Helen Ryan
Collections Manager (Palaeontology)
Helen has been with Earth and Planetary Sciences since 2009.
In addition to looking after the palaeontological collection, other duties include managing the associated databases, preparing fossil specimens, organising inter-institutional loans and managing fieldwork logistics.
Exhibitions and Public Programs
Delivers public talks on fossils from Western Australia.
Selected Publications
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.
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.
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 48: 402–417.
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: 438.
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.
Whisson, C. and Ryan, H. (2019). Review of the fossil record of the Australian land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Bothriembryontidae): new distributional and geological data. Records of the Western Australian Museum 34: 38–50.
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 43: 85-113
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. pp 251-275. Geological Society: London.
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