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2024

Sternes, P.C., Jambura, P.L., Türtscher, J., Kriwet, J., Siversson, M., Feichtinger, I., Naylor, G.J.P., Summers, A.P., Maisey, J.G., Tomita, T., Moyer, J.K., Higham, T.E., da Silva, J.Paulo.C.B., Bornatowski, H., Long, D.J., Perez, V.J., Collareta, A., Underwood, C., Ward, D.J., Vullo, R., González-Barba, G., Maisch IV, H.M., Griffiths, M.L., Becker, M.A., Wood, J.J., and Shimada, K. (2024). White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae). Palaeontologia Electronica 27:a7.

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: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2323472.

2023

Downes, P.J., Jaques, A.L., Talavera, C., Griffin, W.L., Gain, S.E., Evans, N.J., Taylor, W.R. and Verrall, M. (2023). Perovskite geochronology and petrogenesis of the Neoproterozoic Mad Gap Yards ultramafic lamprophyre dykes, East Kimberley region, Western Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 178(4): 21.

Downes, P.J., Stocklmayer, V.S. and Stocklmayer, S. (2023). Rare mineral species from the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 24(2): 5–28.

Grguric, B.A., Downes, P.J., Ehling, A., Schmitt, R.T. (2023). The Donnybrook Goldfield, Donnybrook, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 24(1): 27–34.

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: Article 438.

Sudholz, Z.J., Jaques, A.L., Yaxley, G.M., Taylor, W.R., Czarnota, K., Haynes, M.W., Frewer, L., Ramsay, R.R., Downes, P.J. and Cooper, S.A. (2023). Mapping the structure and metasomatic enrichment of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kimberley Craton, Western Australia. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24(9): p.e2023GC011040.

2022

Bazzi, M., Kear, B.P. and Siversson, M. (2022). Southern higher-latitude lamniform sharks track mid-Cretaceous environmental change. Gondwana Research 103: 362-370.

Downes, P.J., Grguric, B.A. and Deacon, G.L. (2022). Gold-bearing quartz reef from the Orient mine, Lake Austin, Western Australia: worth a king’s ransom? Australian Journal of Mineralogy 23(2): 61–68.

Grey, I.E., MacRae, C.M., Elliott, P., Mills, S.J. and Downes, P.J. (2022). Minyulite, KAl2F(PO4)2.4H2O: approval of revised formula and its stability in South Australian rock phosphate deposits. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 23(1): 21–26.

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.

2020

Berrell, R.W., Boisvert, C., 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 44: 286-311.

Graham, I.T., Raffan, N., Bottrill, R., Duncan, D.McP., Birch, W.D., Downes, P.J., Stocklmayer, S.M. and Giuliani, G. (2020). Update on Australian sapphires. The Australian Gemmologist 27(4): 175–189.

2019

Bevan, A.W., Downes, P.J., Henry, D.A., Verrall, M. and Haines, P.W. (2019). The Gove relict iron meteorite from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54(8): 1710–1719.

Downes, P.J., Grguric, B.A., Willing, M., Deacon, G.L., Verrall, M., Grey, I.E. and Mumme, G.W. (2019). Minerals of the Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Milgun Station, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 20(2): 17–36.

Grey, I.E., Mumme, W.G., Downes, P.J., Grguric, B.A. and Gable, R.W. (2019). Segelerite from the Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia. Hydrogen bonding and relationship to jahnsite. European Journal of Mineralogy 31(3): 465–471.

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: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 43: 85-113.

Whisson, C.S. and Ryan, H.E. (2019). Review of the fossil record of the Australian land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Bothriembryon): new distributional and geological data. Records of the Western Australian Museum 34: 38-50.

2018

Guinot, G., Adnet, S., Shimada, K., Underwood, C.J., Siversson, M., Ward, D.J., Kriwet, J. and Cappetta, H. (2018). On the need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species. Zootaxa 4461: 118-126.

McLoughlin, S., Haig, D.W., Siversson, M. and Einarsson, E. (2018). Did mangrove communities exist in the Late Cretaceous of the Kristianstad Basin, Sweden? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 498: 99-114.

2017

Downes, P.J., Deacon, G.L., Grguric, B.A., Bevan, A.W.R., Blockley, J. and Verrall, M. (2017). Minerals of the Northampton lead-copper field, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 18(1): 35–50.

