Robin M.D. Beck

Robin M.D. Beck, British paleontologist.

School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom.

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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.

Archer, M., Beck, R., Gott, M., Hand, S., Godthelp, H. & Black, K. 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.

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., 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.

Beck, R.M.D. "2017" [2016]. The Skull of Epidolops ameghinoi from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Fauna, Southeastern Brazil, and the Affinities of the Extinct Marsupialiform Order Polydolopimorphia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 2017 24(4): 373–414. DOI: 10.1007/S10914-016-9357-6 Reference page.
Kealy, S. & Beck, R. 2017. Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia). BMC Ecology and Evolution 17(1): 240. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1090-0 Reference page.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Louys, J., Duval, M., Beck, R.M.D., Pease, E., Sobbe, I., Sands, N. & Price, G.J. 2022. Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae). Papers in Palaeontology 8(6): e1475. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1475 . Reference page.

Beck, R.M.D. 2023. Diversity and Phylogeny of Marsupials and Their Stem Relatives (Metatheria). Pp. 23–88. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08419-5_35 Google Books In: Cáceres, N.C. & Dickman, C.R. (eds.) American and Australasian Marsupials: An Evolutionary, Biogeographical, and Ecological Approach. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-88800-8. Reference page.