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Forster, Catherine A., de Klerk, William J., Poole, Karen E., Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya, Roberts, Eric M., and Ross, Callum F. (2023) Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa. The Anatomical Record. (In Press)

Roberts, Eric M., O’Connor, Patrick M., Clarke, Julia A., Slotznick, Sarah P., Placzek, Christa J., Tobin, Thomas S., Hannaford, Carey, Orr, Theresa, Jinnah, Zubair A., Claeson, Kerin M., Salisbury, Steven, Kirschvink, Joseph L., Pirrie, Duncan, Lamanna, Matthew C., and UNSPECIFIED (2023) New age constraints support a K/Pg boundary interval on Vega Island, Antarctica: Implications for latest Cretaceous vertebrates and paleoenvironments. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 135 (3/4). pp. 867-885.

Tucker, Ryan T., Hyland, Ethan G., Gates, Terry A., King, M. Ryan, Roberts, Eric M., Foley, Elliot K., Berndt, David, Hanta, Rattanaphorn, Khansubha, Sasa-on, Aswasereelert, Wasinee, and Zanno, Lindsay E. (2022) Age, depositional history, and paleoclimatic setting of Early Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages from the Sao Khua Formation (Khorat Group), Thailand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601. 111107.

Stevens, Nancy J., O'Connor, Patrick M., Mtelela, Cassy, and Roberts, Eric M. (2022) Macroscelideans (Myohyracinae and Rhynchocyoninae) from the late Oligocene Nsungwe formation of the Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. Historical Biology, 34 (4). pp. 604-610.

Beveridge, Tegan L., Roberts, Eric M., Ramezani, Jahandar, Titus, Alan L., Eaton, Jeffrey G., Irmis, Randall B., and Sertich, Joseph J.W. (2022) Refined geochronology and revised stratigraphic nomenclature of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Utah, U.S.A. and the age of early Campanian vertebrates from southern Laramidia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 591. 110876.

Kanno, Shiori, Tokumaru, Sayaka, Nakagaki, Shuhei, Nakajima, Yasuhisa, Misaki, Akihiro, Hikida, Yoshinori, and Sato, Tamaki (2022) Santonian-Campanian neoselachian faunas of the Upper Cretaceous Yezo Group in Nakagawa Town, Hokkaido, Japan. Cretaceous Research, 133. 105139.

Foley, Elliot K., Roberts, Eric M., Knutsen, Espen M., and Hannaford, Carey (2021) Cryptic Middle to Late Jurassic marine incursions into northeastern Gondwana: an integrated sedimentological, ichnological and geochronological approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 569. 110330.

Elliott, Marina C., Makhubela, Tebogo V., Brophy, Juliet K., Churchill, Steven E., Peixotto, Becca, Feuerriegel, Elen M., Morris, Hannah, Van Rooyen, Dirk, Ramalepa, Maropeng, Tsikoane, Mathabela, Kruger, Ashley, Spandler, Carl, Kramers, Jan, Roberts, Eric, Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Hawks, John, and Berger, Lee R. (2021) Expanded explorations of the Dinaledi Subsystem, Rising Star Cave System, South Africa. PaleoAnthropology, 2021 (1). pp. 15-22.

Titus, Alan L., Knoll, Katja, Sertich, Joseph, Yamamura, Daigo, Suarez, Celina A., Glasspool, Ian J., Ginouves, Jonathan E., Lukacic, Abigail K., and Roberts, Eric (2021) Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness. PeerJ, 9. e11013.

Claeson, Kerin M., Ngasala, Sifa, Gottfried, Michael D., Roberts, Eric M., O'Connor, Patrick M., and Stevens, Nancy J. (2021) A new assemblage of Cenozoic lungfishes (Dipnoi: Lepidosirenidae) from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. Geobios, 66-67. pp. 7-14.

McCartney, Jacob A., Bouchard, Sierra N., Reinhardt, Josephine A., Roberts, Eric M., O'connor, Patrick M., Mtelela, Cassy, and Stevens, Nancy J. (2021) The oldest lamprophiid (Serpentes, Caenophidia) from the late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania and the origins of African snake diversity. Geobios, 66-67. pp. 67-75.

Saynor, Mike, Wasson, Robert, Erskine, Wayne, and Lam, Daryl (2020) Holocene palaeohydrology of the East Alligator River, for application to mine site rehabilitation, Northern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 249. 106552.

Tobin, Thomas S., Roberts, Eric M., Slotznick, Sarah P., Biasi, Joseph A., Clarke, Julia A., O'connor, Patrick M., Skinner, Steven M., West, Abagael R., Snyderman, Lucia S., Kirschvink, Joseph L., and Lamanna, Matthew C. (2020) New evidence of a Campanian age for the Cretaceous fossil-bearing strata of Cape Marsh, Robertson Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research, 108. 104313.

Holm, Robert, Gold, David, White, Lloyd, Webb, Max, Mahoney, Luke, McLaren, Sandra, Heilbronn, Kelly, Oesterle, Juergen, Mizera, Marcel, Saroa, Dulcie, Lunge, Moira, and Webber, Sam (2020) Provenance and tectonics of the allochthonous New Guinea terranes: implications for the formation and evolution of regional basins. Search and Discovery. 11319.

