Brian Mackness
Brian Mackness, Australian palaeontologist. Specialised on Pliocene palaeoecology, diprotodotonid marsupials, palaeopathology. Currently researching Bluff Downs, Chinchilla and Spring Park Local Faunas.
Taxon names authored
(List may be incomplete)
Author (co-author) of following taxa:
- Porphyrio porphyrio nujagura Boles & Mackness, 1994
- Anhinga malagurala Mackness 1995a
- Palorchestes selestiae Mackness, 1995b
- Quinkana babarra Willis & Mackness, 1996
- Elseya nadibajagu Thomson & Mackness, 1999
- Pseudochirops winteri Mackness & Archer, 2002
- Liasis dubudingala Scanlon & Mackness, 2002
Publications edit
- Boles, W.E. & Mackness, B.S. 1994. Birds from the Bluff Downs Local Fauna, Allingham Formation, Queensland. Records of the South Australian Museum 27: 139-149.
- Mackness, B.S. 1995a. Anhinga malagurala, a new pygmy darter from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northeastern Queensland. Emu 95: 265-271.
- Mackness, B.S. 1995b. Palorchestes selestiae, a new species of palorchestid marsupial from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 603-609.
- Mackness, B.S. & Archer, M. 2002. A new petauroid possum (Marsupialia,Pseudocheiridae) from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Queensland. Alcheringa 25: 439-444.
- Scanlon, J. & Mackness, B.S. 2002. A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland. Alcheringa 25: 425-437
- Thomson, S. & Mackness, B.S. 1999. Fossil reptiles from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna. Turtles: with a description of a new species of Elseya. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 123: 101-105
- Wroe, S. & Mackness, B.S. 2000. A new genus and species of dasyurid from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of south-eastern Queensland. Alcheringa 24: 319–326
- Wroe, S. & Mackness, B.S. 2000. Additional material of Dasyurus dunmalli from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of Queensland and its phylogenetic implications. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 640–645. BHL Reference page.
- Willis, P.M.A. & Mackness, B.S. 1996. Quinkana babarra, a new species of ziphodont mekosuchine crocodile from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Australian with a revision of the genus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 116: 143-151.