Associate Professor Steven Salisbury
Director of Indigenous Engagement
Associate Professor
School of the Environment
+61 7 336 58548
Researcher biography
Dr Steve Salisbury is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Queensland, where he is head of the UQ Dinosaur Lab and Director of Indigenous Engagement. He is also Research Associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Associate Editor for the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and a Scientific Board member of the Jurassic Foundation. He currently Chairs the Faculty of Science Indigenising Curriculum Working, and is the Faculty of Science represenative on the Indigenous Learning Sub-Committee of CAPP.
Steve is of Dutch-Indonesian and English descent, but was born and grew up in the cool, misty mountains of Dharug and Gandangarra Country. He studied biology and geology at the University of Sydney, receiving the Edgeworth David Award for Palaeontology in 1993. He then moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he completed his Honours thesis on fossil crocodilians from Murgon, south-eastern Queensland. Continuing at the UNSW, Steve travelled to Germany and the UK to complete a PhD on crocodilian locomotor evolution. He returned to Australia in 2000 to pursue a life-long dream of searching for Australian dinosaurs, and joined The University of Queensland in 2003 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He currently lives in Tulmar (Ipswich) on Yagara/Ugarapul Country.
Steve's research focuses on the evolution of Gondwanan continental vertebrates, in particular dinosaurs and crocodilians. He is also interested in vertebrate biomechanics and using extant animals to better understand the anatomy, behaviour and evolution of extinct ones. His field-based research takes him to various parts of Queensland, the Kimberley, New Zealand and Antarctica.
For over 15 years, Steve has partnered with First Nations communities in the Saltwater Sundown Country of the West Kimberley to better understand the region's natural and cultural heritage, in particular its dinosaur tracks. He is passionate about decolonising and transforming aspects of palaeontology and empowering First Nations voices in the natural sciences. He is now trying to use some of his experiences in palaeontology to help develop and implement teaching and research practices that are more respectful and understanding of First Nations sovereignty, perspectives and ways of knowing.
Publications
Book Chapters
Hird, Coen, Walker, Jim, Mos, Benjamin and Salisbury, Steven W. (2025). Indigenising the environmental science curriculum part 1: foundations. Indigenising curriculum at The University of Queensland: a handbook. (pp. 48-60) edited by Tracey Bunda, Katelyn Barney, Levon Blue and Laura Deane. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Hird, Coen, Walker, Jim, Mos, Benjamin and Salisbury, Steven W. (2025). Indigenising the environmental science curriculum part 2: in practice. Indigenising curriculum at The University of Queensland: a handbook. (pp. 61-83) edited by Tracey Bunda, Katelyn Barney, Levon Blue and Laura Deane. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Salisbury, Steven W. and Naish, Darren (2011). Crocodilians. English Wealden Fossils. (pp. 305-369) edited by David Batten and Philip D. Lane. Aberystwyth, Wales, U.K.: Paleontological Association.
Frey, E. and Salisbury, S. W. (2007). Crocodilians of the Crato Formation: evidence for enigmatic species. The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil - Window into an Ancient World. (pp. 463-474) edited by Martill, D. M., Bechly, G. and Loveridge, R. F.. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511535512.017
Molnar, R. E. and Salisbury, S. W. (2005). Observations on Cretaceous Sauropods from Australia. Thunder-Lizards: the sauropodomorph dinosaurs. (pp. 454-465) edited by Kenneth Carpenter and Virginia Tidwell. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Salisbury. S. W. and Frey, E. (2001). A biomechanical transformation model for the evolution of semi-spheroidal articulations between adjoining vertebral bodies in crocodilians. Crocodilian biology and evolution. (pp. 121-148) edited by Gordon C. Grigg, Frank Seebacher and Craig E. Franklink. Chipping Norton, NSW, Australia: Surrey Beatty & Sons.
Frey, E. and Salisbury, S. W. (2001). The kinematics of aquatic locomotion in Osteolaemus tetraspis Cope. Crocodilian biology and evolution. (pp. 165-179) edited by Gordon C. Grigg, Frank Seebacher and Craig E. Franklin. Chipping Norton, NSW, Australia: Surrey Beatty & Sons.