Corkeron, M.L., and Slezak, P.R. (2020) Stromatolite framework builders: ecosystems in a Cryogenian interglacial reef. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Knutsen, Espen M., and Oerlemans, Emma (2020) The last dicynodont? Re-assessing the taxonomic and temporal relationships of a contentious Australian fossil. Gondwana Research, 77. pp. 184-203.

Miller, Case, O'Gorman, José P., Salisbury, Steven W., Coria, Rodolfo A., Roberts, Eric M., O'connor, Patrick M., Reguero, Marcelo A., and Lamanna, Matthe W.C. (2020) A new plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) specimen from the Upper Cretaceous of West Antarctica, with comments on the ontogeny and morphological diversity of the elasmosaurid pelvic girdle. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 86 (2). pp. 93-106.

Tucker, Ryan T., Zanno, Lindsay E., Huang, Hui-Qing, and Makovicky, Peter J. (2020) A refined temporal framework for newly discovered fossil assemblages of the upper Cedar Mountain Formation (Mussentuchit Member), Mussentuchit Wash, Central Utah. Cretaceous Research, 110. 104384.

Peters, Katharina J., Saltré, Frédérik, Friedrich, Tobia, Jacobs, Zenobia, Wood, Rachel, McDowell, Matthew, Ulm, Sean, and Bradshaw, Corey J.A. (2019) FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul. Scientific Data, 6. 272.

Lamanna, Matthew, Case, Judd A., Roberts, Eric, Arbour, Victoria M., Ely, Ricardo C., Salisbury, Steven W., Clarke, Julia A., Malinzak, Dale Edward, West, Abagael, and O'Connor, Patrick M. (2019) Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Advances in Polar Science, 30 (3). pp. 228-250.

Todd, Christopher N., Roberts, Eric M., Knutsen, Espen M., Rozefelds, Andrew C., Huang, Hui-Qing, and Spandler, Carl (2019) Refined age and geological context of two of Australia’s most important Jurassic vertebrate taxa (Rhoetosaurus brownei and Siderops kehli), Queensland. Gondwana Research, 76. pp. 19-25.

Blackburn, David C., Paluh, Daniel J., Krone, Isaac, Roberts, Eric M., Stanley, Edward L., and Stevens, Nancy J. (2019) The earliest fossil of the African clawed frog (Genus Xenopus) from Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Herpetology, 53 (2). pp. 125-130.

McCartney, J.A., Roberts, E.M., Tapanila, L., and O'Leary, M.A. (2018) Large palaeophiid and nigerophiid snakes from Paleogene Trans-Saharan Seaway deposits of Mali. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63 (2). pp. 207-220.

Epa, Y. Ranjeev, Stigall, Alycia L., Roberts, Eric M., O'Brien, Haley D., and Stevens, Nancy J. (2018) Morphological diversification of ampullariid gastropods (Nsungwe Formation, late Oligocene, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanania) is coincident with onset of East African rifting. Papers in Palaeontology, 4 (3). pp. 327-348.

Val, Aurore, Backwell, Lucinda R., Dirks, Paul H.G.M., d'Errico, Francesco, and Berger, Lee R. (2018) Reconstruction of the burial position of two hominin skeletons (Australopithecus sediba) from the early Pleistocene Malapa cave site, South Africa. Geoarchaeology, 33 (3). pp. 291-306.

Hagen, Cedric J., Roberts, Eric M., Sullivan, Corwin, Liu, Jun, Wang, Yanyin, Owusu Agyemang, Prince C., and Xu, Xing (2018) Taphonomy, age and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic taxon Lotosaurus adentus (Archosauria: Poposauroidea) from the Middle Triassic Badong Formation, Hunan, China. Palaios, 33 (3). pp. 106-124.

Müller, Johannes, Roberts, Eric, Naylor, Emily, and Stevens, Nancy (2018) A fossil Gekkotan (Squamata) from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Herpetology, 52 (2). pp. 223-227.

Wiersma, Jelle P., and Irmis, Randall B. (2018) A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp nov., from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA. PeerJ, 6. e5016.

Berger, Lee R., Hawks, John, Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Elliott, Marina, and Roberts, Eric M. (2017) Homo naledi and Pleistocene hominin evolution in subequatorial Africa. eLife, 6. e24234. pp. 1-19.

Tucker, Ryan T., Roberts, Eric M., Darlington, Vicki, and Salisbury, Steven W. (2017) Investigating the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments for a suite of newly discovered mid-Cretaceous vertebrate fossil-localities in the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 358. pp. 210-229.

