Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Fauna

 

Amphibians

Amphibian Origins - Emerging onto a Tangled Bank

Animal Body Fossil in Pre-Marinoan Limestone from South Australia (Possible?)

Ants in Tropical Savannas

Arid Zone Fauna

Aquatic Food Webs in Turbid Arid-Zone Rivers

Arcadia Formation

Archaean

Australian Dinosaurs

Australian Local Faunas

Australian Mammals

Australian rodents

Evolution of Avian Reproductive Behaviour - Preserved Avian Ovarian Follicles

Bandicoots

Bats

Birds

Blina Shale

Brine-shrimp

Bullockornis

Carpoids

Cephalochordates - Lancelets

Cephalopods

Chengjiang Fossil Site - China

Brachiopods

Tethys Ocean - Valley of Whales

Conodonts

Cooper Creek Food Web

Cretaceous - late, Dinosaurs

Crocodiles see Riversleigh Crocodiles

Dasyurids see Riversleigh Dasyurids

Deuterostome Relationships

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Evolution

Dinosaur Ants

Dinosaurs After the Mesozoic

Dinosaurs - Sauropod Necks

Dinosaur Biology - General Anatomy

Dinosaur Biology - Skin, Feathers and Colour

Dinosaur Biology - Respiration and Circulation

Dinosaur Biology - Digestive Tract

Dinosaur Biology - Senses

Dinosaur Biology - Pathologies

Dinosaurs - Late Cretaceous

Diprotodontoids see Riversleigh Diprotodontoids

Dromornithidae

Dromaeosauridae

End Triassic Mass Extinction - hydrogen sulphide poisoning

Earliest Known Terrestrial Forelimbs - Contrasting Developmental trajectories

Early Chordates

Ediacaran Fauna (connection with Acraman Impact Zone)

Ediacaran Life on Land

Ediacaran Life on Land - a critique

Ediacaran Life on Land - Critique2

Ediacaran-Type Fossils in Sediments from the Cambrian

Ektopodontids see Riversleigh Ektopodontids

Emu Bay Fossils

End-Permian Mass Extinction - climatic and Biotic Upheavals

ERVs

Eurypterid see Gogo Formation Extant Phylogenetic Bracket (EPB)

Extinction events - Periodicity

Feathertail Possums see Riversleigh Feathertail Possums

Fish

Fish Origins

Fish of the Tethys Ocean

Fish to Amphibians

Fossil Eyes

Fossil Faunas - Australian Local Faunas

Fossil Sites

Genyornis newtoni Extinction in the Pleistocene - Human Impact on the Australian Megafauna

Lake Eyre Fauna

Haikouichthys and Related Forms

Hawkesbury Sandstone

Hyporheos

Insects Jurassic Fish Faunas of Australia

Kakadu - Small Animals & Fire

Kangaroos

Kangaroos - adapting to a drying land - embryonic diapause

Kangaroos - adapting to a drying land - forestomach fermentation

Kangaroos - adapting to a drying land - hopping gait

Kangaroos - Hearing and Vision

Kangaroos - large species

Koalas

Kockatea Shale

Leigh Creek Coal Measures

Life After Snowball Earth

Mammals

Mammals as indicators of palaeohabitats

Marsupials see Stripe-faced dunnart

Marsupial Megafauna Extinction

Marsupial vs Placental

Marsupial Origins

Marsupial Origins - An alternative View

Marsupial Reproductive Pattern Classification

Marusek Hypothesis - End Permian mass extinction

Mass Extinctions

Late Permian Mass Extinction - Recovery Impeded by Multiple Greenhouse Crises in the Early Triassic

Ostracods fossils, Lake George End-Permian Mass Extinction - climatic and Biotic Upheavals

Photic Zone Euxinia - Their role in Exceptional Preservation of Fossils Revealed by Biomarkers: An Organic Chemical Perspective

Permian Mass Extinctions

Permian Mass Extinction - Marusek Hypothesis

Permian-Triassic Superanoxic Event - The Preference of Photic Zone Euxinia

Permian-Triassic Crisis - 2 Pulses of Extinction

Pikaia

Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Geology, South Australia - Ocean Basin formation, Seawater Chemistry & Organic Evolution

Prosauropods

Megafauna

Monotremes

Newell's Hypothesis

Ornithischia

Rats

Red Kangaroo

Reproductive strategy for an arid, erratic climate

Reptiles

Riversleigh Arthropods

Riversleigh Fossil Site

Riversleigh Fossil Site Fossils

Riversleigh Frogs

Riversleigh Kangaroos

Riversleigh Koalas

Scorpions

Shield shrimps

Southern Ocean plankton (now classified as protists)

Snake Origins

Soom Shale - South Africa - Soom Shale Biota

Spiders

Sponges (Porifera) - Living Metazoans from the Neoproterozoic, Biomineralisation and the Concept of Their Evolutionary Success

Stromatolites

Stromatoporoid

Palaeozoic Stromatoporoids - Their Taxonomy, Mineralogy and Applications in Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironmental Analysis

Spinifex Hopping-mouse

Stygobites

Talbragar Fish Beds

Talbragar Fish Beds - Insects

Talbragar Fish Beds - Aquatic Invertebrates

Talbragar Fish Faunas - Late Jurassic

Theropods

Thingodontans (Yalkaparidontids)

Tropical Savannas-Small Mammals & Fire

Tunicates - Urochordates

Tyrannosaurus rex

Vertebrates - Cambrian

Vertebrates - Earliest

Vertebrate Origins & Development - paedomorphosis

Vetulicolians and Yunnanozoons

Wianamatta Group

Wildlife of the National Parks

Yookamurra & Scotia, Earth Sanctuaries in the mallee

Wombats

Xiaotingia zhengi - an Archaeopteryx-like feathered dinosaur that has been proposed to replace Archaeopteryx at the base of the bird line

Cunning Crows

Sources & Further reading

Links

• Australian Age of Dinosaurs
• The Age of the Megafauna
• Australian Beasts