Suzanne Joan Hand

Suzanne Joan Hand (1955–), Australian palaeontologist and chiropterologist.

• PANGEA (Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives) Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Australia, Sydney, 2052, Australia.

Taxon names authored

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• 55 taxon names authored by Suzanne Joan Hand

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Suzanne Joan Hand

Publications

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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. 

1990

• Hand, S.J. 1990. First Tertiary molossid (Microchiroptera: Molossidae) from Australia: its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(1): 175–192. [1] 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. 

1997

• Hand, S.J. 1997. New Miocene leaf-nosed bats (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(2): 335–349. BHL Reference page. 
• Hand, S.J. 1997. Hipposideros bernardsigei, a new hipposiderid (Mammalia, Microchiroptera) from the Australian Miocene, and a reconsideration of the monophyly of related species groups. Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Reihe A, Geologie und Paläontologie 34: 73–92. 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. 

1999

• Hand, S.J. & Godthelp, H. 1999. First Australian Pliocene species of Hipposideros (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 299–306. Online Reference page. 

2003

• Hand, S.J. & Kirsch, J.A.W. 2003. Archerops, a new annectent hipposiderid genus (Mammalia: Microchiroptera) from the Australian Miocene. Journal of Paleontology 77(6): 1139–1151. DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<1139:AANAHG>2.0.CO;2 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2010

• Nguyen, J.M.T., Boles, W.E. & Hand, S.J. 2010. New Material of Barawertornis tedfordi, a Dromornithid Bird from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, and its Phylogenetic Implications. Records of the Australian Museum 62: 45–60. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1539 Reference page. 
• 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. 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. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Scofield, R.P. & Hand, S.J. 2013. Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 43(4): 211–230. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2013.825300 Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves. Pp. 63-80 in: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.), Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Vienna, 2013. ResearchGate 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. 

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. 
• Armstrong, K.N., Goodman, S.M., Benda, P. & Hand, S.J. 2016. A common name for the bat family Rhinonycteridae—the Trident Bats. Zootaxa 4179(1): 115–117. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.7 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. 
• 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. 

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. 

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.