Journal Articles
Poropat, S. F., Bell, P. R., Hart, L. J., Salisbury, S. W. and Kear, B. P. (2025). An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods (vol 47, pg 129, 2023). Alcheringa, 49 (2), 498-498. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2025.2508434
Hurst, Sally, Moore, Mark W., Simpson, Andrew, Salisbury, Steven W., Ahoy, Steven, Kitchener, Cheryl and Betts, Marissa J. (2024). More than museums: care for natural and cultural heritage in Australia. Geoconservation Research, 7 (2) 072405. doi: 10.57647/gcr-2024-si-sy25
Worthy, Trevor H., Paul Scofield, R., De Pietri, Vanesa, Salisbury, Steven W., Schwarzhans, Werner, Hand, Suzanne J. and Archer, Michael (2024). A synopsis of the Early Miocene St Bathans fauna from New Zealand. Geobios, 90, 163-178. doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2024.03.002
Richards, Timothy M., Stumkat, Paul E. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2023). A second specimen of the pterosaur Thapunngaka shawi from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) Toolebuc Formation of North West Queensland, Australia. Cretaceous Research, 154 105740, 105740. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105740
Yates, Adam M., Ristevski, Jorgo and Salisbury, Steven W. (2023). The last Baru (Crocodylia, Mekosuchinae): a new species of ‘cleaver‐headed crocodile’ from central Australia and the turnover of crocodylians during the Late Miocene in Australia. Papers in Palaeontology, 9 (5) e1523. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1523
Ristevski, Jorgo, Willis, Paul M. A., Yates, Adam M., White, Matt A., Hart, Lachlan J., Stein, Michael D., Price, Gilbert J. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2023). Migrations, diversifications and extinctions: the evolutionary history of crocodyliforms in Australasia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47 (4), 1-46. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2023.2201319
Poropat, Stephen F., Bell, Phil R., Hart, Lachlan J., Salisbury, Steven W. and Kear, Benjamin P. (2023). An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47 (2), 129-205. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2023.2228367
Roberts, Eric M., O’Connor, Patrick M., Clarke, Julia A., Slotznick, Sarah P., Placzek, Christa J., Tobin, Thomas S., Hannaford, Carey, Orr, Theresa, Jinnah, Zubair A., Claeson, Kerin M., Salisbury, Steven, Kirschvink, Joseph L., Pirrie, Duncan and Lamanna, Matthew C. (2023). New age constraints support a K/Pg boundary interval on Vega Island, Antarctica: Implications for latest Cretaceous vertebrates and paleoenvironments. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 135 (3-4), 867-885. doi: 10.1130/B36422.1
Ristevski, Jorgo, Weisbecker, Vera, Scanlon, John D., Price, Gilbert J. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2022). Cranial anatomy of the mekosuchine crocodylian Trilophosuchus rackhami Willis, 1993. The Anatomical Record, 306 (2), 239-297. doi: 10.1002/ar.25050
Jannel, Andréas, Salisbury, Steven W. and Panagiotopoulou, Olga (2022). Softening the steps to gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs through the evolution of a pedal pad. Science Advances, 8 (32) eabm8280, 1-14. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm8280
Worthy, Trevor H., Scofield, R. Paul, Salisbury, Steven W., Hand, Suzanne J., De Pietri, Vanesa L. and Archer, Michael (2022). Two new neoavian taxa with contrasting palaeobiogeographical implications from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand. Journal of Ornithology, 163 (3), 643-658. doi: 10.1007/s10336-022-01981-6
Worthy, Trevor H., Scofield, R. Paul, Salisbury, Steven W., Hand, Suzanne J., De Pietri, Vanesa L., Blokland, Jacob C. and Archer, Michael (2022). A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand. Geobios, 70, 87-107. doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2021.08.002
Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Jannel, Andréas and Salisbury, Steven W. (2022). Saurischian dinosaur tracks from the Upper Triassic of southern Queensland: possible evidence for Australia’s earliest sauropodomorph trackmaker. Historical Biology, 34 (9), 1834-1843. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1984447
Richards, Timothy M., Stumkat, Paul E. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2021). A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, North West Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41 (3) e1946068, e1946068. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2021.1946068
Ristevski, Jorgo, Price, Gilbert J., Weisbecker, Vera and Salisbury, Steven W. (2021). First record of a tomistomine crocodylian from Australia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 12158 , 12158. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91717-y
Hart, Lachlan J., Bell, Phil R., Smith, Elizabeth T., Mitchell, D. Rex, Brougham, Tom and Salisbury, Steven W. (2021). A probable skeleton of Isisfordia (Crocodyliformes) and additional crocodyliform remains from the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian, New South Wales, Australia). Journal of Paleontology, 95 (2) PII S0022336020000980, 351-366. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2020.98
Romilio, Anthony, Salisbury, Steven W. and Jannel, Andréas (2021). Footprints of large theropod dinosaurs in the Middle–UpperJurassic (lower Callovian–lower Tithonian) Walloon Coal Measures of southern Queensland, Australia. Historical Biology, 33 (10), 2135-2146. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1772252
