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Stephen Poropat: Paleobiogeographic implications of Cretaceous Australia's fossil record

Presentation: Palaeobiogeographic implications of Australia’s Cretaceous fossil vertebrate record. The Australian Cretaceous vertebrate fossil record is patchy, biased towards the eastern half of the continent, and temporally restricted. I explore why these biases exist and how they can be overcome. I explore what Cretaceous vertebrate fossils we do have and what they tell us. But I also explore what we might be missing — and might be able to reasonably expect from Australia’s Cretaceous fossil record in the future. Speaker bio: Stephen Poropat’s deep-seated passion for palaeontology all started with a book, a Christopher Reeve-narrated documentary about dinosaurs, and the trials and tribulations of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time. Since undertaking a PhD at Monash University on microfossil invertebrate biostratigraphy, Stephen has worked as a postdoctoral researcher — focused on dinosaur anatomy, phylogenetics, and biogeography — at Uppsala University in Sweden and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He is now Deputy Director of the Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre at Curtin University, where he is working as part of Prof. Kliti Grice’s team in an attempt to understand the pathways that lead to exceptional fossil preservation. He has a long-standing association with the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum in Winton, Queensland, and he is passionate about popularising Australian palaeontology to the general public. Presented at Public House Perth on the 4th of September 2024 for the Geological Society of Australia - Western Australia chapters' monthly technical talk.