, M, Serjeanston S, Smith, B, Carnemolla, P. 2005. Intelligent Design is not science. The Queensland Science Teacher 31(4): 52.
  215. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H. 2005.  Australian Oligo-Miocene mystacinids (Microchiroptera): upper dentition, new taxa and divergence of New Zealand species. Geobios 38: 339-352.
  216. Hand, S.J., Archer, M. 2005. A new hipposiderid genus (Microchiroptera) from an early Miocene bat community in Australia. Palaeontology 48: 1-13.
  217. Archer, M., Arena, D. A., Bassarova, M., Beck, R., Black, K., Boles, W. E., Brewer, P., Cooke, B. N., Crosby, K.,  Gillespie, A., Godthelp, H.,  Hand, S.J., Kear, B., Louys, J., Morrell, A.,  Muirhead, J., Roberts, K. K., Scanlon, J. D., Travouillon, K. J., Wroe, S., 2006. M. Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa special issue 1: 1-17.
  218. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 2006. The Australian marsupial radiation. Pp. 575-646 in Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates, Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G., Lee, M. (eds). AusSci Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney.
  219. Travouillon, K.J., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 2006. Multivariate analyses of Cenozoic mammalian faunas from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa special issue 1: 323-349.
  220. Archer, M., Kirsch, J.A.W., 2006.  The evolution and classification of marsupials. Pp. 1-21 in ‘Marsupials’ ed. Armati, P.J., Dickman, C.R., Hume, I.D. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  221. Macrini, T. E., Rowe, T., Archer, M. 2006. Description of a cranial endocast from a fossil platypus, Obdurodon dicksoni (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), and the relevance of endocranial characters to monotreme monophyly. Journal of Morphology 267:1000-1015.
  222. Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.D., Archer, M., Musser, A.M., Hand, S.J., Jones, C., Douglas, B.J., McNamara, J.A., Beck, R.M.D. 2006. Miocene Mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 19219-19223.
  223. Wroe, S., Archer, M., 2006. Origins and early radiations of marsupials. Pp. 551-574 in Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates, Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G., Lee, M. (eds). AusSci Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney.
  224. Travouillon, K.J., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 2006. Multivariate analyses of Cenozoic mammalian faunas from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa special issue no. 1: 323-349.
  225. Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G., Lee, M., 2007. Perspectives.  In Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G., Lee, M. (eds). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd: Sydney.
  226. Roberts, K.K., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2007. A new genus and species of extinct Miocene ringtail possums (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae). American Museum Novitates 3560:1-16.
  227. Archer, M., Beale, B., 2007. From rarity to abundance: a consequence of value. Pp. 226-228 in ‘Pest or Guest: the Zoology of Overabundance’ ed. D. Lunney, P. Eby, P. Hutchings, S. Burgin. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.
  228. Wroe, S., Archer, M. (publications details unknown; accepted for publication Feb, 2002). Riversleigh and beyond. Gondwana Alive ed. by John Anderson.
  229. Travouillon, K.J., Legendre, S., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 2007. Finding the Minimum Sample Richness (MSR) for multivariate analyses: implications for palaeoecology. Historical Biology 19: 315-320.
  230. Brewer. P.A., Archer, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H., 2007. A new species of the wombat Warendja from late Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, north-west Queensland, Australia. Palaeontology 50: 811-828.
  231. Archer, M., 2007. Origins, pp. 20-23 in The Mammals of Australia ed. S. Van Dyck, R. Strahan. Reed New Holland: Sydney.
  232. Louys, J., Black, K., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 2007. Descriptions of koala material from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland and implications for Litokoala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae).  Alcheringa 31: 99-110.
  233. Kear, B.P., Cooke, B.N., Archer, M., Flannery, T.F. 2007. Implications of a new species of the Oligo-Miocene kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) Nambaroo, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Paleontology 81:1147-1167.
  234. Weisbecker, V., Archer, M. 2008. Anatomical diversity, functional implications and extensive parallelism in the manus of extinct and extant vombatiform marsupials. Palaeontology 51: 321–338
  235. Beck R.M.D., Godthelp H., Weisbecker V., Archer M., Hand S.J. 2008. Australia’s oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications. PLoSONE 3: e1858. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001858
  236. Beck, R.M.D., Mackness, B., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Muirhead, J. 2008. A bizarre marsupial family from the Pliocene of northeastern Australia: implications for the evolution and phylogeny of bunodont marsupials. Journal of Paleontology 82: 749-762.
