Peer-reviewed publications

2026

Shimada, K., Elstrup, M., Lauridsen, H., Sørensen, T. and Siversson, M. (2026). Rediscovery of the associated gigantic vertebrae of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, from the Upper Miocene Gram Formation in Denmark, and comments on its paleobiological significance and the maximum possible size of the species. Palaeontologia Electronica 29: 1–25.

Travouillon, K., Warburton, N.M., Thorn, K.M. and Ryan, H. (2026). New fossil koala (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from the Pleistocene of Western Australia. Royal Society Open Science 13: 251572.

Guinot, G., Adnet, S., Cuny, G., Feichtinger, I., Shimada, K., Siversson, M., Underwood, C.J., Vullo, R., Ward, D.J. and Condamine, F.L. (2026). Fossil-based analyses of clades’ diversification patterns require taxonomic expertise and appropriate methodology. bioRxiv.

2025

Stocklmayer, S., Stocklmayer, V., Downes, P.J., and Deacon, G.L., 2025. Gem minerals from Western Australian pegmatites. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 26(2): 5–24.

Bazzi, M., Siversson, M., Wintner, S., Newbrey, M., Payne, J.L., Campione, N.E., Roberts, A.J., Natanson, L.J., Hall, S., Blake, T. and Kear, B.P. (2025). Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution. Communications Biology 8: 1499.

Archer, M., Akerman, K., DeSantis, L., Dickson, B.V., Hand, S., Hatcher, L., Hellstrom, J.C., Jacobsen, G., Louys, J., Price, G.J., Ryan, H., Sniderman, K., Travouillon, K. and Woodhead, J. (2025). Australia’s First Peoples: hunters of extinct megafauna or Australia’s first fossil collectors. Royal Society Open Science 12: 250078.

Kear, B.P., Campione, N.E., Siversson, M., Bazzi, M. and Hart, L.J. (2025). Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 45: e2601224.

Downes, P.J., Forman, L. and Rogers, A.F. (2025). The Western Australian Museum Meteorite Collection. 87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Perth, Australia, 14–18 July 2025. LPI Contribution 3088: 5162.

Poropat, S.F., Tosolini, A.-M.P., Beeston, S.L., Enchelmaier, M.J., Pentland, A.H., Mannion, P.D., Upchurch, P., Chin, K., Korasidis, V.A., Bell, P.R., Enriquez, N.J., Holman, A.I., Brosnan, L.M., Elson, A.L., Tripp, M., Scarlett, A.G., Godel, B., Madden, R.H.C., Rickard, W.D.A., Bevitt, J.J., Tischler, T.R., Croxford, T.L.M., Sloan, T., Elliott, D.A. and Grice, K. (2025). Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs. Current Biology 35: 2597–2613.

Meyerkort, R.D., Kear, B.P., Everhart, M.J. and Siversson, M. (2025). Youngest fossil occurrence of ichthyosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research 168: 106071.

Shimada, K., Motani, R., Wood, J.J., Sternes, P.C., Tomita, T., Bazzi, M., Collareta, A., Gayford, J.H., Türtscher, J., Jambura, P.L. and Kriwet, J. (2025). Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction. Palaeontologia Electronica 28: 1502.

2024

Pentland, A.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T.H., Rigby, S.L. and Poropat, S.F. (2024). Oldest pterosaur remains from Australia: evidence from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) Eumeralla Formation of Victoria. Historical Biology 36: 1188–1195.

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., Duncan, R.J., Kellner, A.W.A., Bantim, R.A., Bevitt, J.J., Tait, A.M. and Grice, K. (2024). Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia. Scientific Reports 14: 11789.

Beeston, S.L., Poropat, S.F., Mannion, P.D., Pentland, A.H., Enchelmaier, M.J., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A. (2024). Reappraisal of sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, through 3D digitisation and description of new specimens. PeerJ 12: e17180. 

Travouillon, K.J., Ryan, H.E., Price, G.J., Thorn, K.M. and Williams, J. (2024). Mass-death assemblage of Pleistocene megafauna (Diprotodon optatum: Marsupialia) at Du Boulay Creek, Western Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 48: 2. 

Kotevski, J., Duncan, R.J., Pentland, A.H., Rule, J.P., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T.H., Fitzgerald, E.M.G., Evans, A.R. and Poropat, S.F. (2024). A megaraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) frontal from the upper Strzelecki Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Victoria, Australia. Cretaceous Research 154: 105769.

Sternes, P.C., Jambura, P.L., Türtscher, J., Kriwet, J., Siversson, M., Feichtinger, I., Naylor, G.J.P., Summers, A.P., Maisey, J.G., Tomita, T., Moyer, J.K., Higham, T.E., da Silva, J.Paulo.C.B., Bornatowski, H., Long, D.J., Perez, V.J., Collareta, A., Underwood, C., Ward, D.J., Vullo, R., González-Barba, G., Maisch IV, H.M., Griffiths, M.L., Becker, M.A., Wood, J.J., and Shimada, K. (2024). White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae). Palaeontologia Electronica 27:a7.

