Kenny J. Travouillon

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Kenny James Travouillon (* 1982 ) is an Australian vertebrate - paleontologist and Paläoökologe . His research focus is on fossil and modern-day extinct marsupials .

Life

From March 2001. He studied Travouillon Zoology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney , where he in November 2003, the Bachelor of Science and in November 2004 with the work Multivariate Analyzes of the Riversleigh Local faunas University of New South Wales, Australia with a Bachelor of Science with distinction BSc (hons) in paleontology. From March 2005 he studied paleontology at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and at the University of New South Wales, where he completed his dissertation in November 2008 with the dissertation Étude paléoécologique et biochronologique de Riversleigh, Patrimoine Mondial de l'humanité, localités fossilifères oligo-miocènes du nord-ouest du Queensland, Australie - Palaeoecological and biochronological studies of Riversleigh, World Heritage Property, Oligo-Miocene fossil localities, North-Western Queensland, Australia under the direction of Serge Legendre , Michael Archer and Suzanne J. Hand to Ph.D. received his doctorate.

Travouillon's early research focused on determining the chronological position of the fossil sites in the Riversleigh World Heritage Site in northwest Queensland in the absence of absolute data, using multivariate techniques as a tool to group similarly-aged sites from the Australian tertiary deposits based on taxonomic information. His research also aimed to identify the paleo-environments of the Riversleigh sites using cenograms. Cenograms are a graphic representation of the recorded average body weight of adult mammals in a fauna.

In 2017, Travouillon discovered by examining museum samples that pig's foot nasal sacs consist not of one species, but of two. Therefore, Chaeropus yirratji was described as a new species by Travouillon and his colleagues in 2019. The photo shows the bellows marked as paratype from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

From February 2012 to February 2015 he had a Robert-Day- post-doctoral scholarship of the University of Queensland , which he for the study of various fossil marsupial groups in Riversleigh and Etadunna ( South Australia used), including bilby , Actual bandicoots and kangaroos . The results of this work led in 2014 to the first description of the "crash bandicoot", named after the computer game of the same name and the rabbit- nosed hippo species Liyamayi dayi , named after Robert Day, a professor of paleontology and stratigraphy at the University of Queensland.

Since March 2016, Travouillon has been curator of mammalogy at the Department of Terrestrial Zoology at the Western Australian Museum . In July 2016 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship , which he received at the Natural History Museum in London , at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris , at the Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria in Genoa , at the Zoological State Collection in Munich , at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC , at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City , at Eastern Washington University in Cheney , at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Western Australian Museum. Investigations and DNA analyzes on long-nosed sacs and pig's foot -Nosebug operation. Based on these studies, Perameles pallescens was raised to species status in 2016 and, with Perameles papillon in 2018 and Chaeropus yirratji in 2019, two newly extinct species were described. The taxon Perameles myosuros , which for a long time was synonymous with the striped long-nosed bag ( Perameles bougainville ), was recognized again as a species.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KJ Travouillon, SJ Hand, M. Archer, KH Black: Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (Marsupialia, Peramelidae and Thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Volume 34, 2014, pp. 375-382
  2. ↑ Kenny Travouillon, 2016. Investigating dental variation in Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804, with morphological evidence to raise P. nasuta pallescens Thomas, 1923 to species rank. Zootaxa 4114 (4): 351-392. doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4114.4.1
  3. ↑ a b Kenny Travouillon & Matthew J. Phillips, 2018. Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4378 (2), 224-256. doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4378.2.3
  4. ^ Kenny J. Travouillon, Bruno F. Simões, Roberto Portela Miguez, Selina Brace, Phillipa Brewer, David Stemmer, Gilbert J. Price, Jonathan Cramb and Julien Louys. 2019. Hidden in Plain Sight: Reassessment of the Pig-footed Bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus (Peramelemorphia, Chaeropodidae), with A Description of A New Species from central Australia, and Use of the Fossil Record to Trace Its Past Distribution. Zootaxa. 4566 (1); 1-69. doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4566.1.1
personal data
SURNAME Travouillon, Kenny J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Travouillon, Kenny James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian vertebrate paleontologist and paleoecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982