Stephen Wroe

Stephen Wroe, Australian vertebrate morphologist, palaeontologist and biomechanist.

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia

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Wroe. S. 1998 A new bone-cracking dasyurid (marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa. 22 (3): Reference page.

Godthelp, H., Wroe, S. & Archer, M. A new marsupial from the Early Eocene Tingamarra local fauna of Murgon, southeastern Queensland: A prototypical Australian marsupial?. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6(3): 289–313. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020517808869 Reference page.
Wroe, S. 1999. The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-west Queensland. Palaeontology 42(3): 501–527. PDF. Reference page.

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.
Wroe, S. & Mackness, B.S. 2000. A new genus and species of dasyurid from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of south-eastern Queensland. Alcheringa 45(2): 319–326. DOI: 10.1080/03115510008619535 Reference page.

Bicknell, R.D.C., Simone, Y., van der Meijden, A., Wroe, S., Edgecombe, G.D. & Paterson, J.R. 2022. Biomechanical analyses of pterygotid sea scorpion chelicerae uncover predatory specialisation within eurypterids. PeerJ 10: e14515. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14515 . Reference page.
Cooper, J.A., Hutchinson, J.R., Bernvi, D.C., Cliff, G., Wilson, R.P., Dicken, M.L., Menzel, J., Wroe, S., Pirlo, J. & Pimiento, C. 2022. The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic superpredator: Inferences from 3D modeling. Science Advances 8(33): eabm9424. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm9424 . Reference page.