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Karen H. Black, born about 1970, is a palaeontologist at the University of New South Wales. Black is the leading author on research describing new families, genera and species of fossil mammals. She is interested in understanding faunal change and community structure in order to gain new understandings of past, current and future changes in biodiversity which are driven by climate.
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References
- ↑ K. J. Travouillon; Y. Gurovich; M. Archer; S. J. Hand; J. Muirhead (2013). "The genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (1): 153–168. Bibcode:2013JVPal..33..153T. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.713416. S2CID 53525712.
- ↑ K.J. Travouillon; Y. Gurovich; R.M.D. Beck; J. Muirhead (2010). "An exceptionally well-preserved short-snouted bandicoot (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1528–1546. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1528T. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501463. S2CID 86726840.
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