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Professor
Suzanne Hand
AO FRSN FRZS
Born1955 (age 70–71)
OccupationsPalaeontologist, biologist, geologist
SpouseMichael Archer
Children2 daughters

Suzanne J. Hand (born 1955) is Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, a teacher of geology and biology, who has a special interest in vertebrate palaeontology and modern mammals. Her research has been published in over 250 articles and books, and is especially focused on the subjects of evolutionary biology, functional morphology, phylogenetics, and biogeography. Hand is a co-leader of the research team investigating the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, regarded as one of the four most important sites of fossil-bearing formations in the world.[1][2]

Hand has described and named more than 140 new fossil taxa, including a new order, families, tribes, genera, and species of monotremes, marsupials, bats, birds, reptiles, and frogs. Amongst the recognition of Hand's contributions is the specific epithet of a fossil species of bird, Eoanseranas handae, discovered in the Riversleigh fossil sites.[3]

Hand was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to palaeontology and zoology, particularly as a fossil bat and marsupial researcher, and to tertiary education".[4] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2015.[5]

Below is a list of taxa that Hand has contributed to naming:

Year Taxon Authors
2026 Phantasmodon minuferox sp. nov. Churchill, Archer, Hand, & Beck[6]
2026 Phantasmodon travouilloni gen. et sp. nov. Churchill, Archer, Hand, & Beck[6]
2023 Xenorhinos bhatnagari sp. nov. Hand, Archer, Gillespie, & Myers[7]
2018 Vulcanops jennyworthyae gen. et sp. nov. Hand, Beck, Archer, Simmons, Gunnell, Scofield, Tennyson, De Pietri, Salisbury, & Worthy[8]
2016 Microleo attenboroughi gen. et sp. nov. Gillespie, Archer, & Hand[9]
2015 Marnenycteris michauxi gen. et sp. nov. Hand, Sigé, Archer, Gunnell, & Simmons[10]
2015 Ganguroo robustifer sp. nov. Cooke, Travouillon, Archer, & Hand[11]
2013 Obdurodon tharalkooschild sp. nov. Pian, Archer, & Hand[12]
2011 Naraboryctes philcreaseri gen. et sp. nov. Archer, Beck, Gott, Hand, Godthelp, & Black[13]
2008 Manuherikia douglasi sp. nov. Worthy, Tennyson, Hand, & Scofield[14]
2007 Warendja encorensis sp. nov. Brewer, Archer, Hand, & Godthelp[15]
1998 Xenorhinos halli gen. et sp. nov. Hand[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Assoc. Prof. Suzanne Hand". Riversleigh News and Faunal Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ Long, John A.; Archer, Michael (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-86840-435-6.
  3. ^ Worthy, Trevor H.; Scanlon, J.D. (2009). "An Oligo-Miocene Magpie Goose (Aves: Anseranatidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 205–211. doi:10.1671/039.029.0103. S2CID 129930435.
  4. ^ "Emeritus Professor Suzanne Joan Hand". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Suzanne Hand, Fellow (2015): Sydney". Royal Society of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  6. ^ a b Churchill, Timothy James; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne Joan; Beck, Robin M. D. (14 June 2026). "A new metatherian order from Australia (Keeunamorphia, Metatheria), and new Early Miocene species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland". Journal of Paleontology: 1–30. doi:10.1017/jpa.2026.10238. ISSN 0022-3360.
  7. ^ Hand, Suzanne Joan; Archer, Michael; Gillespie, Anna; Myers, Troy (30 March 2023). "Xenorhinos bhatnagari sp. nov., a new, nasal‐emitting trident bat (Rhinonycteridae, Rhinolophoidea) from early Miocene forests in northern Australia". The Anatomical Record. 306 (11): 2693–2715. doi:10.1002/ar.25210. ISSN 1932-8486. Retrieved 25 June 2026 – via Wiley Online Library.
  8. ^ Hand, Suzanne Joan; Beck, Robin M. D.; Archer, Michael; Simmons, Nancy B.; Gunnell, Gregg F.; Scofield, Richard Paul; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; De Pietri, Vanesa L.; Salisbury, Steven W.; Worthy, Trevor Henry (10 January 2018). "A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand". Scientific Reports. 8 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5762892. PMID 29321543. Retrieved 20 April 2026 – via Nature Publishing Group.
  9. ^ Gillespie, Anna K.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne Joan (20 May 2016). "A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 19 (2). doi:10.26879/632. Retrieved 16 June 2026 – via Palaeontologia Electronica.
  10. ^ Hand, Suzanne Joan; Sigé, Bernard; Archer, Michael; Gunnell, Gregg F.; Simmons, Nancy B. (21 January 2015). "A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (3): 343–354. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 14 February 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.
  11. ^ Cooke, Bernard N.; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne Joan (4 July 2015). "Ganguroo robustiter, sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4) e956879. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.956879. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 11 April 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  12. ^ Pian, Rebecca; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne Joan (5 November 2013). "A new, giant platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (6): 1255–1259. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.782876. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 18 April 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  13. ^ Archer, Michael; Beck, Robin; Gott, Miranda; Hand, Suzanne Joan; Godthelp, Henk; Black, Karen (22 May 2011). "Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278 (1711): 1498–1506. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1943. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3081751. PMID 21047857. Retrieved 10 April 2026 – via The Royal Society Publishing.
  14. ^ Worthy, Trevor Henry; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; Hand, Suzanne Joan; Scofield, Richard Paul (27 March 2008). "A new species of the diving duck Manuherikia and evidence for geese (Aves: Anatidae: Anserinae) in the St Bathans Fauna (Early Miocene), New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 38 (2): 97–114. Bibcode:2008JRSNZ..38...97W. doi:10.1080/03014220809510549. ISSN 0303-6758. Retrieved 25 February 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  15. ^ Brewer, Philippa; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne Joan; Godthelp, Henk (17 July 2007). "A NEW SPECIES OF THE WOMBAT WARENDJA FROM LATE MIOCENE DEPOSITS AT RIVERSLEIGH, NORTH‐WEST QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA". Palaeontology. 50 (4): 811–828. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00678.x. ISSN 0031-0239. Retrieved 26 June 2026 – via Wiley Online Library.
  16. ^ Hand, Suzanne Joan (15 June 1998). "Xenorhinos , a new genus of Old World leaf-nosed bats (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) from the Australian Miocene". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18 (2): 430–439. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011070. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 21 June 2026 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
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