Ryan, H.E., Travouillon, K.J., Milne, L.A., Martin, S.K., Thorn, K.M. and Whisson, C.S. (2024). A new Bothriembryon from the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, with insights on the age of Bothriembryon praecursor from Kangaroo Well, Northern Territory. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2323472.

2023

Pentland, A.H. and Poropat, S.F. (2023). A review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Gondwanan pterosaur record. Gondwana Research 119: 341–383.

Poropat, S.F., Mannion, P.D., Rigby, S.L., Duncan, R.J., Pentland, A.H., Bevitt, J.J., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A. (2023). A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs. Royal Society Open Science 10: 221618.

Downes, P.J., Jaques, A.L., Talavera, C., Griffin, W.L., Gain, S.E., Evans, N.J., Taylor, W.R. and Verrall, M. (2023). Perovskite geochronology and petrogenesis of the Neoproterozoic Mad Gap Yards ultramafic lamprophyre dykes, East Kimberley region, Western Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 178(4): 21.

Downes, P.J., Stocklmayer, V.S. and Stocklmayer, S. (2023). Rare mineral species from the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 24(2): 5–28.

Grguric, B.A., Downes, P.J., Ehling, A., Schmitt, R.T. (2023). The Donnybrook Goldfield, Donnybrook, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 24(1): 27–34.

Peters, C., Wang, Y., Vakil, V., Cramb, J., Dortch, J., Hocknull, S., Lawrence, R., Manne, T., Monks, C., Rössner, G.E., Ryan, H., Siversson, M., Ziegler, T., Louys, J., Price, G.J., Boivin, N. and Collins, M.J. (2023). Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years. Communications Earth & Environment 4: Article 438.

Sudholz, Z.J., Jaques, A.L., Yaxley, G.M., Taylor, W.R., Czarnota, K., Haynes, M.W., Frewer, L., Ramsay, R.R., Downes, P.J. and Cooper, S.A. (2023). Mapping the structure and metasomatic enrichment of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kimberley Craton, Western Australia. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24(9): p.e2023GC011040.

2022

Poropat, S.F., Frauenfelder, T.G., Mannion, P.D., Rigby, S.L., Pentland, A.H., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A. (2022). Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms. Royal Society Open Science 9: 220381.

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., White, M.A., Rigby, S.L., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T.H. and Elliott, D.A. (2022). New anhanguerian pterosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 46: 188–197.

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., White, M.A., Rigby, S.L., Bevitt, J.J., Duncan, R.J., Sloan, T., Elliott, R.A., Elliott, H.A., Elliott, J.A. and Elliott, D.A. (2021). The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41: e2038182.

Bazzi, M., Kear, B.P. and Siversson, M. (2022). Southern higher-latitude lamniform sharks track mid-Cretaceous environmental change. Gondwana Research 103: 362-370.

Downes, P.J., Grguric, B.A. and Deacon, G.L. (2022). Gold-bearing quartz reef from the Orient mine, Lake Austin, Western Australia: worth a king’s ransom? Australian Journal of Mineralogy 23(2): 61–68.

Grey, I.E., MacRae, C.M., Elliott, P., Mills, S.J. and Downes, P.J. (2022). Minyulite, KAl2F(PO4)2.4H2O: approval of revised formula and its stability in South Australian rock phosphate deposits. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 23(1): 21–26.

Siversson, M., Cederström, P. and Ryan, H.E. (2022). A new dallasiellid shark from the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Sweden. GFF 144: 118-125.

2021

Rigby, S.L., Poropat, S.F., Mannion, P.D., Pentland, A.H., Sloan, T., Rumbold, S.J., Webster, C.B. and Elliott, D.A. (2021). A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41: e2047991.

Poropat, S.F., White, M.A., Ziegler, T., Pentland, A.H., Rigby, S.L., Duncan, R.J., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A. (2021). A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 9: e11544.

2020

Poropat, S.F., Pentland, A.H., Duncan, R.J., Bevitt, J.J., Vickers-Rich, P. and Rich, T.H. (2020). First elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur (Ceratosauria: Noasauridae) from Australia—A cervical vertebra from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria. Gondwana Research 84: 284–295.

Stilwell, J.D., Langendam, A., Mays, C., Sutherland, L.J., Arillo, A., Bickel, D.J., De Silva, W.T., Pentland, A.H., Roghi, G., Price, G.D. and Cantrill, D.J. (2020). Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems. Scientific Reports 10: 5703.

White, M.A., Bell, P.R., Poropat, S.F., Pentland, A.H., Rigby, S.L., Cook, A.G., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A. (2020). New theropod remains and implications for megaraptorid diversity in the Winton Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous), Queensland, Australia. Royal Society Open Science 7: 191462.

Berrell, R.W., Boisvert, C., Trinajstic, K., Siversson, M., Alvarado-Ortega, J., Cavin, L., Salisbury, S.W. and Kemp, A. (2020). A review of Australia’s Mesozoic fishes, Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 44: 286-311.