  237. Bassarova, M., Janis, C., Archer, M. 2008. The calcaneum - on the heels of marsupial locomotion. Journal of Mammalian Evolution doi 10.1007/s10914-008-9093-7.
  238. Brewer, P. Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2008. Additional specimens of the oldest wombat Rhizophascolonus crowcrofti (Vombatidae; Marsupialia) from the Wipajiri Formation, South Australia: an intermediate morphology? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 1144-48.
  239. Roberts, K.K., Bassarova, M., Archer, M. 2008. Oligo-Miocene ringtail possums of the genus Paljara (Pseudocheiridae: Marsupialia) from Queensland, Australia. Geobios 41: 441-56.
  240. Roberts, K.K., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J. 2009. New Oligo-Miocene species of Marlu (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia) with a revision of the genus. Palaeontology 52: 441-456.
  241. Travouillon, K.J., Legendre, S., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2009. Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh’s Oligo-Miocene deposits: implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 276: 24-37.
  242. Hand, S.J., Weisbecker, V., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, T.H. 2009. Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand’s endemic mystacinids. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 169.
  243. Lee, M.S.Y., Hutchinson, M.N., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P. 2009. Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0440.
  244. Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Nguyen, J.M.T., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P., Boles, W.E., Archer, M. 2010. Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an Early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 479-498.
  245. Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Archer, M., Scofield, R.P., 2010. First record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 62: 77-88.
  246. Sigé, B., Archer, M., Crochet, J.-Y., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Beck, R.M.D., 2009. Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials. Geobios 42: 813-823.
  247. Louys, J., Aplin, K., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M. 2009. Cranial anatomy of Oligo-Miocene koalas (Diprotodontia: Phascolarctidae): stages in the evolution of an extreme leaf-eating specialization. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 981-992.
  248. Black, K., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 2010. First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial—from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 993-1011. 

3. Non-technical publications

All articles published in Nature Australia, Australian Natural History and Australian Geographic were refereed and hence are C1 publications.

  1. Archer, M., 1982.  A lion in possum's clothing.  Aust. Nat. Hist.  20: 373-79.
  2. Archer, M., 1982.  Monkeying with the theory of evolution.  Aust. Nat. Hist.  20: 365-72.
  3. Archer, M., 1983.  "Scientific Creationism"--an unnatural history of gobbledegook.  Aust. Nat. Hist.  21: 8.
  4. Archer, M., 1985.  A year of beneficial change and achievement.  Aust. Zool.  22: 9-11.
  5. Archer, M., 1987.  A wolf in kangaroo's clothing.  Pp. 70-72 in  "The Antipodean ark" ed S. Hand, M. Archer.  Angus & Robertson Publishers: Sydney.
  6. Archer, M., 1987.  Creationism: no place in the science class.  Aust. Nat. Hist.  22: 160-64.
  7. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1987.  Comparing ancient faunas.  Riversleigh Notes  2: 6.
  8. Archer, M., 1988.  A dying need for wild places?  Aust. Nat. Hist.  22: 394-95.
  9. Archer, M., 1988.  Our oral arsenal: a natural legacy of primate aggression.  Aust. Nat. Hist.  22: 474-75.
  10. Archer, M., 1988.  Riversleigh: 1988 and beyond.  Riversleigh Notes  3: 2-3.
  11. Archer, M., 1988.  Riversleigh: window into our ancient past.  Aust. Geographic  9: 40-57.
  12. Archer, M., 1988.  The logo of the Riversleigh Society.  Riversleigh Notes  3: 5.
  13. Archer, M., 1989.  The four-dimensional 'bioblob' called life.  Aust. Nat. Hist.  22: 512-13.
  14. Archer, M., 1989.  Slime monsters will be human too.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 22: 546-47.
