Espen Knutsen
- espen.knutsen@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2646-2214- Senior Lecturer, Palaeontology
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Biography
I am co-appointed Senior Lecturer with JCU and Senior Scientist/Curator of Palaeontology at the Queensland Museum, Tropics in Townsville. I have a special interest in the diversity, evolution and ecology of Mesozoic reptiles. Current projects, involving fieldwork throughout Australia, aim to fill significant gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous vertebrate fauna in the southern hemisphere.
If you are interested in doing either a Bachelor Honours or Masters project in vertebrate palaeontology, please contact me. Currently I have projects in the following topics (although others can be discussed):
Triassic ecosystems from Queensland
Cretaceous marine reptiles from Queensland
Micro-vertebrates from Early Cretaceous Queensland
Triassic trace fossil fauna in central Queensland
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Scipione, Matthew; Vaucher, Romain; Roberts, Eric; McCoy-West, Alex J.; Esterle, Joan; Turner, Ashten; Knutsen, Espen (2026) 'Shifting the Paradigm: Redefining the Chronostratigraphy of the Triassic Rewan Group, Bowen Basin, Australia'. Basin Research, 38 . [DOI]
Knutsen, Espen; Konovalov, Dmitry A. (2024) 'Accelerating segmentation of fossil CT scans through Deep Learning'. Scientific Reports, 14 . [DOI]
Foley, Elliot K.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M. (2022) 'Deciphering Late Cretaceous palaeo-river catchments in eastern Australia: recognition of distinct northern and southern drainage basins'. Basin Research, 34 (2):590-617. [DOI]
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Foley, E.K.; Roberts, E.M.; Henderson, R.A.; Todd, C.N.; Knutsen, E.M.; Spandler, C. (2022) 'Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record'. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 69 (7):929-952. [DOI]
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Foley, Elliot K.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M.; Hannaford, Carey (2021) 'Cryptic Middle to Late Jurassic marine incursions into northeastern Gondwana: an integrated sedimentological, ichnological and geochronological approach'. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 569 . [DOI]
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Foley, Elliot K.; Henderson, R.A.; Roberts, E.M.; Kemp, A.I.S.; Todd, C.N.; Knutsen, E.M.; Fisher, C.; Wainman, C.C.; Spandler, Carl (2021) 'Jurassic Arc: reconstructing the lost world of eastern Gondwana'. Geology, 49 (11):1391-1396.
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Knutsen, Espen M.; Oerlemans, Emma (2020) 'The last dicynodont? Re-assessing the taxonomic and temporal relationships of a contentious Australian fossil'. Gondwana Research, 77 :184-203. [DOI]
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Foley, Elliot; Baty, Mason; Knutsen, Espen M.; Lignum, John S.; Roberts, Eric M. (2020) 'Jurassic - Early Cretaceous paleogeography and paleoenvironments of the north-eastern margin of Gondwana: insights from the Carpentaria Basin, Australia'. Gondwana Research, 88 :126-149. [DOI]
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Todd, Christopher N.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M.; Rozefelds, Andrew C.; Huang, Hui-Qing; Spandler, Carl (2019) 'Refined age and geological context of two of Australia’s most important Jurassic vertebrate taxa (Rhoetosaurus brownei and Siderops kehli), Queensland'. Gondwana Research, 76 :19-25. [DOI]
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Hammer, Øyvind; Hryniewicz, Krzysztof; Hurum, Jørn H.; Høyberget, Magne; Knutsen, Espen; Nakrem, Hans A. (2013) 'Large onychites (cephalopod hooks) from the Upper Jurassic of the Boreal Realm'. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 58 (4):827-835. [DOI]
Knutsen, Espen M.; Druckenmiller, Patrick S.; Hurum, Jørn H. (2012) 'Two new species of long-necked plesiosaurians (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Jurassic (Middle Volgian) Agardhfjellet Formation of central Spitsbergen'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :187-212.
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Knutsen, Espen M.; Hurum, Jørn; Druckenmiller, Patrick S. (2012) 'Redescription and taxonomic clarification of 'Tricleidus' svalbardensis based on new material from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian)'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :175-186.
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Knutsen, Espen M.; Druckenmiller, Patrick S.; Hurum, Jørn H. (2012) 'A new Plesiosauroid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian) of central Spitsbergen, Norway'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :213-234.
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Knutsen, Espen M.; Druckenmiller, Patric S.; Hurum, Jørn H. (2012) 'A new species of Pliosaurus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Middle Volgian of central Spitsbergen, Norway'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :235-258.
Knutsen, Espen M. (2012) 'A taxonomic revision of the genus Pliosaurus (Owen, 1841a) Owen, 1841b'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :259-276.
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Druckenmiller, Patrick S.; Hurum, Jørn; Knutsen, Espen (2012) 'Two new ophthalmosaurids (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Upper Jurassic: Volgian/Tithonian), Svalbard, Norway'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :311-339.
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Hurum, Jørn H.; Nakrem, Hans A.; Hammer, Øyvind; Knutsen, Espen; Druckenmiller, Patrick S.; Hryniewicz, Krzysztof; Novis, Linn K. (2012) 'An arctic lagerstätte – the slottsmøya member of the Agardhfjellet formation (Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous) of Spitsbergen'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :55-64.
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Druckenmiller, Patrick; Knutsen, Espen (2012) 'Phylogenetic relationships of Upper Jurassic (Middle Volgian) plesiosaurians (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation of central Spitsbergen, Norway'. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92 :277-284.
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Hammer, Øyvind; Nakrem, Hans A.; Little, Crispin T.S.; Hryniewicz, Krzysztof; Sandy, Michael; Hurum, Jørn H.; Druckenmiller, Patrick; Knutsen, Espen; Høyberget, Magne (2011) 'Hydrocarbon seeps from close to the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Svalbard'. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306 (1-2):15-26. [DOI]