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. 1996. Muribacinus gadiyuli (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia) Journal of Paleontology 70(6): 1032–1044. DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000038737 Reference page.
Wroe, S. 1996. An investigation of phylogeny in the giant extinct rat kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology 70(4): 681–690. JSTOR Reference page.

Wroe, S. 1997. A Reexamination of Proposed Morphology-Based Synapomorphies for the Families of Dasyuromorphia (Marsupialia). I. Dasyuridae. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 4: 19–52. DOI: 10.1023/A:1027379610196 Reference page.
Wroe, S. 1997. Mayigriphus orbus gen. et sp. nov., a Miocene dasyuromorphian from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(2): 439–448. BHL Reference page.

Muirhead, J. & Wroe, S. 1998. A new genus and species, Badjcinus turnbulli (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), from the Late Oligocene of Riversleigh, northern Australia, and an investigation of thylacinid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3): 612–626. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.1998.10011088 Reference page.
Wroe. S. 1998 A new bone-cracking dasyurid (marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa. 22 (3): Reference page.
Wroe, S., Brammall, J. & Cooke, B.N. 1998. The Skull of Ekaltadeta ima (Marsupialia, Hypsiprymnodontidae?): An Analysis of Some Marsupial Cranial Features and a Re-Investigation of Propleopine Phylogeny, with Notes on the Inference of Carnivory in Mammals. Journal of Paleontology 72(4): 738–751. JSTOR Reference page.

Dawson, L., Muirhead, J. & Wroe, S. 1999. The Big Sink Local Fauna: a lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales. Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement 57: 265–290. 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. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00082 ; PDF Reference page.

Krajewski, C., Wroe, S. & Westerman, M. 2000. Molecular evidence for the pattern and timing of cladogenesis in dasyurid marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 130(3): 375–404. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb01635.x 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.
Wroe, S., Ebach, M., Ahyong, S., de Muizon, C. & Muirhead, J. 2000. Cladistic Analysis of Dasyuromorphian (Marsupialia) Phylogeny Using Cranial and Dental Characters. Journal of Mammalogy 81(4): 1008–1024. DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<1008:CAODMP>2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Wroe, S. 2001. A new genus and species of dasyuromorphian from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northern Australia. Memoirs of the Australasian Paleontological Society 25: 53–59. Reference page.
Wroe, S. 2001. Maximucinus muirheadae, gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, with estimates of body weights for fossil thylacinids. Australian Journal of Zoology 49(6): 603–614. DOI: 10.1071/ZO01044 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.