  15. Archer, M., 1989.  Gods, Gaia & the wound of heaven.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 23: 80-81.
  16. Archer, M., 1989.  The science of being wrong.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 23: 170-71.
  17. Archer, M., 1989.  Human evolution.  Pp. 93-99 in “Geology 25.120: a first year laboratory manual”.  University of New South Wales School of Applied Geology: Sydney.
  18. Archer, M., 1989.  The early evolution of reptiles.  Pp. 88-92 in “Geology 25.120: a first year laboratory manual”.  University of New South Wales School of Applied Geology: Sydney.
  19. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1989.  Future directions for Riversleigh Project: eighteen objectives for field and laboratory-based research.  Riversleigh Notes: 8: 4-6.
  20. Archer, M., 1990.  As long as life’s hat has rabbits.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 23: 254-55.
  21. Archer, M., 1990.  The muddled molar mystery of Riversleigh.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 23: 334-35.
  22. Archer, M., 1990.  Pain in the neck of creation: the provocatively flawed human.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 23: 414-15.
  23. Archer, M., 1990.  Coming to grips with male nipples,  Aust. Nat. Hist. 23: 494-95.
  24. Archer, M., Muirhead, J., 1990.  Sinking one’s teeth into odontology.  Riversleigh Notes: 9: 4-6.
  25. Archer, M., 1991.  Tharalkoo’s child: an ugly duckling story. Aust. Nat. Hist. 23 [7]: 574-575.
  26. Archer, M., 1991.  Life’s scroll of prophecy: conservation & the fossil record. Aust. Nat. Hist. 23 [8]: 654-655.
  27. Archer, M., 1991.  The links that bind. Aust. Nat. Hist. 23 [9]: 734-735.
  28. Archer, M., 1991.  In search of a simple soul. Aust. Nat. Hist. 23 [10]: 806-807.
  29. Archer, M., 1992.  Palaeontological poltergeists. Aust. Nat. Hist. 23 [12]: 950-951.
  30. Archer, M., 1992.  Sandwiches and sandwich eaters. Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [1]: 64-65.
  31. Archer, M., 1992.  Patagonian platypus. Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [3]: 60-61.
  32. Archer, M., 1993.  The Murgon monster.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [4]: 60-61.
  33. Archer, M., 1993.  Lifting lids off the limits of life.  Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [5]: 58.
  34. Archer, M., 1993.  Ecotourism in a brave new land. Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [6]: 60-62.
  35. Archer, M., 1993.  A ruthless roo that craved flesh to chew.   Aust. Nat. Hist. 24 [7]: 60-61.  
  36. Archer, M., 1994.  Lazarus lizards and undead dinos. Aust. Nat. Hist.  24 [8]: 60-61.
  37. Archer, M., 1994.  Velvet worms: non-missing missing links. Aust. Nat. Hist.  24 [9]: 68-69.
  38. Archer, M., 1994.  Opportunism and the gizzards of Oz. Aust. Nat. Hist.  24 [10]: 68-69.
  39. Archer, M., 1994.  ‘Sine’ of the times? Aust. Nat. Hist.  24 [11]: 68-69.
  40. Archer, M., 1995.  Devils, dugites and ‘dirt brains’. Aust. Nat. Hist.  24 [12]: 68-69.
  41. Archer, M., 1995.  Pin pricks & verdant vistas. Aust. Nat. Hist.  24 [12]: 80.
  42. Archer, M., 1995.  Mystery of the multiplying monotremes. Nature Aust.25 [1]: 68-69.
  43. Archer, M., 1995.  Borneo bats and sweaty insights. Nature Aust.  25 [2]: 68-69.
  44. Archer, M., 1996.  Miocene Madonna & child. Nature Aust.25 [3]: 70-71.
  45. Archer, M., 1996.  Crocodile dinners and diners. Nature Aust.25 [4]: 70-71.
  46. Archer, M., 1996.  Possum patterns plucked from stone. Nature Aust.25 [5]: 60-61.
  47. Archer, M., 1996.  Evolution after death.  Nature Aust. 25 [6]: 70-71.
  48. Archer, M., 1997. The flesh-eating kangaroo. Highlife November 1997: 130.
  49. Archer, M., 1997. Tickling the dull out of taxonomy. Nature Australia  25(7): 70-71.
  50. Archer, M., 1997. Tiger, tiger out of sight. Nature Australia  25(8): 70-71.
  51. Archer, M., 1997. The lengthening limits of life. Nature Australia  25(9): 70-71.
  52. Archer, M., 1997. Worries about withering wombats. Nature Australia 25(10): 70-71.
  53. Archer, M., 1997. Vertebrate palaeontology, School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales.  Nomen Nudum 25: 35-44.
