> Can anyone direct me to references about Australian avian
> palaeontology?
Please find below a 1) list of the leading Palaentological journal, 2) plus a
collection of further readings. Please let me know if you need more information
about sourcing these records.
Tim
1)
Alchering; : an Australasian journal of palaeontology.
[Sydney, Association of Australasian Palaeontologists] 1975-
IS: 0311-5518
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Palaentology.
[Sydney : Dept. of Mines,
IS: 0077-8699 0155-5545 0369-4003
Nomen nudum / Specialist Group in Palaeontology & Biostratigraphy, Geological
Society of Australia.
Sydney : The Group,
0159-818X
Palaeontological papers / Queensland Department of Mines, Geological Survey of
Queensland.
Brisbane : Government Printer, 1965-
0481-3294
Palaeontological bulletin / Dept. of Home Affairs.
Melbourne : Dept. of Home Affairs.
1038-7129
Association of Australasian Palaeontologists..
Circular / Association of Australasian Palaeontologists.
Sydney : The Association, [1974]-
Australasian Palaeontological Group..
Circular / Australasian Palaeontological Group.
Sydney : The Group, [1974-1974].
Contributions to the palaeontology of South Australia.
Adelaide : Government Printer, 1893-
2)
Evolution, biogeography and palaeoecology of the Ornithorhynchidae
AU: Musser-AM (University-of-New-South-Wales-School-of-Biological-Science)
SO: Australian mammalogy, 1998-06, 20 (2), ISSN 03100049, p147-162, 2 tables, 3
figs, refs..
PY: 1998
AB: A review is presented of the current understanding of the evolution of the
ancient mammalian monotreme family Ornithorhynchidae of which the only extant
member is the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. To date, analysis of the
paleontological record has focused on the distinctive ornithorhynchid
dentition, which was probably functional throughout life. Comparison of a
complete ornithorhynchid skull recovered from Miocene deposits at Riversleigh
QLD with that of the living O. anatinus answers some of the morphological
questions posed by this enigmatic group while raising others. A discussion of
the biogeography and paleoecology of the family examines possible reasons for
reduction in population distributions. The platypus is currently protected.
Although not threatened, its conservation status requires consideration in
light of increasing pressures from pollution, land degradation and
unpredictable climate change on its natural habitat in the eastern waterways.
TI: Refugial vertebrates from the Miocene rainforests of Western Australia:
where are they?
AU: Archer-M
SO: Gondwanan heritage: past, present and future of the Western Australian
biota: Hopper, SD (ed); Chappill, J (ed); Harvey, M (ed); George, A (ed):
Chipping Norton NSW, Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1996: p 100-103: ISBN 0949324663.
PY: 1996
DT: Monograph-; Chapter-
AB: Persistence of Gondwanan wet forest refugia in eastern Australia and New
Guinea has enabled these areas to retain descendants of many lineages,
particularly mammals and birds, well-represented in Australia's Oligo-Miocene
forest assemblages. None of these archaic lineages, however, is represented in
the modern wet forest biotas of Western Australia. Had the biota of the wet
forests of Western Australia maintained continuity with the biotas of the
Tertiary, they might be expected to have retained representatives of many
lineages such as petaurids, acrobatids, logrunners and lyrebirds common in the
wet forests of eastern Australia. That they do not may be because during the
Pleistocene the high rainfall zone of the south west was squeezed to or off the
edge of the continent with resultant extinction of the ancient vertebrate
lineages they contained. (Au, AM)
TI: A brief history of palaeological investigations at the Lancefield
megafaunal site, Victoria
AU: Van-Huet-S
SO: Victorian naturalist: Aug 1993, 110(4): 154-159.
PY: 1993
DT: Journal-article
AB: The Lancefield Quaternary megafaunal site is currently acknowledged as
being of major palaeontological significance because it was the third
megafaunal locality to be discovered in Australia and also provided the first
historical record for the extinct giant bird Genyornis on the Australian
continent. The article discusses the investigation of three separate sites so
far located at Lancefield: the Classic, located in 1974, the South, located in
1983, and Maynes site, first discovered in 1843 and subsequently re-located in
1991. A list of the 24 species of animals found in the deposits shows their
habitat, feeding preference and whether they are now extinct, common, or rare.
(Au, MP)
TI: Ecology of Livistona australis (R.Br) Martius (Arecaceae) at its southern
limit, south eastern Australia: part I, distribution and genetic variation
AU: Orscheg-CK; Parsons-RF
SO: Mooreana: journal of the palmetum: Apr 1996, 6(1): 8-17.
PY: 1996
DT: Journal-article
AB: The distribution of the Cabbage Palm, Livistona australis, shows a
southernmost, outlying stand near Orbost, Victoria, then a disjunction of 180km
to small groups of palms north of Bega, New South Wales, and a further 150 km
to the edge of the main species area at Durras, north of Bateman:s Bay.
