Karen H. Black

Karen Black
BornApproximately 1970
OccupationScientist
EmployerUniversity of New South Wales
Known forPaleontology

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.[1][2] 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.[3][4][5][6]

Karen Black won the Dorothy Hill medal, from the Australian Academy of Science in 2012, for research on the genus Nimbadon,[2] and is recognised by fellow researchers in the specific epithet of Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae.[7]

  1. ^ "Dr Karen Black". www.wakaleo.net. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b Rolfe, Dominic (29 November 2012). "Top 100: the thinkers". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ^ Derrick A. Arena; Kenny J. Travouillon; Robin M. D. Beck; Karen H. Black; Anna K. Gillespie; Troy J. Myers; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand (19 May 2015). "Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia". Lethaia. 49 (1): 43–60. doi:10.1111/LET.12131. ISSN 0024-1164. Wikidata Q56926137.
  4. ^ Karen H. Black; Gilbert J. Price; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand (April 2014). "Bearing up well? Understanding the past, present and future of Australia's koalas". Gondwana Research. 25 (3): 1186–1201. doi:10.1016/J.GR.2013.12.008. ISSN 1342-937X. Wikidata Q56814734.
  5. ^ Karen H. Black; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand; Henk Godthelp (2012), The Rise of Australian Marsupials: A Synopsis of Biostratigraphic, Phylogenetic, Palaeoecologic and Palaeobiogeographic Understanding, pp. 983–1078, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1_35, Wikidata Q55966551
  6. ^ Robin M D Beck; Julien Louys; Philippa Brewer; Michael Archer; Karen H Black; Richard H Tedford (25 June 2020). "A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes)". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 9741. doi:10.1038/S41598-020-66425-8. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7316786. PMID 32587406. Wikidata Q96686087.
  7. ^ Bates, H.; Travouillon, K.J.; Cooke, B.; Beck, R.M.D.; Hand, S.J.; Archer, M. (4 March 2014). "Three new Miocene species of musky rat-kangaroos (Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodoidea): description, phylogenetics and paleoecology". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (2): 383–396. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34..383B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.812098. S2CID 86139768.