  54. Archer, M., 1997. Four cloven feet bad, two paws good. The Canberra Times (Science & Technology guest editorial) 16 September: 14.
  55. Archer, M., 1998. Koalas: apostles or fossils. Nature Australia  25(11): 70-71.
  56. Archer, M., 1998. Fried and footless fossil fangers. Nature Australia  25(12): 70-71.
  57. Archer, M., 1998. The one-in-600 year wave. Nature Australia  26(1): 70-71.
  58. Archer, M., 1998. Bizarre bats of the burrows. Nature Australia  26(2): 70-71.
  59. Archer, M., 1999. A legacy of boats, bloats and floaters.  Nature Australia  26(3): 70-71.
  60. Archer, M., 1999. Tipping an air head out of a bed of stone. Nature Australia  26(4): 70-71.
  61. Archer, M., 1999. Immunising against flim-flam virus. Nature Australia  26(5): 70-71.
  62. Archer, M., 1999. Bugs and bones in ancient stones. Nature Australia  26(6): 70-71.
  63. Archer, M., 2000. Brain of the demon duck of doom. Nature Australia  26(7): 70-71.
  64. Archer, M., 2000. Monstrous moggies or charming chditches? Nature Australia  26(8): 70-71.
  65. Archer, M., XXXX. Foreword. [To David Fleay’s book on Platypus; add detials]
  66. Archer, M., 2001. Foreword. Pp. v-viin A field guide to the mammals of Australia by P. Menkhorst, F. Knight. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  67. Archer, M., 2001. Foreword. Australian Geographic Gulf Country. Author: S. Neales. Editor K. Eastwood. Australian Geographic, Sydney.
  68. Archer, M., 2001. Preface. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25.
  69. Archer, M., 2007. A word to start. P. 5 in Locally wild: keeping native animals as pets by C. Cheng. Pluto Press Australia.
  70. Archer, M., 2009. Foreword. Pp. 8-9 in Wildlife of Australia by L. Egerton, J. Lochman. Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
  71. Eldride, D., Banks, P., Archer, M., Moles, A. (editors), 2009. Life in Arid Lands BIOS3161 Course Manual. University of New South Wales, Sydney.

4. Conference abstracts since 1988 (some refereed; some not)

  1. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1988.  Green cradle: the rainforest origins of Australia's marsupials.  Abstracts 7th International Palynological Congress, Brisbane, p. 2.
  2. Archer, M., 1988. Thegosis: a new look at form, function and evolution of human teeth.  Abstracts 25th Australian Dental Congress Sydney 15-20 May, 1988: p. 28.
  3. Kirsch, J.A.W., Springer, M.S., Krajewski, C., Archer, M., Aplin, K., 1989.  DNA/DNA hybridization studies of carnivorous marsupials.  I.  The intergeneric relationships of bandicoots (Marsupialia: Perameloidea).  CSEOL Conference.  Abstract.
  4. Pledge, N.S., Archer, M., 1989.  Revision in the marsupial ektopodontid genus Ektopodon .  Abstract, Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Scientific Meeting, Calgary.
  5. Rich, T.H., Rich, P.V., Wagstaff, B.E., McEwen Mason, J.R.C., Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Molnar, R.E., Long, J.A., 1989.  Two chronological anomalies in the Early Cretaceous tetrapod assemblages of southeastern Australia.  Proc. First Internat. Symp. Nonmarine Cretaceous Correlations; Urumqi, China, 24-30 August, 1987 (Abstract).
  6. Van Dyck, S., Archer, M., 1989.  A new Antechinus-like dasyurid from the Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh.  Scientific Meeting and A.G.M. of the Australian Mammal Society, Alice Springs, April 24-25.  Abstract.