Insufficient rainfall and low temperatures may be involved in excluding
Livistona from some intervening areas. Allozyme analysis showed that both the
Durras and Orbost stands were monomorphic at all loci surveyed. Seed dispersal
can occur via water, birds and flying foxes. The main features of the
distribution may be a legacy of more tropical palaeoclimates, but there are
indications that the species may currently be spreading. (Au, AM)
TI: Fossil avifaunas from Old Neck and Native Island, Stewart Island -
Polynesian middens or natural sites?
AU: Worthy,-T-H (Palaeofaunal-Surveys)
SO: Records of the Canterbury Museum, Dec 1998; 12(2):49-82.
SP: Archaeology; Birds
AB: Describes large fossil avifaunas from Old Neck and Native Island,
concluding that the Old Neck fauna was accumulated mainly by Maori during
moa-hunting times, while the fauna from Native Island is mainly of natural
origin. Identifies differing taphonomy and radiocarbon dates, significant
differences in the species composition and frequency of occurrence at the
sites, and a greater proportion of bones broken at Old Neck, particularly
greenstick fractures, which were absent at Native Island. Notes the former
existence on Stewart Island of two birds in addition to those known
historically, the merganser (Mergus australis) and the slender moa (Dinornis
struthoides).
TI: Final Report to the Research and Exploration Committee of the National
Geographic Society on The Torres Strait Research Project Part IIB: July-October
1985. Archaeological & palaeoenvironmental investigations in Western Torres
Strait, Northern Australia
AU: Barham-A-J; Harris-David-R
PU: London: The University College
PG: 114 p.
PD: September 1987
MA: p. 2 Torres Strait, showing the location of the four islands - Badu, Moa,
Mabuiag and Saibai; p. 6 Sketch map of Mabuiag Island; p. 8 East-coast lowland
of Mabuiag Island; p.11 Archaeological survey of the Gumu area, Mabuiag Island;
p.37 Moa Island: location of swamps and core sites; p.41 Thomas Swamp, Moa
Island: location of core sites, pollen traps and adjacent vegetation; p.65
Wester Saibai Island showing location of coring sites, canals and major
archaeological sites
FM: Report
AB: Detailed accounts of archaeological investigations at Mabuiag (Gumu area),
St Pauls (Thomas Swamp), Badu (Grize & phragmites swamps) & Saibai (Including
at Woam). Includes middens on Saibai & Mabuiag & fish traps on Mabuiag.
Appendix I is an avifaunal listing for Saibai Island. The Vegetation on the 4
Islands is also discussed.
DN: d00671
TI: Plate tectonics and Australasian palaeobiogeography: The complex
biogeographic relations of the region reflect its geologic history
AU: Raven-PH; Axelrod-DI
SO: Science 176: 1379-1386, 30 Jun, 1972.
PY: 1972
DT: Text-;
NT: 174 ref. English
GR: Great-Barrier-Reef; Coral-Sea; Pacific-Ocean; Areas-outside-200-mile-limit;
CL: General-scholarly-items;
LI: Scholarly-overview;
DEMJ: Plate-tectonics; Biogeography-; Palaeontology-; Geographical-distribution;
DEMN: Gondwanaland-; Geosynclines-; Mesozoic-; Paleozoic-; Sea-floor-spreading;
Faulting-; Cretaceous-; Eocene-; Oligocene-; Miocene-archipelagos;
Podocarpaceae-; Aravcariaceae-; Araliaceae-; Myrsinaceae-; Proteaceae-;
Winteraceae-; Atherospermataceae-; Myrtaceae-; Cruciferae-; Pedaliaceae-;
Liliaceae-; Epacridaceae-; Umbelliferae-; Hydrocotyloideae-; Insects-;
Peloridiidae-; Belidae-; Plecoptera-; Carabidae-Migadopinae; Onychophora-;
Bryophytes-; Marsupials-; Frogs-; Turtles-; Ratite-birds; Lungfishes-;
Lizards-; Snakes-; Monotremes-; Proteeae-; Wallaces-line;
DN: 07293
TI: Cape Otway
ST: Coast of secrets
PU: Pascoe Publishing
AU: Pascoe-Bruce; Harwood-Lyn;
PR: $9.00
ISBN: 094708732X
DP: 01 Oct 1997
AB: Guide to the Victorian Otway region, giving an overview of the area's
history and providing information about topics such as vegetation, wildlife,
palaeontology and notable features such as the two lighthouses. Includes
details of tourist accommodation and activities, lists of birds, plants and
animals seen at Cape Otway and a bibliography.
AV: IN-PRINT
DS: Australian Book Group Pty Ltd ---- Nationally
TI: A budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus from the Pliocene of Riversleigh,
north-western Queensland
AU: Boles-WE
SO: Emu: Mar 1998, 98 (1): 32-35: ISSN 0158-4198.
