Riversleigh Fossil Site Partial Bibliography

• Archer, M., Black, K., "A moment of motherhood." Riversleigh Notes, 25 (1994) 4-5. [Account of the discovery of the Bitesantennary diprotodontid skulls and realisation that they were mother and child (a new genus and species) with a very poignant story to tell about a Tertiary tragedy]
  
  
• Archer, M., Godthelp, H., Muirhead, J., Nock, C., Augee, M., "In pursuit of the peregrinating Patagonian platypus." Records of the South Australian Museum 27 (1994) 217. [Compares the South American platypus with the better-known material from Riversleigh]
  
  
• Archer, M., Hand, S.J., Godthelp, H., Riversleigh: the story of animals in ancient rainforests of inland Australia 2nd edition, Reed Books: Sydney (1994).
  
  
• Archer, M. et al., Riversleigh: the Story of Australia's Inland Rainforests Reed Books, Sydney (1991).
  
  
• Boles, W.E., "The world's oldest songbird." Nature, 374 (1995) 21-22. [Discussion of the significance of the Murgon passerines - the oldest in the world by almost 25 million years]
  
  
• Hutchinson M.N., "Origins of the Australian scincid lizards: a preliminary report on the skinks of Riversleigh." The Beagle 9 (1992) 61-70.
  
  
• Muirhead, J., Filan, S.L. ``Yarala burchfieldi, a plesiomorphic bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland." J. Paleont., 69 (1995) 127-34.
  
  
• Tyler, M.J., Leong. A.S.-Y., Godthelp, H., "Tumors of the ilia of modern and Tertiary Australian frogs." J. Herpetology 28 (1994) 528-29.
  
  
• Wells, R.T. et al., (1984). "The fossil vertebrate deposits of Victoria Fossil Cave: an introduction to the geology and fauna." Aust. Zool. 21 (1984) 305-33.
  
  
• White, A.W., Archer, M., ``Emydura lavarackorum, a new Pleistocene turtle (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from fluviatile deposits at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland." Records of the South Australian Museum 27 (1994) 159-67.