Jorgensen, G.C., Downes, P.J., Deacon, G.L. and Verrall, M. (2017). Wulfenite from the Penny West gold mine, near Youanmi: a new occurrence for Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 18(1): 23–34.

Kear, B.P., Fordyce, R.E., Hiller, N. and Siversson, M. (2017). A palaeobiogeographical synthesis of Australasian Mesozoic marine reptiles. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 42: 461-486.

Siversson, M. and Machalski, M. (2017). Late late Albian (Early Cretaceous) shark teeth from Annopol, Poland. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 41: 433-463.

Whisson, C., Kirkendale, L. and Siversson, M. (2017). The presumed extinct Bothriembryon whitleyi Iredale, 1939 remains elusive. The Malacological Society of Australasia Newsletter 163: 1-6.

Sciberras, M.J., Leverett, P., Williams, P.A., Schlüter, J., Malcherek, T., Welch, M.D., Downes, P.J., Hibbs, D.E. and Kampf, A.R. (2017). Structural and compositional variations of basic Cu (II) chlorides in the herbertsmithite and gillardite structure field. Mineralogical Magazine 81(1): 123–134.

2016

Downes, P.J., Dunkley, D.J., Fletcher, I.R., McNaughton, N.J., Rasmussen, B., Jaques, A.L., Verrall, M. and Sweetapple, M.T. (2016). Zirconolite, zircon and monazite-(Ce) U-Th-Pb age constraints on the emplacement, deformation and alteration history of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, Halls Creek Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology 110: 199–222.

Marshall, D., Downes, P.J., Ellis, S., Greene, R., Loughrey, L. and Jones, P. (2016). Pressure–temperature–fluid constraints for the Poona Emerald Deposits, Western Australia: Fluid inclusion and stable isotope studies. Minerals 6(4): 130.

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. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434: 251–275.

Sachs, S., Lindgren, J. and Siversson, M. (2016). A partial plesiosaurian braincase from the Upper Cretaceous of Sweden. In Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. and Vajda, V. (eds). Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434: 293–301.

2015

Siversson, M., Lindgren, J., Newbrey, M.G., Cederström, P. and Cook, T.D. (2015). Cenomanian-Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60: 339–384. 

Shimada, K., Popov, E.V., Siversson, M., Welton, B.J. and Long, D.J. (2015). A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e981335 (13 pages).

Newbrey, M.G., Siversson, M., Cook, T.D., Fotheringham, A.M. and Sanchez, R.L. (2015). Vertebral morphology, dentition, age, growth, and ecology of the large lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60: 877–897.

2014

Czuppon, G., Ramsay, R.R., Özgenc, I., Demeny, A., Gwalani, L.G., Rogers, K., Eves, A., Papp, L., Palcsu, L., Berkesi, M. and Downes, P.J. (2014). Stable (H, O, C) and noble-gas (He and Ar) isotopic compositions from calcite and fluorite in the Speewah Dome, Kimberley Region, Western Australia: implications for the conditions of crystallization and evidence for the influence of crustal-mantle fluid mixing. Mineralogy and Petrology 108: 759–775. doi:10.1007/s00710-014-0333-7

Downes, P.J., Demény, A., Czuppon, G., Jaques, A.L., Verrall, M., Sweetapple, M., Adams, D., McNaughton, N.J., Gwalani, L.G. and Griffin, B.J. (2014). Stable H–C–O isotope and trace element geochemistry of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, Kimberley region, Western Australia: implications for hydrothermal REE mineralization, carbonatite evolution and mantle source regions. Mineralium Deposita 49: 905–932.

Downes, P.J., McNamara, K.J. and Bevan, A.W.R. (2014). Encounters with Charles Hartt, Louis Agassiz and the Diamonds of Bahia: The Geological Activities of the Reverend Charles Grenfell Nicolay in Brazil, 1858–1869. Earth Sciences History 33: 10–25.

Sciberras, M.J., Leverett, P., Williams, P.A., Hibbs, D.E., Downes, P.J., Welch, M.D. and Kampf, A.R. (2014). Paratacamite-(Ni), Cu3(Ni,Cu)Cl2(OH)6, a new mineral from the Carr Boyd Rocks mine, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 17: 39–44.

Bevan, A.W.R. (2014). History and roles of the Royal Society of Western Australia. WA Science — Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 97:1–12.

Bevan, A.W.R. (2014). Some Australian contributions to meteoritics from the 19th to the 21st Centuries. WA Science — Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 97:237–252.