PY: 1998
DT: Journal-article
AB: Three carpometacarpi and a tarsometatarsus of a small parrot, recovered
from the Early Pliocene-aged deposits at Rackham's Roost Site, Riversleigh,
north-western Queensland, are indistinguishable from those of the living
budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus, and are referred to this species. The
presence of this species suggests that the palaeoenvironment at Riversleigh
during the Pliocene was open woodland, similar to the habitat occurring there
today. (Au)
TI: Parenthood, Dino-style
AU: Lemonick-Michael
JT: Time-Australia
CI: 8 January 1996 (n.2)
PG: 48
AB: For decades a major controversy among palaeontologists has been whether
meat-eating dinosaurs are more closely related to birds than to the
plant-eaters. The discovery in Mongolia of a fossil of a dinosaur sitting on a
nest, guarding its eggs, strongly suggests dinosaurs probably acted like birds,
and adds considerably to the theory of a link with birds.
[Photographs].
DE: DINOSAURS-
PY: 1996
PD: 199601
IS: 0818-0628
Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria; or Figures and Descriptions of
Victorian Organic Remains Decade 1
AU: MCCOY-F
SE: Geological Survey of Victoria, Special Report; (2)
IM: Melbourne: Geological Survey of Victoria, 1874
PY: 1874
COLL: 53p.: 10 illus., 1 document.
(New_Zealand and islands)
TI: No moa in old Aotearoa
AU: Keene,-Howard
SO: The Press, 25 Mar 2000; Sup.P.4; 43cm.
SP: Archaeology; Maori-archaeology; Birds
AB: Reports on new theories put forward by palaeobiologist Richard Holdaway and
archaeologist Chris Jacomb which challenge the long held belief that moa slowly
became extinct, and claim they declined rapidly within the first 100 years of
human habitation in NZ.
TI: Moa's ark: the natural world of the moa
AU: Brewster,-Barney
SO: Forest and Bird, May 1986; 17(2):25-28.
SP: Birds
AB: Reviews the natural history of the extinct flightless birds, partly based
on fieldwork by Dr Phil Millener, an avian palaeontologist.
TI: Fossil avifaunas from Old Neck and Native Island, Stewart Island -
Polynesian middens or natural sites?
AU: Worthy,-T-H (Palaeofaunal-Surveys)
SO: Records of the Canterbury Museum, Dec 1998; 12(2):49-82.
SP: Archaeology; Birds
AB: Describes large fossil avifaunas from Old Neck and Native Island,
concluding that the Old Neck fauna was accumulated mainly by Maori during
moa-hunting times, while the fauna from Native Island is mainly of natural
origin. Identifies differing taphonomy and radiocarbon dates, significant
differences in the species composition and frequency of occurrence at the
sites, and a greater proportion of bones broken at Old Neck, particularly
greenstick fractures, which were absent at Native Island. Notes the former
existence on Stewart Island of two birds in addition to those known
historically, the merganser (Mergus australis) and the slender moa (Dinornis
struthoides).
TI: A review of fossil bird bones from loess deposits in eastern South Island,
New Zealand
AU: Worthy,-T-H
SO: Records of the Canterbury Museum, May 1993; 10(7):95-106.
SP: Archaeology; Birds; Canterbury
AB: Identifies fossil moa bones found in deposits from 65 Canterbury locations.
Assesses the data in relation to the palaeoecological hypotheses of Worthy
(1990).
TI: Final Report to the Research and Exploration Committee of the National
Geographic Society on The Torres Strait Research Project Part IIB: July-October
1985. Archaeological & palaeoenvironmental investigations in Western Torres
Strait, Northern Australia
AU: Barham-A-J; Harris-David-R
PU: London: The University College
PG: 114 p.
PD: September 1987
MA: p. 2 Torres Strait, showing the location of the four islands - Badu, Moa,
Mabuiag and Saibai; p. 6 Sketch map of Mabuiag Island; p. 8 East-coast lowland
of Mabuiag Island; p.11 Archaeological survey of the Gumu area, Mabuiag Island;
p.37 Moa Island: location of swamps and core sites; p.41 Thomas Swamp, Moa
Island: location of core sites, pollen traps and adjacent vegetation; p.65
Wester Saibai Island showing location of coring sites, canals and major
archaeological sites
FM: Report
AB: Detailed accounts of archaeological investigations at Mabuiag (Gumu area),
St Pauls (Thomas Swamp), Badu (Grize & phragmites swamps) & Saibai (Including
at Woam). Includes middens on Saibai & Mabuiag & fish traps on Mabuiag.
Appendix I is an avifaunal listing for Saibai Island. The Vegetation on the 4
Islands is also discussed.
DN: d00671
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