Assoc Prof Rod Wells

Publications

Book:

• Wells R.T. & Pridmore P. Editors (1998) Wombats (35 Chapters) Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW

Published Conference Abstracts:

• Wells R.T. and Prideaux G. 2005.  Dwarf specimens of Zygomaturus from Black Creek Swamp, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.  10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics and Quarternary Extinctions Symposium, Naracoorte.

• Wells R.T, Grun, R., Forbes M, Sullivan J., Bestland E., Reed E., and Krull E. 2005. The Black Creek Swamp Megafauna Site, Kangaroo Island: pre or post blitzkreig. .  10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics and Quarternarey Extinctions Symposium, Naracoorte.

• Grun R.,Wells R.T., Eggins S., Brown L. & Ayling M. 2005. Advances in dating Megafauna sites.  10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics and Quarternarey Extinctions Symposium, Naracoorte.

• Tedford R.H., Wells R.T. & Prideaux G.J. 2005. Pliocene and Pleistocene marsupial evolution in Australia. .  10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics and Quarternarey Extinctions Symposium, Naracoorte.

• Wells R.T. & Reed E. 2005 Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Site: history and overview. 10th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics and Quarternarey Extinctions Symposium, Naracoorte

• R.T.Wells, G.J.Prideaux, M.C.Mcdowell & L.M.Hall (1997) A late Pleistocene deposit at Rocky River, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Abstracts of the 6th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology & Systematics, Perth, p. 66-67.

• Ayliffe L. K., Moriarty K.C., Marianelli, P.C. and Wells R.T. (1997) Constraints on the Ages of Mid-Pleistocene Megafaunal Assemblages from southern Australia by U/Th dating of associated speleothems. conference abstract Archaeometry

• Wells,R.T.and Murray P.F.(1996) Palorchestines: marsupial 'tapirs' or 'ground sloths'? An anatomical reconstruction. J.Vert.Palaeontology 16 Supplement to No.3 Abstracts of Papers 56 th Annual Meeting SVP American Museum of Naturtal History NY.

• Moriarty K. & Wells R.T. (1966) The Geological History of the Naracoorte Caves . In: Hamilton-Smith, E. (Ed), Abstracts of Papers, Karst Studies Seminar, Naracoorte. Regolith Mapping, Hamilton, Victoria.

• Wells R.T.(1996)Earth's Geological History: a contextual framework for assessment of world heritage fossil site nominations. J.Vert.Palaeontology 16 Supplement to No.3 Abstracts of Papers 56 th Annual Meeting SVP American Museum of Natural History NY.

General Articles:

• Wells R.T. (1997) A Little on the Wild Side: Species Reintroductions. Zoo Times R. Zool. Soc. S.A. 14(1):1-3

• Wells R.T. (1996) Salt, Seeds and the Tribes of India. Zoo Times R.Zool. Soc. S.A. 13 (1): 1-4

• Wells R.T. (1994 ) Wombats. Zoo Times R.Zool. Soc. S.A.

Reports:

• Wells R.T. (2005) Observing the reclusive Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat in the Murraylands S.A. with particular reference to Portee Station and environs. Report to Portee Stn P.L. funded by Commonwealth Department of Industry Tourism and Resources

Book Review:

• Wells, Rod  (2007) Australia’s Mammal Extinctions: A 50,000 year History. Chris Johnson

  Australian Mammalogy 29: 115 -116

Refereed Papers:

• Grun R., Wells R., Eggins S., Spooner N., Aubert M., Brown L. (in press) Electron spin resonance dating of South Australian megafauna sites.  Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

• Forbes,M.S., Bestland E.A., Wells R.T. and Krull E.S. 2007

  Palaeoenvironmental  reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Robertson Cave sedimentary deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 54 (4): 541- 559

• Rod Wells, Rainer Grün, Jo Sullivan, Matthew S. Forbes, Simone Dalgairns, Erick A. Bestland, Ed J. Rhodes, Keryn E. Walshe, Nigel A. Spooner, Stephen Eggins. 2006  Late Pleistocene megafauna site at Black Creek Swamp, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.Alcheringa Special Issue 1: 367 - 387

• Wells R.T, Grun, R., Forbes M, Sullivan J., Bestland E., Reed E., and Krull E. (in press).2006. The Black Creek Swamp Megafauna Site, Kangaroo Island: pre or post blitzkreig. Alcheringa

• Grun R., Eggins S., Wells R.T., Rhodes E., Bestland E., Spooner N., Forbes M., McCulloch M. 2006. A cautionary tale from downunder: dating the Black Creek Swamp megafauna site on Kangaroo Island ,  South Australia. Quaternary Geochronology 1: 142 - 150.