  7. White, A.W., Archer, M., 1989.  Riversleigh's turtles--so far. Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics.  Abstracts: p. 17.
  8. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1989.  The Tingamarra Local Fauna from Murgon, southeastern Queensland: Australia's oldest marsupials. Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics.  Abstracts: p. 6.
  9. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Plane, M.D., 1989.  New potoroine from the Tertiary Kangaroo Well Local Fauna, Northern Territory, and description of the upper dentition of the potoroine Wakiewakie lawsoni from Upper Site Local Fauna, Riversleigh. Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics.  Abstracts: p. 6.
  10. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1989.  A fossil bat-rich, Oligo-Miocene cave-fill from Riversleigh Station, north-western Queensland. Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics. Abstracts: p. 7.
  11. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1989.  Australian fossil hipposiderids: new evidence about the evolutionary history and radiation of old world leaf-nosed bats.  8th International Bat Research Conference, Sydney 1989. Abstracts: p. 10.
  12. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., 1989.  The Australian bat fauna: a 30 million year history?  Scientific Meeting and A.G.M. of the Australian Mammal Society, Alice Springs, April 24-25, 1989.  Abstracts: p. 26.
  13. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1989.  Dentition of the Oligocene/Miocene ornithorhynchid genus Obdurodon and the phylogenetic relationships of monotremes. Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics.  Abstracts: p. 1.
  14. Archer, M., 1990.  Distribution patterns in space and time for Australian ‘possums’ and ‘possum-like’ diprotodontians.  Aust. Mamm. Soc. Abstracts AGM, Canberra, 1990: 10.
  15. Archer, M., Murray, P., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1990.  Reconsideration of monotreme relationships based on skull and dentition of the Miocene Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp. (Ornithorhynchidae) from Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia.  P. 10 in “Phylogeny of mammals (abstracts)” ed F. Szalay, M. Novacek and M. McKenna.  American Museum of Natural History: New York.
  16. Archer, M., Murray, P., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1991.  Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp., an ornithorhynchid from the Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh and its value in understanding the phylogenetic relationships of monotremes.  P. 1 in  Abstracts of the "Symposium on monotreme biology", a symposium of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales held at the Univ. N.S.W.: Sydney.
  17. Archer, M., Pascual, R., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., 1991.  Marsupial biogeography of the Eocene--a new southern perspective.  Abstracts International Conference Monument Grube Messel--Perspectives and Relationships 6-9 November, 1991.
  18. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1991.  The Tingamarra Local Fauna--Eocene mammals of Australia.  Abstracts International Conference Monument Grube Messel--Perspectives and Relationships 6-9 November, 1991 [Hessiches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany].
  19. Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Novacek, M., Archer, M., 1991.  An early Tertiary bat from the Tingamarra Local Fauna of southeastern Queensland, Australia.  Abstracts International Conference Monument Grube Messel--Perspectives and Relationships 6-9 November, 1991 [Hessiches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany].
  20. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., 1993.  Environmental and biotic change in the Tertiary of Australia.  Abstracts Conference on  Paleoclimate and Evolution with Emphasis on Human Evolution, Airlie Conference Centre, Virginia, pp. 1-9.
  21. White, A..W., Archer, M., 1993.  A new Pleistocene turtle from fluviatile deposits at Riversleigh.  Abstracts Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution , Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide.
  22. Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Muirhead, J., Nock, C., Augee, M., 1993.  In pursuit of the peregrinating Patagonian platypus.  Abstracts Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution , Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide.
  23. Archer, M., 1993.  Changes in Australia's rainforest biotas: documenting but not accepting loss.  Abstracts ANZAAS 1993: Science, Making the Difference, Perth, p. 16.
  24. Archer, M., 1993.  Deathtraps and poltergeists in Western Australia.  Abstracts Systematics, Evolution and Conservation of the Western Australian Biota, Perth, p. 5.
  25. Archer, M., 1993.  Evolution of the Australian mammal fauna.  Abstracts Sixth International Theriological Congress, University of New South Wales, Sydney, p. 8-9.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Scanlon, J.D., Archer, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H., 1997. Preliminary biostratigraphic analysis of snakes from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Queensland. Palaeobiogeography of Australian Faunas and Floras, University of Wollongong, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 48: 65.
