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Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich

Qualifications

AB Calif., MA Ph.D. Col.

Research Interests

  • Late Mesozoic ecosystems and climate change
  • The Precambrian World - the origin of life and the early evolution of animals
  • The vertebrate history on Gondwana, with special interest in the Mesozoic
  • History of palaeontology in Australia, Russia, China and Argentina
  • Communicating science to young children and the general public, with emphasis on developing countries and those affected by lack of stability

Contact Pat

Rm 148 Building 28
Clayton campus
Monash University

p: +61 3 9905 4889
f: +61 3 9905 4903
e: Pat Vickers-Rich

Chair, Palaeontology
Founding Director,
Monash Science Centre

Pat Rich

Research | Publications | Other

Recent publications

Books

  • Vickers-Rich, P., with Fedonkin, M. A., Gehling, J., Grey, K. and Narbonne, G. 2007.The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Animalia. Johns Hopkins Press, Washington (320 pp., 726 illustrations). Short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Science Book Prize for 2007-2008.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. & Komarower, P. (eds.), 2007. The Rise and Fall of the Vendian Biota. Symposium volume for two meetings, Prato (Italy) and Kyoto (Japan) organized by P. Vickers-Rich, co-leader of International Geological Correlation Project 493, UNESCO), 33 reviewed papers. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 286: 456 pp.
  • Murray, P. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2004. Magnificent Mihirungs. The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime. Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, 394 pp. Awarded Whitley Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales.
  • Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2003. A Century of Australian Dinosaurs. Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia and Monash Science Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 124 pp.
  • Rich, T. H., Vickers-Rich, P., Fenton, C. L. & Fenton, M. A., 2003. The Rock Book, Dover, Mineola: 397 pp.

Book Chapters

  • Fedonkin, M.A. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. First Trace of Motion. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P.Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 204-217.
  • Fedonkin, M.A. & P. Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The White Sea’s Windswept Coasts. In: Fedonkin, M. A.,J. G. Gehling, K. Grey, G. M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 114-147.
  • Fedonkin, M.A. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. Podolia's Green Valleys. In: Fedonkin, M. A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P.Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 148-155.
  • Fedonkin, M.A. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Siberian Tundra. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P.Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 156-167.
  • Fedonkin, M.A. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Urals. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 168-173.
  • Gehling, J. G. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Ediacara Hills. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 88-113.
  • Narbonne, G.M., J.G. Gehling, J.G. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Misty Coast of Newfoundland. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 52-67.
  • Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2008. Animal proxies, vertebrates. In: Gornitz, V. (ed). Encylopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Springer, Dordrecht: 13-15.
  • Trusler, P., Stilwell, J. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. Comment: Future research directions for further analysis of Kimberella. In: The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 286: 181-185.
  • Turner, S. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. Sprigg, Glaessner and Wade and the discovery and international recognition of the Ediacaran fauna. In: Vickers-Rich, P. & P. Komarower,, eds., The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 286: 443-446.
  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2008. Salt, oxygen, gargantuan mountains and the rise of animals. In: Gallagher, S.J. & Wallace, M. W. (eds.). Neoproterozoic Extreme Climates and the Origin of Early Metazoan Life. Geological Society of Australia, Extended Abstracts of the Selwyn Symposium, 91: 3-4.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. & Fedonkin, M.A., 2007. The Background. The Archean (4.5 billion to 2500 million years ago). In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 3-27.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. & M. A. Fedonkin, 2007. The Background. The Proterozoic (2.5 billion to 542 million years ago). In: Fedonkin, M. A.,J. G. Gehling, K. Grey, G. M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 28-46.
  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. Fossil Sites: Rare and Extraordinary. Introduction. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 47-51.
  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Nama Fauna of Southern Africa. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 68-87.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. & M.A. Fedonkin, 2007. Beyond the Major Sites. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 184-202.
  • *Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. Body Plans, Strange and Familiar, and the Enigma of 542. In: Fedonkin, M.A., J.G. Gehling, K. Grey, G.M. Narbonne & P. Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 234-256.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. et al., 2007. Atlas of Precambrian Metazoans. In: Fedonkin, M. A.,J. G. Gehling, K. Grey, G. M. Narbonne & P.Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 257-292.
  • *Vickers-Rich, P., Chiappe, L. M. & Kurzanov, S. 2003. The enigmatic bird-like dinosaur Avimimus portentosus: Comments and a pictorial atlas. In: Chiappe, L. & L. M. Wittner, (eds.) Mesozoic Birds - Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California. Press, Berkeley: 65-86

Journal Articles

2009

  • Close, R., Vickers-Rich, Trusler, P., Rich, T.H., Chiappe, L., O'Connor, J., Kool, L. & Komarower, P, 2009. Earlies Gondwanan bird from the Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, due out June 2009.
  • Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Flannery, T.F., Kear, B.P., Cantrill, D., Komarower, P., Kool, L., Pikcering, D., Trusler, P., Morton, S., van Klaveren, N. & Fitzgerald, E.M.G., 2009. An Australian multituberculate and its palaeo-biogepgraphic implications. Acta Paleontologica Polonica, 54 (1): 1-6.