• Grun R., Wells R., Eggins S., Spooner N., Aubert M., Brown L. (in press) Electron spin resonance dating of South Australian megafauna sites.  Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

• Tedford R.H., Wells R.T. & Prideaux G.J. 2006. Pliocene and Pleistocene marsupial evolution in Australia. Alcheringa Special Issue 1:313-322

• Kristofer M. Helgen, Rod T. Wells, Ben P. Kear, Wayne Gerdtz, and Timothy F. Flannery,2006. Ecological and evolutionary significance of sizes of giant kangaroos. Aust. J. Zool. 54: 1 – 11

• Fraser, R. and Wells R.T. 2006. A palaeontological investigation of the Late Pleistocene fossil deposit in Grant Hall, Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia. Alcheringa Special Issue 1: 147 -161

• Forbes, M.S., Bestland, E.A. Wells R.T. 2006 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Robertson Cave Sedimentary Deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia.(Abstract)  Alcheringa Special Issue 1: 441

• Pate, D.F., McDowell, M.C, Wells, R.T., Smith, A.M. 2006. AMS Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and the timing of megafaunal extinctions in the Naracoorte region of South Australia. Alcheringa Special Issue 1: 277 - 279

• Forbes, M., Bestland E & Wells R.T. (2004) Preliminary Radiocarbon Dates on Bulk Soil Organic Matter from the Black Creek Megafauna Fossil Site, Rocky River, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Radiocarbon, Vol 46, Nr 1.pp 437 – 443

• Wroe S., Myers T.J., Wells R.T. and Gillespie A. (1999) Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex (Thylacoleonidae: Marsupialia): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator and hypotheses of impoverishment of Australian marsupial carnivore faunas. Australian Journal of Zoology, 1999,47,489 - 498

• Wells R.T. & Green B.(1998) Aspects of Water Metabolism in the Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons .Chapter 21 in Wells R.T. & Pridmore P. Eds. Wombats Surrey Beatty & Sons

• McGregor F.& Wells R.T. (1998) Population Status of The Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus Latifrons) in the Murraylands of South Australia. Chapter 6 in Wells R.T. & Pridmore P. Eds. Wombats Surrey Beatty & Sons

• Gaughwin M.D., Breed W.G. and Wells R.T. (1998) Seasonal Reproduction in a population of Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats, Lasiorhinus latifrons, in the Blanchetown Region of South Australia. Chapter 10 in Wells R.T. & Pridmore P. Eds. Wombats Surrey Beatty & Sons

• G.J.Prideaux & R.T.Wells(1998) Sthenurus baileyi sp. nov., a new fossil kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 122

• Ayliffe, L.K., Marianelli, P.C., Moriarty, K., Wells R.T., McCulloch, M.T., Mortimer, G.E., Hellstrom, J.C. (1998) 500 ka precipitation record from southeastern Australia: Evidence for interglacial relative aridity. Geology 26 (2): 147 - 150

• Prideaux, G. & Wells R.T. (1997) New Sthenurus species (Macropodidae, Diprotodontia) from Welligton Caves and Bingara, New South Wales. Proc.Linn. Soc.NSW 117: 181 - 196

• Ride W.D.L., Wells R.T., Pridmore P., Barwick R. and Hedy H. (1997 ) Towards an understanding of Propleopus oscillans the giant extinct muskrat kangaroo. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 117:243 - 328

• Megirian, D. Murray P.F. and Wells R.T. (1997) The Late Miocene Ongeva Local Fauna of Central Australia. Beagle 13: 9 - 38

• Ayliffe L. K., Moriarty K.C., Marianelli, P.C. and Wells R.T. (1997) Constraints on the Ages of Mid-Pleistocene Megafaunal Assemblages from southern Australia by U/Th dating of associated speleothems. conference abstract Archaeometry

• Prideaux, G. & Wells R.T. (1997) New Sthenurus species (Macropodidae, Diprotodontia) from Welligton Caves and Bingara, New South Wales. Proc.Linn. Soc.NSW 117: 181 - 196

• Megirian, D. Murray P.F. and Wells R.T. (1997) The Late Miocene Ongeva Local Fauna of Central Australia. Beagle 13: 9 - 38