Graham, I.T., Raffan, N., Bottrill, R., Duncan, D.McP., Birch, W.D., Downes, P.J., Stocklmayer, S.M. and Giuliani, G. (2020). Update on Australian sapphires. The Australian Gemmologist 27(4): 175–189.

2019

Murphy, C., Newbrey, M., Siversson, M. and Ehret, D. (2019). Centrum morphology, age, and growth of Cretalamna sp. (Lamniformes, Otodontidae), a shark, from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk Formation (Santonian to Campanian), Alabama. 80th Annual Meeting of ASB. SEBIOLOGISTS.

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., Tischler, T.R., Sloan, T., Elliott, R.A., Elliott, H.A., Elliott, J.A. and Elliott, D.A. (2019). Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia. Scientific Reports 9: 13454.

Pentland, A.H. and Poropat, S.F. (2019). Reappraisal of Mythunga camara Molnar & Thulborn, 2007 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueria) from the upper Albian Toolebuc Formation of Queensland, Australia. Cretaceous Research 93: 151–169.

Bevan, A.W., Downes, P.J., Henry, D.A., Verrall, M. and Haines, P.W. (2019). The Gove relict iron meteorite from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54(8): 1710–1719.

Downes, P.J., Grguric, B.A., Willing, M., Deacon, G.L., Verrall, M., Grey, I.E. and Mumme, G.W. (2019). Minerals of the Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Milgun Station, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 20(2): 17–36.

Grey, I.E., Mumme, W.G., Downes, P.J., Grguric, B.A. and Gable, R.W. (2019). Segelerite from the Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia. Hydrogen bonding and relationship to jahnsite. European Journal of Mineralogy 31(3): 465–471.

Siversson, M., Cook, T.D., Ryan, H.E., Watkins, D.K., Tatarnic, N.J., Downes, P.J. and Newbrey, M.G. (2019). Anacoracid sharks and calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy of the mid-Cretaceous ‘upper’ Gearle Siltstone and Haycock Marl in the lower Murchison River area, Western Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 43: 85-113.

Whisson, C.S. and Ryan, H.E. (2019). Review of the fossil record of the Australian land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Bothriembryon): new distributional and geological data. Records of the Western Australian Museum 34: 38-50.

2018

Guinot, G., Adnet, S., Shimada, K., Underwood, C.J., Siversson, M., Ward, D.J., Kriwet, J. and Cappetta, H. (2018). On the need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species. Zootaxa 4461: 118-126.

McLoughlin, S., Haig, D.W., Siversson, M. and Einarsson, E. (2018). Did mangrove communities exist in the Late Cretaceous of the Kristianstad Basin, Sweden? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 498: 99-114.

2017

Downes, P.J., Deacon, G.L., Grguric, B.A., Bevan, A.W.R., Blockley, J. and Verrall, M. (2017). Minerals of the Northampton lead-copper field, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 18(1): 35–50.

Jorgensen, G.C., Downes, P.J., Deacon, G.L. and Verrall, M. (2017). Wulfenite from the Penny West gold mine, near Youanmi: a new occurrence for Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 18(1): 23–34.

Kear, B.P., Fordyce, R.E., Hiller, N. and Siversson, M. (2017). A palaeobiogeographical synthesis of Australasian Mesozoic marine reptiles. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 42: 461-486.

Siversson, M. and Machalski, M. (2017). Late late Albian (Early Cretaceous) shark teeth from Annopol, Poland. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 41: 433-463.

Whisson, C., Kirkendale, L. and Siversson, M. (2017). The presumed extinct Bothriembryon whitleyi Iredale, 1939 remains elusive. The Malacological Society of Australasia Newsletter 163: 1-6.

Sciberras, M.J., Leverett, P., Williams, P.A., Schlüter, J., Malcherek, T., Welch, M.D., Downes, P.J., Hibbs, D.E. and Kampf, A.R. (2017). Structural and compositional variations of basic Cu (II) chlorides in the herbertsmithite and gillardite structure field. Mineralogical Magazine 81(1): 123–134.

2016

Downes, P.J., Dunkley, D.J., Fletcher, I.R., McNaughton, N.J., Rasmussen, B., Jaques, A.L., Verrall, M. and Sweetapple, M.T. (2016). Zirconolite, zircon and monazite-(Ce) U-Th-Pb age constraints on the emplacement, deformation and alteration history of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, Halls Creek Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology 110: 199–222.

Marshall, D., Downes, P.J., Ellis, S., Greene, R., Loughrey, L. and Jones, P. (2016). Pressure–temperature–fluid constraints for the Poona Emerald Deposits, Western Australia: Fluid inclusion and stable isotope studies. Minerals 6(4): 130.

Siversson, M., Cook, T.D., Cederström, P. and Ryan, H.E. (2016). Early Campanian (Late Cretaceous) squatiniform and synechodontiform selachians from the Åsen locality, Kristianstad Basin, Sweden. In Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. and Vajda, V. (eds). Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434: 251–275.

Sachs, S., Lindgren, J. and Siversson, M. (2016). A partial plesiosaurian braincase from the Upper Cretaceous of Sweden. In Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. and Vajda, V. (eds). Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434: 293–301.