Other Research
Other areas of research that our lab is interested in include:
- Evolution of Australian Cretaceous fishes
- Evolution of Australian pterosaurs
- Evolution of Australian plesiosaurs
- Evolution of New Zealand's Cenozoic fauna
- Vertebrate taphonomy and decay
- Palaeopathology in fossil archosaurs
- Geology of Australian Cretaceous dinosaur localities
- Mesozoic and Cenozoic palaeoclimatology
Relevant publications
Roberts, E.M., O’Connor, P.M., Clarke, J.A., Slotznick, S.P., Placzek, C.J., Tobin, T.S., Hannaford, C., Orr, T., Jinnah, Z.A., Cleason, K.M., Salisbury, S., Kirschvink, J.L., Pirrie, D. and Lamanna, M.C. 2022. New age constraints support a K/Pg boundary interval on Vega Island, Antarctica: implications for latest Cretaceous vertebrates and paleoenvironments. Geological Society of America, Bullentin. 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B36422.1
Worthy, T.H., Scofield, R.P., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J., De Pietri, V.L., Blokland, J.C. and Archer, M. 2022. A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand. Geobios. 70 87–107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.08.002
Richards, T.M., Stumkat, P.E., Salisbury, S.W., 2021. A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, North West Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1946068, 1–14.
Miller, C., O’Gorman, J.P., Salisbury, S.W., Coria, R.A., Roberts, E., O’Connor, P.M., Reguero, M.A. and Lamanna, M.C. 2020. A new plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) specimen from the Upper Cretaceous of West Antarctica, with comments on the ontogeny and morphological diversity of the elasmosaurid pelvic girdle. Annals of Carnegie Museum. 86 (2). 93–106. PDF
Berrell, R.W., Boisvert, C.A., 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, DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2019.1701078.
Lamanna, M.C., Case, J.A., Arbour, V.M., Ely, R.C., Salisbury, S.W., Clarke, J.A., Malinzak, D.E., West, A.R. and O'Connor, P.M. 2019. Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Advances in Polar Science.
Fletcher, T., Moss, P. and Salisbury, S.W. 2018. Palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. Peer J. e5513.
Syme, C.E. and Salisbury, S.W. 2018. Taphonomy of Isisfordia duncani specimens from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) portion of the Winton Formation, Isisford, central-west Queensland. Royal Society Open Science. Open Acces
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. and 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). e0128871.
Tucker, R.T., Roberts, E.M., Darlington, V. and Salisbury, S.W. 2017. Investigating the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments for a suite of newly discovered mid-Cretaceous vertebrate fossil-localities in the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 358, 210–229. PDF
Syme, C.E., Welsh, K.J., Roberts, E.M. and Salisbury, S.W. 2016. Depositional environment of the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) Winton Formation at Isisford, central-western Queensland, inferred from sandstone concretions. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86, 1067–1082.
Herne, M.C., Tait, A.M. and Salisbury, S.W. 2016. Sedimentological reappraisal of the Leaellynasaura amicagraphica (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) holotype locality in the Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia with taphonomic implications for the taxon; pp. 1–27 in Khosla, A. and Lucus, S.G. (eds.), Cretaceous Period: biotic diversity and biogeography. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 71.
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. pdf
Fletcher, T.L., Moss, P.T. and Salisbury, S.W. 2015. Climate variability using wood growth indices of Protophyllocladoxylon owensii from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Australia: An indication of climate cyclicity? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 417, 35–43 pdf
Berrell, R.W., Alvarado-Ortega, J., Yabumoto, Y. and Salisbury, S.W. 2014. First record of the ichthyodectiform fish Cladocyclus from eastern Gondwana: an articulated skeleton from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59, 903–920. pdf
Syme, C.E. and Salisbury, S.W. 2014. Patterns of aquatic decay and disarticulation in juvenile Indo-Pacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), and implications for the taphonomic interpretation of fossil crocodyliform material. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 421, 108–123. pdf
Fletcher, T.L., Cantrill, D.J., Moss, P.T. and Salisbury, S.W., 2014. A new species of Protophyllocladoxylon from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia. Review of Palaeobotany of Palynology 208, 43–49. pdf
Fletcher, T.L., Greenwood, D.R., Moss, P.T. and Salisbury, S.W. 2014. Palaeoclimate of the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia: new observations based on CLAMP and Bioclimatic Analysis. Palaios. 29, 121–128.pdf
Fletcher, T. L. and Salisbury. S.W. 2014. Probable oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) tunnels and faecal pellets in silicified wood from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 38, xxx–xxx pdf
Fletcher, T.L., Moss, P.T. and Salisbury, S.W. 2014. Foliar physiognomic climate estimates for the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) Lark Quarry fossil flora, central-western Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 61, 575–582. pdf
Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J. and Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are not phyletic dwarves. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Series A [Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution], 63–80. pdf
Tucker, R.T., Roberts, E.M., Hu,Y., Kemp, A.I.S. and Salisbury. S.W. 2013. Detrital zircon age constraints for the Winton Formation, Queensland: contextualizing Australia's Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas. Gondwana Research. 24(2), 767–779 pdf
Fletcher, T. and Salisbury, S.W. 2010. New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30(6), 1747–1759. pdf
Wolff, E.D.S., Salisbury, S.W., Horner, J.R. and Varricchio, D.J. 2009. Common avian infection plagued the tyrant dinosaurs. PLoS ONE, 4(9), e7288. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0007288 pdf
Buchy, M.-C., Frey, E. & Salisbury, S. W. 2006. Internal cranial anatomy of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): evidence for a functional secondary palate. Lethaia, 39, 290-303. pdf
Buchy, M.-C. Frey, E., Salisbury, S. W., Stinnesbeck, W. López-Oliva, J. G. and Götte, M. 2006. An unusual pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of northeastern Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 240 (2), 241-270. Wroe, S., Myers, T., Seebacher, F., Kear, B., Gillespie, A., Crowther, M. and Salisbury, S.W. 2003. An alternative method for predicting body mass: the case of the Pleistocene marsupial lion. Paleobiology, 29 (3), 401–411. pdf