• Wells R.T.(1995)Earth's geological history: a contextual framework for assessment of world heritage fossil site nominations. Report to the World Conservation Union pp 1-43

• Wells, R.T. and Tedford, R.H. (1995). Sthenurus (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) from the Pleistocene of Lake Callabonna, South Australia. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 225: 1-111

• Wells, R.T. 1995 The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons Owen. In Australian Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals, ed. R.Strahan

• Prideaux, G.J. & Wells R.T. (1994) A New Extinct Kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae from Southeastern Australia. Records of the S.A. Museum 27: 227 -

• Baudinette R.V., Wells R.T., Sanderson K.J. and Clark B. 1994 Microclimatic Conditions in Maternity Caves of the Bent -wing Bat, Miniopteris schreibersii: an Attempted Restoration of a Former Maternity Site. Wildl. Res. 21, 607 -19

• Baynes, A. and Wells R.T. 1993 Responses of Mammals in Western and Central Southern Australia to Late Quaternary Climatic Changes. Paper presented at International Theriological Congress , Sydney

• Murray P.F., Megirian D., and Wells R.T. 1993 Kolopsis ypres sp. nov. (Zygomaturinae, Marsupialia) from the Ongeva Local Fauna: new evidence for the age of the Alcoota fossil beds of Central Australia. Beagle Records of the N.T. Museum of Arts and Sciences 10(1): 155 - 172

• Tedford R.H., Wells R.T., and Barghoorn S.F. 1992 Tirari Formation and contained faunas, Pliocene of the Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.  Beagle Records of the N.T. Museum of Arts and Sciences 9(1):173 - 194

• Griffiths, M., Wells R.T. and Barrie D.J. 1991 Observations on the skulls of fossil and extant echidnas (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae) Australian Mammalogy 14: 87-101

• Tedford, R.H. and Wells, R.T. 1990 Pleistocene deposits and fossil vertebrates from the "Dead Heart of Australia". Mem. Qd Mus. 28(1):263-284

• Wells, R.T. 1989. The Vombatidae. In The Fauna of Australia ed. D.W. Walton Bureau of Flora and Fauna, Australian Biological Resources Study.

• Wells, R.T. 1989 . The biology of the hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen), in S.A. National Parks and Wildlife State Management Plan for the Hairy-nosed Wombat. ed, B.J.St.John & G.M.Saunders. S.A. Dept. Environment and Planning

• Murray, P., Wells, R.T. and Plane, M. 1987 The cranium of Wakaleo vanderleuri, a mid-Miocene Thylacoleonid from the Northern Territory in Possums and Opossums . ed Michael Archer. Royal Zool. Soc. of N.S.W. Surrey Beatty and Sons

• Tedford, R.H., Williams, D.L.G. and Wells, R.T. 1986 Late Cainozoic Sediments and Fossil Vertebrates of the Lake Eyre Basin in The Lake Eyre Basin - Cainozoic Sediments, Fossil Vertebrates and Plants, Landforms, Silcretes and Climatic Implications ed. R.T. Wells & R.A. Callen. Australian Sedimentologists Group Field Guide Series No. 4, Geol. Soc. of Australia.

• Wells, R.T. and Callen, R.A. (eds.) 1986 The Lake Eyre Basin - Cainozoic sediments, fossil vertebrates and plants, landforms, silcretes and climatic implications. Australasian Sedimentologists Group Field Guide Series No. 4 Geological Society of Australia.

• Williams,S. and R.T.Wells 1986. Providing water for native fauna in arid habitats. In eds P.J.Joss, P.W.Lynch, O.B.Williams: Rangelands a Resource Under Siege Aust.Acad.Sci.

• Wells, R.T. 1985 Thylacoleo carnifex (Phalangeridae: Marsupialia), marsupial "lion". in Kadimakara Extinct Vertebrates of Australia ed. P.V. Rich, G. F. Van Tets, F. Knight.

• Tedford, R.H. and Wells, R.T.1985 Sthenurus Owen, 1873 Monodactyl Kangaroos in Kadimakara Extinct Vertebrates of Australia ed. P.V. Rich, G.F. Van Tets, F. Knight.

• Haight, J.R. and Wells, R.T.1984 Brain endocasts from two extinct kangaroo genera, Procoptodon and Sthenurus. J. Anat. (Lond.).

• Tedford, R.H. , Wells R.T.and Williams, D.L.G. 1984 Quarternary stratigraphy and vertebrate palaeontology of the Lake Eyre Basin. II. National Geographic Society Report.

