Michael Archer

For the entomologist, see Michael Edward Archer.

Michael (Mike) Archer (born 1945), Australian paleontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 19 taxon names authored by Michael Archer

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1982

• 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 the early radiation of the family. Pp. 495–502. In Archer, M. (ed.) Carnivorous marsupials. Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Reference page. 

1984

• Archer, M. 1984. The Australian marsupial radiation. Pp. 633–808. In: Archer, M. & Clayton, G. (eds.) Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia. Perth: Hesperian Press. ISBN 978-0859050364 Reference page. 

1992

• Archer, M., Jenkins, F.A., Jr., Hand, S.J., Murray, P.F. & Godthelp, H. 1992. Description of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins. Pp. 15–27. In Augee, M.L. (ed.). Platypus and Echidnas. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Reference page. 
• Pascual, R., Archer, M., Ortiz Jaureguizar, E., Prado, J.R. do, Godthelp, H. & Hand, S.J. 1992. The first non-Australian monotreme: an early Paleocene South American platypus (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae). Augee, M.L. (ed.) Platypus and echidnas. The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, New South Wales. Pp. i–ii, 1–296. Chapter pagination: 1–14. Reference page. 

1995

• Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Rich, T.H. & Jones, R. 1995. A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia. Nature 377: 418–420. DOI: 10.1038/377418a0 ResearchGate Reference page. 

1998

• Hand, S.J., Murray, P., Megirian, D., Archer, M. & Godthelp, H. 1998. Mystacinid bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary. Journal of paleontology 72(3): 538–545. Abstract. JSTOR. Reference page. 

2004

• McKenzie, K.G., Engelbretsen, M., Archer, M. & Price, E. 2004. Ostracoda from the Miocene, Riversleigh World Heritage deposits, Queensland, including Progomphocythere n. gen., with discussion of palaeoenvironments and age. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 43(1–2): 321–330.

2010

• 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(2): 479–498. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003618033 Reference page. 

2013

• Pian, R., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2013. A new, giant platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia. Journal of vertebrate paleontology 33(6): 1255–1259. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.782876 Reference page. 
• Hand, S.J., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6): 1442–1448. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.775950 Reference page. 

2015

• Rhodin, A.G.J., Kaiser, H., van Dijk, P.P., Wüster, W., O’Shea, M., Archer, M., Auliya, M., Boitani, L., Bour, R., Clausnitzer, V., Contreras-MacBeath, T., Crother, B.I., Daza, J.M., Driscoll, C.A., Flores-Villela, O., Frazier, J., Fritz, U., Gardner, A.L., Gascon, C., Georges, A., Glaw, F., Grazziotin, F.G., Groves, C.P., Haszprunar, G., Havaš, P., Hero, J-M., Hoffmann, M., Hoogmoed, M.S., Horne, B.D., Iverson, J.B., Jäch, M., Jenkins, C.L., Jenkins, R.K.B., Kiester, A.R., Keogh, J.S., Lacher, Jr., T.E., Lovich, J.E., Luiselli, L., Mahler, D.L., Mallon, D., Mast, R., McDiarmid, R.W., Measey, J., Mittermeier, R.A., Molur, S., Mosbrugger, V., Murphy, R.W., Naish, D., Niekisch, M., Ota, H., Parham, J.F., Parr, N.J., Pilcher, N.J., Pine, R.H., Rylands, A.B.., Sanderson, J.G., Savage, J.M., Schleip, W., Scrocchi, G.J., Shaffer, H.B., Smith, E.N., Sprackland, R., Stuart, S.N., Vetter, H., Vitt, L.J., Waller, T., Webb, G., Wilson, E.O., Zaher, H. & Thomson, S. 2015. Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was described. Case 3601. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1): 61–78. PDF. Reference page. 

2016

• Gillespie, A.K., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2016. A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.26A: 1–26. DOI: 10.26879/632 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Handley, W.D., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2016. The extinct flightless mihirungs (Aves, Dromornithidae): cranial anatomy, a new species, and assessment of Oligo-Miocene lineage diversity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3): e1031345. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1031345 Academia.edu Reference page. 

2017

• Gillespie, A.K., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2017. A new Oligo–Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(1): 59–89. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1391885 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2018

• Hand, S.J., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M., Simmons, N.B., Gunnell, G.F., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., De Pietri, V.L., Salisbury, S.W. & Worthy, T.H. 2018. A New, Large-bodied Omnivorous Bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals Lost Morphological and Ecological Diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand. Scientific Reports 8: 235. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w Reference page. 

2019

• Gillespie, A.K., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. "2019" [2020]. Lekaneleo, a new genus of marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the Oligocene–Miocene of Australia, and the craniodental morphology of L. roskellyae, comb. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(5): e1703722-2. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1703722 ResearchGate Reference page.