Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Fauna

 

Amphibians

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

Bandicoots

Bats

Birds

Blina Shale

Brine-shrimp

Bullockornis

Carpoids

Cephalochordates - Lancelets

Chengjiang Fossil Site

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

Early Chordates

Ediacaran Fauna (connection with Acraman Impact Zone)

Ektopodontids see Riversleigh Ektopodontids

Emu Bay Fossils

ERVs

Eurypterid see Gogo Formation Extant Phylogenetic Bracket (EPB)

Extinction events - Periodicity

Feathertail Possums see Riversleigh Feathertail Possums

Fish

Fish Origins

Fossil Eyes

Fossil Faunas - Australian Local Faunas

Fossil Sites

Lake Eyre Fauna

Haikouichthys and Related Forms

Hawkesbury Sandstone

Hyporheos

Insects

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

Marusek Hypothesis - End Permian mass extinction

Mass Extinctions

Permian Mass Extinctions

Permian Mass Extinction - Marusek Hypothesis

Prosauropods

Megafauna

Monotremes

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

Spiders

Stromatoporoid

Spinifex Hopping-mouse

Stygobites

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