• Wells, R.T., Moriarty, K. and Williams, D.L.G. 1984 The fossil deposits of Victoria Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia: the geology and fauna. Aust. Zool. 21(4): 305-333.

• Wells, R.T. 1983 The southern hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen), in National Index of Australian Mammals. (ed. R. Strahan).

• Wells, R.T. and Pledge, N. 1983 The vertebrate palaeontology of south eastern South Australia. in The Natural History of south eastern South Australia eds, M.J. Tyler, C.R. Twidale, J.K. Long and J.W Holmes.

• Wells, R.T., Horton, D.R. and Rogers, P. 1982 Thylacoleo carnifex (Owen), Marsupial carnivore? in Carnivorous Marsupials. ed. M. Archer, A.N.U. Press .

• Wells, R.T. with Tedford, R.H. and Williams, D.L.G. 1981 Quaternary Stratigraphy of Vertebrate Palaeontology of the Lake Eyre Basin. I. National Geographic Society Report.

• Wells, R.T. and Murray, P. 1979 A new sthenurine kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from Southeastern South Australia. Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. 103(8): 213-219.

• Wells, R.T., Lawson, P.F. & Williams, D.L.G. 1979 Science & Tourism: The Naracoorte experience. 3rd National Conference on Cave Management. 149-154 (ed. A.C. Robinson, Govt.Print.)

• Wells, R.T. 1978 Fossil mammals in the reconstruction of Quaternary environments - in Biological Problems in the Reconstruction of Quarternary Terrestrial Environments. eds. D. Walker and J.C.Guppy .Aust. Acad. Sci. Canberra pp103-124.

• Wells, R.T. 1978 Science and Society, J. South Australian Science Teachers' Assoc.

• Wells, R.T. 1978 Thermoregulation and activity rhythms in the hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen). Aust. J. Zool. 26:639-51.

• Wells, R.T. 1978 Field observations of the hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen)Aust. Wildl. Res. 5: 299-303

• Gaughwin, M.D. and Wells, R.T. 1978 General features of reproduction in the hairy-nosed wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen) in the Blanche Town region of South Australia. (Presented to 1978 AGM Australian Mammal Society).

• Wells, R.T. 1977 Recovering Fossils from Selminum Tem, Star Mountains, P.N.G. Nuigini Caver 4:45-46.

• Wells, R.T. with Tedford, R.H., Archer, M., Plane, M.D., Pledge, N., Rich, P., Rich, T. 1977 Miocene Mammals, Lake Frome Area, South Australia. B.M.R. Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics. 2, 53-59.

• Wells, R.T., Nichol, B. 1976 On the manus and pes of the cave lion, Thylacoleo carnifex (Owen) (Marsupialia). Trans R. Soc. South Australia, 101 (6): 139-146.

• Wells, R.T. and Moriarty, K. 1976 The Geology and Palaeontology of the Naracoorte Caves. Environmental Education Booklet, No. 24, S.A. Dept. of Education.

• Pearson, L.J., Sanderson, K.J. and Wells, R.T. 1976 Retinal projections in the ring-tailed possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus. J. Comp. Neur. 170: 227-240.

• Wells, R.T., E.H. Bailey and I. Lewis 1975 Naracoorte. CEGSA Ann. Rep. 1974/75: 10-11).

• Wells, R.T. 1975 Reconstructing the Past. Excavations in Fossil Caves. Aust. Nat. Hist. 18 (6): 208-211.

• Wells, R.T. 1974 Palaeontological Research at Victoria Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia CEGSA Newsletter 19 (1): 7-9.

• Wells R.T. 1973 Physiological and behaviuoral adaptations of the hairy- nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen ) to its arid environment. Ph. D. Thesis Adelaide: University of Adelaide.

• Wells, R.T. 1972 Fossil Research at Naracoorte (Victoria Cave). Proc. 8th Biennial Conf. of the Aust. Speleo. Fed. pp. 63-65.

• Wells, R.T. 1971 Maintenance of the hairy-nosed wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons in captivity. Int. Zoo. Yearbook 11: 30-31.

• Wells, R.T. 1970 Bones of extinct marsupials in Cave at Naracoorte Aust. Speleol. Fedn. Newsletter 50 :5.

IN PREPARATION:

• Wells R.T. (in prep). Fossils and Caves, The Naracoorte Experience. ( book approx. 200 pages)

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