  29. 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.
  30. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 1997. Early Tertiary mammals in Australia.  BiochroM 97, Abstracts.
  31. 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.
  32. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 1997. Correlation of the Cainozoic sediments of the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Property, Queensland, Australia.  BiochroM 97, Abstracts.
  33. Archer, M., 1997. Messing with mammalian meanderings. Palaeobiogeography of Australian Faunas and Floras, University of Wollongong, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts: 7.
  34. 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.
  35. 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).
  36. 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).
  37. 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).
  38. Archer, M., 1999. The use of fossils to clarify long-term survival trends. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement  57: 389-390 (abstract).
  39. Wroe, S., Archer, M., 1999.  Were propleopines carnivorous? Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement  57: 423 (abstract).
  40. Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S., Aplin, K., 2001. A new species of the enigmatic mammal genus Tingamarra: a placental mammal in the court of king kangaroo? Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 134: 105.
  41. Goin, F.J., Forasiepi, A.M., Candela, A.M., Ortiz Jaureguizar, E., Pascual, R., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Muirhead, J., Augee, M., Hand, S., Wroe, S., 2002. Earliest Paleocene marsupials from Patagonia. International Palaeontological Congress 2002, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 68, 67.
  42. Musser, A.M., Archer, M., Cody, A., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Flannery, T., Crompton, A.W., 2002. Upper molars of a bunodont Mesozoic mammal from Australia (Monotremata; Kollikodontidae). International Palaeontological Congress 2002, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 68, 120.
  43. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H. 2003. Trophic structure and spatial resource partitioning in an early Miocene bat community in northern Australia. Abstract, 9th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics 2003.
  44. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H. 2003. New Australian Oligo-Miocene mystacinids (Microchiroptera) and divergence of New Zealand species. Abstract, 9th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics 2003.
  45. Warburton, N., Aplin, K., Archer, M. 2003. Functional morphology of the Riversleigh fossil marsupial mole. Abstract, 9th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics 2003.
  46. Louys, J., Aplin, K., Archer, M. 2005. A description of Oligo-Miocene koala skulls (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) and their functional interpretation. Abstract, 10th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium 2005: 46-47.
  47. Roberts, K.K., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J. 2005. Taphonomy and local fauna of a new site within the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Price is Right Site). Abstract, 10th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium 2005: 66.
  48. Roberts, K.K., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2005. A new genus and species of extinct Miocene ringtail possums (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae). Abstract, 10th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium 2005: 67.
  49. Travouillon, K.J., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 2005. Multivariate analyses of the Riversleigh Local Faunas, northwestern Queensland. Abstract, 10th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium 2005: 74.
  50. Price, E., Graham, I., and Archer, M., 2006. Complexity of freshwater limestone systems: a case study from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia. !7th International Sedimentological Congress (ISC) 2006 ‘From the Highest to the Deepest’, Fukuoka Japan, Abstract Volume (compiled and edited by K. Hoyanagi, O. Gakano and K. Kano), ABSTRACT 0250.
  51. Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H. 2006. Treasuring thirty years of hard labour at Riversleigh. Abstract, Riversleigh 2006 Symposium (UNSW): 9.
  52. Beck, R.M.D., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2006. 'Ameridelphian' and crown australidelphian marsupials from the Early Eocene of Australia. Abstract, Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) 54th annual meeting 2006, Paris: 2.
  53. Beck, R.M.D., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2006. 'Australian' and 'American' marsupials from the early Eocene of Australia. Abstract, Riversleigh 2006 Symposium (UNSW): 30-31.
  54. Hand, S.J., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Tennyson, A. 2006.  Placing Mystacina in a palaeontological context – first Tertiary bats from New Zealand reveal new implications for the origins of the Australasian bat fauna. Plenary Address, 12th Australasian Bat Society Conference, Auckland, Abstracts: 12.
  55. Roberts, K.K., Archer, M. 2006. The early evolution of the ringtail possum family: the specifics so far. Abstract, Riversleigh 2006 Symposium (UNSW): 29.