Hawks, John, Elliott, Marina, Schmid, Peter, Churchill, Steven E., DeRuiter, Daryl, Roberts, Eric M., Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah, Garvin, Heather M., Delezene, Lucas K., Williams, Scott A., Feuerriegel, Elen M., Randolph-Quinney, Patrick, Kivell, Tracy L., Laird, Myra F., Tawane, Gaokgatlhe, DeSilva, Jeremy M., Bailey, Shara E., Brophy, Juliet K., Meyer, Marc, Skinner, Matthew M., Tocheri, Mathew W., VanSickle, Caroline, Walker, Christopher S., Campbell, Timothy L., Kuhn, Brian, Kruger, Ashley, Tucker, Steven, Gurtov, Alia, Hlophe, Nompumelelo, Hunter, Rick, Morris, Hannah, Peixotto, Becca, Ramalepa, Maropeng, van Rooyen, Dirk, Tsikoane, Mathabela, Boshoff, Pedro, Dirks, Paul H.G.M., and Berger, Lee R. (2017) New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa. eLife, 6. e24232. pp. 1-63.

Kanno, Shiori, Nakajima, Yasuhisa, Hikida, Yoshinori, and Sato, Tamaki (2017) Sphenodus (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Upper Cretaceous in Nakagawa Town, Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research, 21 (2). pp. 122-130.

Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Roberts, Eric M., Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah, Kramers, Jan D., Hawks, John, Dossetto, Anthony, Duval, Mathieu, Elliott, Marina, Evans, Mary, Grün, Ranier, Hellstrom, John, Herries, Andy I.R., Joannes-Boyau, Renaud, Makhubela, Tebogo V., Placzek, Christa J., Robbins, Jessie, Spandler, Carl, Wiersma, Jelle, Woodhead, Jon, and Berger, Lee R. (2017) The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife, 6. pp. 1-59.

Kramers, Jan D., and Dirks, Paul H.G.M. (2017) The age of fossil StW573 ('Little Foot'): an alternative interpretation of (26)AI/Be-10 burial data. South African Journal of Science, 113 (3-4).

Carr, Thomas D., Varricchio, David J., Sedlymeyer, Jayc C., Roberts, Eric M., and Moore, Jason R. (2017) A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system. Scientific Reports, 7. 44942. pp. 1-11.

Gorscak, Eric, O'Connor, Patrick M., Roberts, Eric M., and Stevens, Nancy J. (2017) The second titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania with remarks on African titanosaurian diversity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37 (4). e1343250.

Poinar, George, Kevan, Peter G., and Jackes, Betsy R. (2016) Fossil species in Boehmerieae (Urticaceae) in Dominican and Mexican amber: a new genus (Ekrixanthera) and two new species with anemophilous pollination by explosive pollen release, and possible lepidopteran herbivory. Botany, 94 (8). pp. 599-606.

Rodríguez-Ray, Marta, Herrando-Pérez, Salvador, Brook, Barry W., Saltré, Frédérik, Alroy, John, Beeton, Nicholas, Bird, Michael I., Cooper, Alan, Gillespie, Richard, Jacobs, Zenobia, Johnson, Christopher N., Miller, Gifford H., Prideaux, Gavin J., Roberts, Richard G., Turney, Chris S.M., and Bradshaw, Corey J.A. (2016) A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates. Scientific Data, 3. 160053. pp. 1-7.

Roberts, Eric M., Todd, Christopher N., Aanen, Duur K., Nobre, Tânia, Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah L., O'Connor, Patrick M., Tapanila, Leif, Mtelela, Cassy, and Stevens, Nancy J. (2016) Oligocene termite nests with in situ fungus gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, support a paleogene African origin for insect agriculture. PLoS ONE, 11 (6). e0156847. pp. 1-17.

Dirks, P.H.G.M., Berger, L.R., Hawks, J., Randolph-Qunney, P.S., Backwell, L.R., and Roberts, E.M. (2016) Comment on "Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?". Journal of Human Evolution , 96. pp. 149-153.

Salisbury, Steven W., Romilio, Anthony, Herne, Matthew C., Tucker, Ryan T., and Nair, Jay P. (2016) The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36 (S1). pp. 1-152.

Dechnik, Belinda, Webster, Jody M., Nothdurft, Luke, Webb, Gregory E., Zhao, Jian-xin, Duce, Stephanie, Braga, Juan C., Harris, Daniel L., Vila-Concejo, Ana, and Puotinen, Marji (2016) Influence of hydrodynamic energy on Holocene reef flat accretion, Great Barrier Reef. Quaternary Research, 85. pp. 44-53.

Xing, Lida, Parkinson, Alexander H., Ran, Hao, Pirrone, Cecilia A., Roberts, Eric M., Zhang, Jianping, Burns, Michael E., Wang, Tao, and Choiniere, Jonah (2016) The earliest fossil evidence of bone boring by terrestrial invertebrates, examples from China and South Africa. Historical Biology, 28 (8). pp. 1108-1117.

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Gold, David, Casas-Gallego, Manuel, Holm, Robert, Webb, Max, and White, Lloyd (2020) New tectonic reconstructions of New Guinea derived from biostratigraphy and geochronology. In: Proceedings of the Indonesian Petroleum Association Digital Technology Conference. From: IPACT2020: Indonesian Petroleum Association Digital Technology Conference, 14-17 September 2020, Online.