Michael Archer

For the entomologist, see Michael Edward Archer.

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

• School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 83 taxon names authored by Michael Archer

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 2 eponyms of Michael Archer

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1975

• Archer, M. 1975. Ningaui, a new genus of tiny dasyurids (Marsupialia) and two new species, N. timealeyi and N. ridei from arid Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(2): 237–249. [1] Reference page. 

1976

• 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. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(3): 379–398. BHL Reference page. 

1982

• Archer, M. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation and suprageneric classification. Pp. 397–443 in Archer, M. (ed). Carnivorous Marsupials. Royal Zoology Society of New South Wales: Sydney. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Flannery, T.F., Archer, M. & Plane, M. 1982. Middle Miocene Kangaroos (Macropodoidea: Marsupialia) from three localities in Northern Australia, with a description of two new subfamilies. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 7(4): 287–302. PDF. Reference page. 

1984

• Archer, M. 1984. Origins and early radiations of marsupials. Pp. 585–631. In: Archer, M. & Clayton, G. (eds.) Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia. Perth: Hesperian Press. ISBN 978-0-859-05036-4 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Flannery, T.F. & Archer, M. 1984. The macropodoids (Marsupialia) of the early Pliocene Bow local fauna, central eastern New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 21(4): p. 364. BHL Reference page. 

1985

• Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., Ritchie, A. & Molnar, R.E. 1985. First Mesozoic mammal from Australia—an early Cretaceous monotreme. Nature 318: 363–366. DOI: 10.1038/318363a0 . Reference page. 

1988

• Archer, M., Hand, S. & Godthelp, H. 1988. A New Order of Tertiary Zalambdodont Marsupials. Science 239(4847): 1528–1531. DOI: 10.1126/science.239.4847.1528 Academia.edu 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. 
• Godthelp, H., Archer, M., Cifelli, R., Hand, S.J. & Gilkeson, C.F. 1992. Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna. Nature 356(6369): 514–516. DOI: 10.1038/356514a0 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. 

2000

• Crosby, K. & Archer, M. 2000. Durudawirines, a New Group of Phalangeroid Marsupials From the Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 74(2): 327–335.  DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0327:DANGOP>2.0.CO;2 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. 

2011

• Archer, M., Beck, R., Gott, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H. & Black, K. [2010] 2011. Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278(1711): 1498–1506. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1943 Reference page. 

2013

• Black, K.H., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. & Godthelp, H. 2013. Revision in the piprotodontid marsupial genus Neohelos: systematics and biostratigraphy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4): 679–706. DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0001 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• 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. 

2014

• 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. 

2015

• Hand, S.J., Lee, D.E., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Scofield, R.P., Mildenhall, D.C., Kennedy, E.M. & Lindqvist, J.K. 2015. Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand's endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128871. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128871 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Brewer, P., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. & Abel, R. 2015. New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia). Palaeontologia Electronica 18(1): 1–40. [2] ResearchGate Reference page. 

2016

• Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Black, K.H., Beck, R.M.D., Arena, D.A., Wilson, L.A.B., Kealy, S. & Hung, T.-T. 2016. A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Scientific Reports 6(26911): 1–14. DOI: 10.1038/srep26911 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. 
• 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. 
• Travouillon, K.J., Louys, J., Price, G.J., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. & Muirhead, J. 2017. A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(5): e1360894. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894 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. 

2020

• Beck, R.M.D., Louys, J., Brewer, P., Archer, M., Black, K.H. & Tedford, R.H. 2020. A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes). Scientific Reports 10(1): 9741. DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-66425-8 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2025

• Churchill, T.J., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2025. A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Middle and Late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32(16): 1–29. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-025-09755-6 Reference page. 
• Hand, S.J., Wilson, L.A.B., López-Aguirre, C., Houssaye, A., Archer, M., Bevitt, J.J., Evans, A.R., Halim, A.Y., Hung, T., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P. & Beck, R.M.D. 2025. Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122(19) e2413569122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2413569122 Reference page. 

2026

• Churchill, T.J., Archer, M., Hand, S.J. & Beck, R.M.D. 2026. A new metatherian order from Australia (Keeunamorphia, Metatheria), and new Early Miocene species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 1–30. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2026.10238 Reference page.