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Completed student projects<\/h1>\n

2022<\/h2>\n

Fraser Brown (Honours)<\/strong> \u2013 The Brothers Islands: Palaeoecology of the southern Eyre Peninsula as revealed by a late Pleistocene megafaunal cave deposit<\/p>\n

Isaac Kerr (PhD)<\/strong> \u2013 The systematics and palaeobiology of kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon<\/em><\/p>\n

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2021<\/h2>\n

Nicia Burgess (Honours)<\/strong> \u2013 Dromornithid trackways from the Neales River, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, South Australia<\/p>\n

Diana Fusco (PhD)<\/strong> \u2013 The impacts of environmental change on late Quaternary fossil fauna at Cathedral Cave, eastern Australia<\/p>\n

Tim Niederer (Honours)<\/strong> \u2013 Diversity and systematics of Australian Pleistocene flamingos<\/p>\n

Rachel Oertel (Honours)<\/strong> \u2013 The Pliocene Mammalian Fauna of Corra-Lynn Cave, South Australia, and its implications for Australian Marsupial Evolution<\/p>\n

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2020<\/h2>\n

Warren Handley (PhD)<\/strong> – Endocranial anatomy of Australasian flightless galloanseres, with a focus on evolutionary transformation and the phylogenetic utility of the avian brain<\/p>\n

Aubrey Keirnan (Honours)<\/strong> \u2013 The nocturnal Letter-winged Kite (Elanus scriptus<\/em>, Gould, 1842) and diurnal birds of prey: visual anatomy differences are not like night and day<\/p>\n

Kailah Thorn (PhD)<\/strong> – Integrating fossils, morphology and molecules to understand the diversification of egerniine skinks<\/p>\n

Petar Tomic (Honours)<\/strong> – A new eubrachythoracid arthrodire (Pisces; Placodermi) from Gogo, Western Australia. Systematics, phylogenetics and biogeography of the new \u2018eastmanosteid\u2019<\/p>\n

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2019<\/h2>\n

Elen Shute (PhD)<\/strong> – Early and Middle Pleistocene non-passerine bird fossils from the Thylacoleo Caves, Nullarbor Plain<\/p>\n

Nimue Gibbs (Honours)<\/strong> – The late Quaternary squamates from Cathedral Cave, Wellington, New South Wales<\/p>\n

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2018<\/h2>\n

Samuel Arman (PhD)<\/strong> – Diets of the Macropodidae inferred through Dental Microwear Texture Analysis<\/p>\n

Nathan Brown (Honours)<\/strong> – Analytical comparison of taphonomic features on fossil material from Lake Pinpa and Billeroo Creek, Namba Formation<\/p>\n

Arthur Crichton (Honours)<\/strong> – Small mammal responses to early-middle Pleistocene climate change in south-central Australia: biodiversity and body size<\/p>\n

Phoebe McInerney (Honours)<\/strong> – Analysis of syrinx, hyoid, and larynx morphology in the Southern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius<\/em> (Aves, Palaeognathae) and implications for palaeognath phylogeny<\/p>\n

Cassy Petho (Honours)<\/strong> – Small vertebrate remains from recent raptor accumulations in the Lake Eyre region and their ecological implications<\/p>\n

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2017<\/h2>\n

Aidan Couzens (PhD)<\/strong> – Late Cenozoic evolution of the macropodoid dentition<\/p>\n

Ben King (PhD)<\/strong> – The early evolution of jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), with a special focus on sensory systems and the application of Bayesian phylogenetic methods<\/p>\n

Amy Tschirn (Honours)<\/strong> – New phascolarctid material from the Lake Frome Basin and its implications for the taxonomy and palaeobiology in Madakoala<\/i><\/p>\n

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2016<\/h2>\n

Rachel Correll (PhD)<\/strong> – Determinants of body-size variation within Australian mammal species<\/p>\n

Ellen Mather (Honours)<\/strong> – Diversity, morphological change, and flight capability in the fossil rail (Aves: Rallidae) taxa of the St Bathans Local Fauna, Otago, South Island, New Zealand<\/p>\n

Jacob van Zoelen (Honours)<\/strong> – Digitally reconstructing of the skull of the extinct marsupial Nototherium inerme<\/em> (Diprotodontidae) and inferring diet using multidisciplinary analyses<\/p>\n

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2014<\/h2>\n

Amy Macken (PhD)<\/strong> – Natural variation in south-eastern South Australian small mammal communities through the late Quaternary<\/p>\n

Diana Fusco (Honours)<\/strong> – The biodiversity of the Holocene terrestrial mammal faunas of the Murray Mallee<\/p>\n

Warren Handley (Honours)<\/strong> – A late Miocene Mihirung m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois, dimorphism of the dreamtime dromornithids<\/p>\n

Louise Roberts-Manuel (Honours)<\/strong> – A description of fossil teleostean fishes form the Mannum Formation, South Australia, and their relationship to extant fishes<\/p>\n

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2013<\/h2>\n

Matthew McDowell (PhD)<\/strong> – Late Quaternary faunal responses to environmental change and isolation on a large Australian land-bridge island<\/p>\n

Shaun Adams (Honours)<\/strong> – Palaeoecological investigation of a terminal Pleistocene\u2013Holocene assemblage from Kelly Hill Cave, Kangaroo Island<\/p>\n

Dale Nelson (Honours)<\/strong> – Functional morphology of the macropodid nasal cavity<\/p>\n

Miyess Mitri (Honours)<\/strong> – Addressing the mound-building capabilities of Sylviornis<\/em> neocaledoniae<\/em>, a giant galliform bird from the Holocene of New Caledonia<\/p>\n

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2011<\/h2>\n

Qamariya Nasrullah (Honours)<\/strong> – Unravelling the evolutionary history of the kangaroo subfamily Sthenurinae<\/p>\n

Samuel Arman (Honours)<\/strong> – Documentation and interpretation of vertebrate scratch marks in Tight Entrance Cave, Western Australia<\/p>\n

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2009<\/h2>\n

Amy Macken (Honours)<\/strong> – A palaeoecological investigation of the Grant Hall fossil deposit, Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia<\/p>\n

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2008<\/h2>\n

Lesley Moore (Honours)<\/strong> – Functional morphology and palaeoecology of the extinct macropodoids, sthenurines and Protemnodon<\/i> spp. (Marsupialia; Diprotodontia)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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