2008

  • Martin, A. J., Rich, T.H., Poore, G.C.B., Schultz, M.B., Austin, C.M., Kool, L. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2008. Fossil evidence in Australia for oldest freshwater crayfish of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, on line through Science Direct, publ January 08. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2008.01.002.
  • Martin, A. J., Rich, T.H., Poore, G.C.B., Schultz, M.B., Austin, C.M., Kool, L. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2008. Fossil evidence in Australia for oldest freshwater crayfish of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 14: 287-296.
  • Rowe, T., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Springer, M. & Woodburne, M.O., 2008. The oldest platypus and its bearing on divergbence timing of the platypus and echidna clades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105: 1238-1242.
  • Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2008. Tunneling into permafrost for polar dinosaurs. Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120 (2): xli-li.

2007

  • Gaffney, E.S., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Constantine, A., Vacca, R. & Kool, L., 2007. Chubutemys, a new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina, and the relationships of the Meiolaniidae. American Museum Novitates, 3599: 1-35.
  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. Saline giants, cold cradles and global playgrounds of Neoproterozoic Earth: The origin of the Animalia. In: Vickers-Rich, P. & P. Komarower, eds., The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 286: 447-448.
  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Rise of Animals. Part 1. The Precambrian. A World of Science, UNESCO, 5 (4): 2-8 (in Spanish, English, Russian and French- popular journal and on line).

2006

  • Kear, B.P., Schroeder, N.I., Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T.H., 2006. Early Cretaceous high latitude marine reptile assemblages from southern Australia. Paludicola, 5(4): 200-205.
  • Pridmore, P.A., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P. & Gambaryan, P.P. 2006. A tachyglossid-like humerus from the Early Cretaceous of south-eastern Australia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 12: 359-378.
  • Stilwell, J.D., Consoli, C.P., Sutherland, R., Salisbury, Vickers-Rich, P.A., Currie, P.J. & Wilson, G.J. 2006. Dinosaur sanctuary on the Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific: First record of theropods from the K-T boundary Takatika Grit. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 230: 243-250.

2005

  • Novas, F.E., Valais, S. de, Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2005. A large Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of carcharodontosaurids. Naturwissen-schaften, 92: 226-230.
  • Rich, T.H., James A. Hopson, J.A., Musser, A.M., Flannery, T.F. & Vickers-Rich, P.2005. Independent Origins of Middle Ear Bones in Monotremes and Therians. Science 307:910-914.
  • Rich, T.H., Hopson, J.A., Musser, A.M., Flannery, T.F. & Vickers-Rich, P.. 2005. Response to Comments on "Independent Origins of Middle Ear Bones in Monotremes and Therians”. Science 309:1492c.

2004

  • Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2004. Diversity of Early Cretaceous Mammals from Victoria, Australia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 285: 36-53.

2003

  • Rauhut, O.W.M., Cladera, G., Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2003. Dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of the Chubut Group, Argentina. Cretaceous Research, 24: 487-497.
  • Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2003. Protoceratopsian? ulnae from Australia. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, 113:1-12.
  • Rich, T.H., Darragh, T.A. & Vickers-Rich, P., 2003. The Strange Case of the Wandering Fossil. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 279: 556-567.

Other Publications

  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2008. The Rise of Animals, Part 2. The Phanrozoic. A World of Science, UNESCO (in English, Spanish, Russian and French – popular Journal and on line), 6 (1), Jan.-March 2008: 2-9.
  • Vickers-Rich, P., 2007. The Rise of Animals, Part 1. The Precambrian. A World of Science, UNESCO (in English, Spanish, Russian and French – popular Journal and on line), 5 (4), Oct.-Dec. 2007: 2-8.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. & Komarower, P. (eds and authors). 2008. Dynamic Biospehre: Changing Fauna & Flora Through Geologic Time. Laboratory Manual. Monash University, Monash Science Centre, Melbourne: 174 pp + Appendices and tip in chart.
  • Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T. H., 2004. Dinosaurs of the Antarctic. Scientific American Special Edition, 14: 40-47.