  56. Beck, R., Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Hand, S., 2007. Petrosals and tarsals of the early Eocene Australian metatherian Djarthia murgonensis: the oldest crown-group marsupial from Australasia and its implications for the evolution and biogeography of Australidelphia. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 27(3) Abstracts, 45A.
  57. Hand, S., Beck, R., Worthy, T., Archer, M., 2007. Australian and New Zealand bats: the orgin, evolution, and extinction of bat lineages in Australasia. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 27(3) Abstracts, 86A.
  58. Roberts, K., Archer, M., 2007. A morphological approach to unraveling the relationships of ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia). Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 27(3) Abstracts, 136A.
  59. Travouillon, K., Legendre, S., Archer, M., Hand, S., 2007. Explaining the gaps in body mass distribution (cenograms): statistical visualization of the ecological impact of introduced species. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 27(3) Abstracts, 159A.
  60. Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H.  2007. Riversleigh fossil bats: a review. Abstract, Australasian Bat Scociety Symposium, Sydney 2007.
  61. Hand, S.J., Worthy, T., Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Beck, R.M., Tennyson, A., Scofield, P., Sige, B., 2007.  New opportunities for testing competing biogeographic hypotheses about the origins of the Australasian bat fauna. Abstract, 11th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium.
  62. Price, E., Graham, I., Archer, M. 2007. Freshwater limestone deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia. 4th International Limnogeology Congress (ILIC2007), Cosmocaixa, Barcelona, Spain. Limnogeology: tales of an evolving Earth, Programme and Abstract Volume, Abstract No. s6-03, p. 54. 
  63. Roberts, K.K., Archer, M. 2007. Early pseudocheirid evolution revealed by the Oligo-Miocene localities of Riversleigh and central Australia. Abstract, 11th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium 2007.
  64. Travouillon, K.J., Legendre, S., Archer, M., Hand, S.J., 2007. Do cenograms work on marsupial faunas? Comparison with other palaeoecological techniques and implication for the Riversleigh faunas. Abstract, 11th Conference on Australasian Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics and Quaternary Extinctions Symposium 2007.
  65. Price, E., Graham, I., Archer, M. 2008. Geochemical analysis of the Miocene freshwater limestones from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia. 26th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology & Sediment 2008, Meeting of SEPM-CES, Bochum Germany.
  66. Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Archer, M., Scofield, R.P. 2008. First record of Palaelodus from New Zealand. Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, 7th International Meeting 18-22 August 2008, Sydney.
  67. Archer, M., Azar, D., Bickel, D., Creaser, P., Dettmann, M., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J, Jones, A., Lak, M.,  Néraudeau, D., Norris, B., Soriano, C., Tafforeau, P, Wicks, D. 2009. Synchrotron imaging of fossil inclusions in Australia’s first amber. 10th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, Melbourne, Sept. 2009.
  68. Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Lee, M.S.Y., Hutchinson, M., Tennyson, A.J.D., Scofield, R.P., Marshall, B., Worthy J.P., Nguyen, J. M., Boles W. E., Archer M. 2009. New Zealand’s St Bathans Fauna: an update on its composition and relationships. Abstract, Geogenes Conference, Christchurch, Feb 2009.
  69. Bates, H.L., Archer, M., Beck, R.M.D., Cooke, B., Hand, S.J. 2009. New Miocene species of musky rat kangaroos (Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodoidea): description, phylogenetics and new hypotheses about kangaroo evolution.  Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 93:13
  70. Black, K,  Hand, S.J., Archer, M., Godthelp, H. 2009. A review of the Riversleigh diprotodontoids and an analysis of phylogenetic relationships within the superfamily (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae, Palorchestidae). Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 93: 22.
  71. Hand, S.J., Black, K., Archer, M., Godthelp, H. 2009. Palaeoecological implications of peculiar cranial morphology in Old World leafnosed bats (Hipposideridae). Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 93: 33.
  72. Travouillon, K.J., Escarguel, G., Legendre, S., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2009. The use of MSR: how much data is needed to say something meaningful in palaeoecology?  Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 93: 58.
  73. Brewer, P., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. 2009. A new genus and species of primitive wombat (Marsupialia) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Property in northwestern Queenasland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts, SVP Bristol, UK, Sept 09.