Kenny James Travouillon

Kenny James Travouillon, Australian mammalogist and paleontologist.

Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia, Australia.
School of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.

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(List may be incomplete)

Travouillon, K.J., Gurovich, Y., Beck, R.M.D. & Muirhead, J. 2010. An exceptionally well-preserved short-snouted bandicoot (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5): 1528–1546. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2010.501463 Reference page.

Travouillon, K.J., Gurovich, Y., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. & Muirhead, J. 2013. The genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1): 153–168. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.713416 Reference page.
Travouillon, K.J., Beck, R.M.D., Hand, S.J. & Archer, M. 2013. The oldest fossil record of bandicoots (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from the late Oligocene of Australia. Palaeontologia Electronica 16(2): 13A. DOI: 10.26879/363 Reference page.

Gurovich, Y., Travouillon, K.J., Beck, R.M.D., Muirhead, J. & Archer, M. [2013] 2014. Biogeographical implications of a new mouse-sized fossil bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) occupying a dasyurid-like ecological niche across Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12(3): 265–290. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2013.776646 Reference page.

Archer, M., Christmas, O., Hand, S.J., Black, K.H., Creaser, P., Godthelp, H., Graham, I., Cohen, D., Arena, D.A., Anderson, C., Soares, G., Machin, N., Beck, R.M.D., Wilson, L.A.B., Myers, T.J., Gillespie, A.K., Khoo, B. & Travouillon, K.J. 2016. Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74: p. 138. PDF Reference page.
Chamberlain, P.M., Travouillon, K.J., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2016. Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum gen. et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 40(2): 197–206. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2016.1103525 Reference page.
Travouillon, K.J. 2016. Investigating dental variation in Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804, with morphological evidence to raise P. nasuta pallescens Thomas, 1923 to species rank. Zootaxa 4114(4): 351–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.4.1. Reference page.

Travouillon, K.J. & Phillips, M.J. 2018. Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4378(2): 224–256. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.3. Reference page.

Travouillon, K.J., Simões, B.F., Miguez, R.P., Brace, S., Brewer, P., Stemmer, D., Price, G.J., Cramb, J. & Louys, J. 2019. Hidden in plain sight: reassessment of the pig-footed bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus (Peramelemorphia, Chaeropodidae), with a description of a new species from central australia, and use of the fossil record to trace its past distribution. Zootaxa 4566(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4566.1.1. Reference page.
Eldridge, M.D.B., Beck, R.M.D., Croft, D.A., Travouillon, K.J. & Fox, B.J. 2019. An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria). Journal of Mammalogy 100(3): 802–837. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz018 Reference page.

Travouillon, K.J., Parnaby, H. & Ingleby, S. 2020. Neotype designation for the Australian pig-footed bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus Ogilby, 1838. Records of the Australian Museum 72(3): 77–80. DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1761 Reference page.

Travouillon, K.J., Beck, R.M.D. & Case, J.A. 2021. Upper Oligocene–lower-Middle Miocene peramelemorphians from the Etadunna, Namba and Wipajiri formations of South Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 45(1): 109–125. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2021.1921274 Reference page.

Newman-Martin, J., Travouillon, K.J., Warburton, N., Barham, M. & Blyth, A.J. 2023. Taxonomic review of the genus Dasycercus (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) using modern and subfossil material; and the description of three new species. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 47(4): 624–661. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2023.2262083 Reference page.
Umbrello, L.S., Cooper, N.K., Adams, M., Travouillon, K.J., Baker, A.M., Westerman, M. & Aplin, K.P. 2023. Hiding in plain sight: two new species of diminutive marsupial (Dasyuridae: Planigale) from the Pilbara, Australia. Zootaxa 5330(1): 1–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.1 Reference page.

Dodd, C.S., Catullo, R.A., Travouillon, K.J., Baker, A.M., Westerman, M. & Umbrello, L.S. 2025. Cryptic kultarr: Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognized species of carnivorous marsupial (Dasyuridae: Antechinomys) in arid Australia. Ecology and Evolution 15(7): e71618. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71618 Reference page.
Newman-Martin, J., Travouillon, K.J., Warburton, N., Barham, M. & Blyth, A.J. 2025. A taxonomic revision of the Bettongia penicillata (Diprotodontia: Potoroidae) species complex and description of the subfossil species Bettongia haoucharae sp. nov. Zootaxa 5690(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5690.1.1 Reference page.

Travouillon, K.J., Bertozzi, T., MacDonald, A.J., Cooper, S.J.B., Flannery, T.F. & Helgen, K.M. 2026. A new species of bandicoot in the genus Peroryctes (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from Kwiyawagi, West Baliem Valley of Papua Province, Indonesia. Records of the Australian Museum 78(1): 5–16. DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.78.2026.3002 Reference page.