Michael David Stein

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  • Research Associate, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW

Researcher with the University of New South Wales Archer Laboratory. I undertook my PhD in palaeoecology with UNSW and my MSc in palaeontology with Macquarie University. My areas of specialty include crocodylomorphs, locomotory evolution, biomechanics and geometric morphometrics. I am also branching into a number of international collaborations focused on histology and evolutionary dynamics. My main research interest is ecomorphological plasticity, particularly niche diversification among predatory hunting ecologies and general models of the capacity of lineages to reposition in trophic webs.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Associate, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney

Education

  • 2019 
    University of New South Wales, Ph.D.
  • 2009 
    Macquarie University, M.Sc.
  • 2006 
    University of Queensland, G.Cert.Sc.
  • 2005 
    University of Queensland, B.Sc. Hons.

Publications

  • 2025
    Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshells: insights into the paleoecology of mekosuchines, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • 2024
    A reinterpretation and taxonomic revision of Ultrastenos willisi Stein, Hand & Archer, 2016, a short-snouted mekosuchine crocodylian from the Oligocene of northern Australia, Paleontologica Electronica
  • 2023
    Migrations, diversifications, and extinctions: the evolutionary history of crocodyliforms in Australasia, Alcheringa
  • 2020
    Riversleigh primer, part 5, crocodiles, Riversleigh Notes
  • 2020
    Quantitatively assessing mekosuchine crocodile locomotion by geometric morphometric and finite element analysis of the forelimb, PeerJ
  • 2017
    Variation in the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Australian Oligo–Miocene mekosuchine crocodiles with implications for locomotion and habitus, PeerJ
  • 2016
    A new crocodile displaying extreme constriction of the mandible, from the late Oligocene of Riversleigh, Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • 2016
    Dwarfism and feeding behaviours in Oligo–Miocene crocodiles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • 2012
    Humeral morphology of the early Eocene mekosuchine crocodylian Kambara from the Tingamarra Local Fauna southeastern Queensland, Australia, Alcheringa

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