Technical Articles
Wroe, S., Field, J., Fullagar, R. & LS Jermiin 2004. Megafaunal
extinction in the Late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis.
Alcheringa (in press).
Johnson, C., and Wroe, S. (2003). Causes
of extinctions of vertebrates during the Holocene of mainland Australia:
arrival of the dingo or human impact? The Holocene, 13:
109-116.
Wroe, S., Crowther, M., Dortch, J., and Chong, J. (2003). The
size of the largest marsupial and why it matters. Proceedings of
the Royal Society London B (Suppl.), S1-S3.
Wroe, S. 2003. Australian
marsupial carnivores: an overview of recent advances in palaeontology.
Pp. 102-123. In M. Jones, C. Dickman, and M. Archer (eds), Predators
with Pouches: the Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials, CSIRO publishing:
Melbourne.
Wroe, S. (2002) A review of terrestrial
mammalian and reptilian carnivore ecology in Australian fossil faunas,
and factors influencing their diversity: the myth of reptilian domination
and its broader ramifications. Australian Journal of Zoology,
50:1-24
Wroe, S., and Musser, A. (2001). The
skull of Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia). Australian
Journal of Zoology, 49: 487-514.
Wroe, S. (2001). Maximucinus
muirheadae, gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae,
Marsupialia) , from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland,
with estimates of body weights for fossil thylacinids. Australian
Journal of Zoology, 49: 603-614.
Krajewski, C., Wroe, S.,
and Westerman, M. (2000). Molecular
evidence for the pattern and timing of cladogenesis in dasyurid marsupials.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130: 375-404.
Wroe, S., Ebach, M.,
Ahyong, S., Muizon, C. de, and Muirhead, J. (2000). Cladistic
analysis of dasyuromorphian (Marsupialia) phylogeny using cranial and
dental features. Journal of Mammalogy, 81 (4): 1008-1024.
Wroe, S., Myers, T.
J., Wells, R. T., and Gillespie, A. (1999). Estimating
the weight of the Pleistocene Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex:
Thylacoleonidae): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator
and hypotheses of impoverishment of Australian marsupial carnivore faunas.
Australian Journal of Zoology, 47: 489-498.
Godthelp, H., Wroe, S.,
and Archer, M. (1999). A new marsupial
from the early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna of Murgon, Southeastern Queensland:
a prototypical Australian marsupial? Journal of Mammalian Evolution,
6: 289-313.
Wroe, S. (1999). The
geologically oldest dasyurid (Marsupialia), from the middle Miocene of
Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Palaeontology, 42:
501-527.
Wroe, S., Brammall,
J., and Cooke, B. N. (1998). The
skull of Ekaltadeta ima (Marsupialia: Hypsiprymnodontidae?): An
analysis of some cranial features among marsupials and a re-investigation
of propleopine phylogeny, with notes on the inference of carnivory in
mammals. Journal of Paleontology, 72: 738-751.
Wroe, S. (1998). A
new genus and species of 'bone-cracking' dasyurid (Marsupialia) from the
Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa,
22: 277-284
Muirhead, J. and Wroe, S.
(1998). A new genus and species, Badjcinus
turnbulli gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), from the late
Oligocene of Riversleigh, northern Australia, and an investigation of
thylacinid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18:
612-626.
Wroe, S. (1997). A
reexamination of proposed morphology-based synapomorphies for the families
of Dasyuromorphia (Marsupialia): Part I, Dasyuridae. Journal of
Mammalian Evolution, 4: 19-52.
Wroe, S. (1997). Mayigriphus
orbus gen. et sp. nov., a Miocene dasyuromorphian
from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland
Museum, 41: 439-448.
Wroe, S. (1996). Muribacinus
gadiyuli (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia),
a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern
Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae. Journal
of Paleontology, 70: 1032-1044
Wroe, S. (1996). An investigation
of phylogeny in the giant extinct rat-kangaroo, Ekaltadeta ima
(Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology,
70: 681-690.
Wroe, S., and Archer, M. 1995. Extraordinary
diphyodonty-related change in dental function for a tooth of the extinct
marsupial Ekaltadeta ima ( (Propleopinae, Hypsiprymndontidae).
Archives of Oral Biology, 40: 597-603.
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