Staff

Alexander (Alex) Ritchie
Research Fellow in Palaeontology

Address
Academic qualifications
Professional appointments
Research interests
Publications

Address

Paleontology
Australian Museum
6 College St
Sydney 2010
Phone: (+612) 9320 6142
Fax: (+612) 9320 6042
Email Alex Ritchie

Academic qualifications

1959 BSc (Hons) Geology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1963 PhD University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Thesis - “Palaeontological Studies on Scottish Silurian Fish beds”

Professional appointments

Univ. of Edinburgh, Assistant Lecturer, Geology 1960-63
Univ. of Sheffield,Lecturer, Geology 1963-67
Australian Museum, Sydney (Curator of Fossils/ Palaeontologist/ Senior Research Scientist)1968-95
Macquarie Univ. Lecturer (part-time)Earth Sciences1968-76
Macquarie Univ. Research Associate, Earth Sciences 1988-present
Australian Museum; Research Fellow, Palaeontology1995-present

Research interests

The origins, evolution, relationships and biogeography of early vertebrates, from Ordovician to Late Devonian.
Ordovician agnathans from Amadeus Basin, Central Australia
Siluro-Devonian agnathans of Europe
Devonian Placodermi (specially Groenlandaspididae, Phyllolepidae)
Late Devonian fauna of Canowindra, New South Wales
Eden.

Selected publications

Ordovician and Silurian agnathans and Devonian gnathostomes etc.
Johanson, Z. and Ritchie, A., 2000. A new Late Famennian lungfish from New South Wales, Australia, and its bearings on Australia-Asian terrane relations. Alcheringa 24, 99-118
Johanson, Z. and Ritchie, A., 2001. Rhipidistians (Sarcopterygii) from the Hunter Siltstone (Late Famennian) near Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia. Geowissenschaftliche Reihe.
Marss, T. and Ritchie, A., 1998. Articulated thelodonts (Agnatha) of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Scotland: Earth Sciences, 88, 143-195
Ritchie, A., 1964. New light on the morphology of the Norwegian Anaspida. Skrifter utgitt av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, 1, Matematisk-Naturvidenskapslige Klasse, 14, 1-35.
Ritchie, A., 1967. Ateleaspis tessellata Traquair, a non-cornuate cephalaspid from the Upper Silurian of Scotland. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 47, 69-81.
Ritchie, A., 1968a. New evidence on Jamoytius kerwoodi White, an important ostracoderm from the Silurian of Lanarkshire, Scotland. Palaeontology, 11, 21-39.
Ritchie, A., 1968b. Phlebolepis elegans Pander, an Upper Silurian thelodont of Oesel, with remarks on the morphology of thelodonts. In T.Orvig (ed.) Current Problems in Lower vertebrate Phylogeny, Nobel Symposium 4: 81-88. Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm.
Ritchie, A., 1968c Lanarkopterus dolichoschelus (Stormer) gen. nov., a mixopterid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of the Lesmahagow and Hagshaw Hills Silurian inliers, Scotland. Scott. J. Geol. 4, 317-338.
Ritchie, A., 1973. Wuttagoonaspis gen. nov., an unusual arthrodire from the Devonian of Western New South Wales, Australia, Palaeontographica, 143A: 58-72.
Ritchie, A., 1975. Groenlandaspis in Antarctica, Australia and Europe , Nature, 254: 569-73.
Ritchie, A., 1980. The Late Silurian anaspid genus Rhyncholepis from Oesel, Estonia and Ringerike, Norway. American Museum Novitates, 2699: 1-18.
Ritchie, A., 1984. A new placoderm, Placolepis gen. nov. (Phyllolepidae) from the Late Devonian of New South Wales, Australia, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 107: 321-53.
Ritchie, A., 1984. Conflicting interpretations of the Silurian agnathan, Jamoytius. Scottish Journal of Geology, 20, 249-56.
Ritchie, A., 1985. Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland. Alcheringa, 9, 117-142.
Ritchie, A., 1985. Arandaspis prionotolepis. The Southern four-eyed fish. In: P. V. Rich and G. van Tets (eds), Kadimakara, Pioneer Design Studios, Lilydale: 95-106.
Ritchie, A., In press, 2002. The Great Canowindra Devonian Fish Kill. In: J.R.Merrick (ed.) Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Auscipub, Sydney.
Ritchie, A. and Edgecombe, G.E., 2001. An odontogriphid from the Upper Permian of Australia. Palaeontology, 44(5), 861-874
Ritchie, A. and Gilbert-Tomlinson, J. 1977. First Ordovician vertebrates from the southern hemisphere. Alcheringa,1, 351-368.
Ritchie, A., Wang, S.T., Young, G.C. and Zhang, G.R., 1992, The Sinolepidae, a family of antiarchs (placoderm fishes) from the Devonian of South China and eastern Australia, Records of the Australian Museum. 44:319-370.
Young, G.C., Long, J.A. and Ritchie, A., 1992. Crossopterygian fishes from the Devonian of Antarctica; systematics, relationships and biogeographic significance. Records of the Australian Museum . Supplement 14, 1-77.