Ristevski, Jorgo , Yates, Adam M. , Price, Gilbert J. , Molnar, Ralph E. , Weisbecker, Vera and Salisbury, Steven W. (2020). Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886. PeerJ, 8 e10466, e10466. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10466
Berrell, Rodney W., Boisvert, Catherine, Trinajstic, Kate, Siversson, Mikael, Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús, Cavin, Lionel, Salisbury, Steven W. and Kemp, Anne (2020). A review of Australia’s Mesozoic fishes. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 44 (2), 1-26. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2019.1701078
Lamanna, Matthew C., Case, Judd A., Roberts, Eric M., Arbour, Victoria M., Ely, Ricardo C., Salisbury, Steven W., Clarke, Julia A., Malinzak, D. Edward, West, Abagael R. and O’connor, Patrick M. (2019). Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Advances in Polar Science, 30 (3), 228-250. doi: 10.13679/j.advps.2019.0007
Hart, Lachlan J., Bell, Phil R., Smith, Elizabeth T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2019). Isisfordia molnari sp. nov., a new basal eusuchian from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia. PeerJ, 7 (6) e7166, e7166. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7166
Jannel, Andréas, Nair, Jay P., Panagiotopoulou, Olga, Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven W. (2019). “Keep your feet on the ground”: simulated range of motion and hind foot posture of the Middle Jurassic sauropod Rhoetosaurus brownei and its implications for sauropod biology. Journal of Morphology, 280 (6) jmor.20989, 849-878. doi: 10.1002/jmor.20989
Fletcher, Tamara L., Moss, Patrick T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2018). The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. PeerJ, 6 (9) e5513, e5513. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5513
Falkingham, Peter L., Bates, Karl T., Avanzini, Marco, Bennett, Matthew, Bordy, Emese M., Breithaupt, Brent H., Castanera, Diego, Citton, Paolo, Díaz-Martínez, Ignacio, Farlow, Jim O., Fiorillo, Anthony R., Gatesy, Stephen M., Getty, Patrick, Hatala, Kevin G., Hornung, Jahn J., Hyatt, James A., Klein, Hendrik, Lallensack, Jens N., Martin, Anthony J., Marty, Daniel, Matthews, Neffra A., Meyer, Christian A., Milàn, Jesper, Minter, Nicholas J., Razzolini, Novella L., Romilio, Anthony, Salisbury, Steven W., Sciscio, Lara, Tanaka, Ikuko ... Belvedere, Matteo (2018). A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data. Palaeontology, 61 (4), 469-480. doi: 10.1111/pala.12373
Syme, Caitlin E. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2018). Taphonomy of Isisfordia duncani specimens from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) portion of the Winton Formation, Isisford, central-west Queensland. Royal Society Open Science, 5 (171651) 171651, 171651. doi: 10.1098/rsos.171651
Herne, Matthew C., Tait, Alan M., Weisbecker, Vera, Hall, Michael, Nair, Jay P., Cleeland, Michael and Salisbury, Steven W. (2018). A new small-bodied ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from a deep, high-energy Early Cretaceous river of the Australian-Antarctic rift system. PeerJ, 5 (1) e4113, 1-77. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4113
Hand, Suzanne J, Beck, Robin M D, Archer, Michael, Simmons, Nancy B, Gunnell, Gregg F, Scofield, R Paul, Tennyson, Alan J D, De Pietri, Vanesa L, Salisbury, Steven W and Worthy, Trevor H (2018). A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand. Scientific reports, 8 (1) 235, 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w
Tucker, Ryan T., Roberts, Eric M., Darlington, Vikie and Salisbury, Steven W. (2017). Investigating the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments for a suite of newly discovered mid-Cretaceous vertebrate fossil-localities in the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 358, 210-229. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.05.004
Salisbury, Steven W., Romilio, Anthony, Herne, Matthew C., Tucker, Ryan T. and Nair, Jay P. (2017). The Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36 (sup1), 1-152. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539
Romilio, Anthony, Hacker, Jorg M., Zlot, Robert, Poropat, George, Bosse, Michael and Salisbury, Steven W. (2017). A multidisciplinary approach to digital mapping of dinosaurian tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian-Barremian) Broome sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. PeerJ, 2017 (3) e3013, e3013. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3013
Syme, Caitlin E., Welsh, Kevin J., Roberts, Eric M. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2016). Depositional environment of the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) Winton formation at Isisford, central-west Queensland, Australia, inferred from sandstone concretions. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86 (9), 1067-1082. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2016.67
Herne, M. C., Tait, A. M. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). Sedimentological reappraisal of the Leaellynasaura amicagraphica (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) holotype locality in the Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia with taphonomic implications for the taxon. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 71, 121-148.
Leahey, Lucy G., Molnar, Ralph E., Carpenter, Kenneth, Witmer, Lawrence M. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2015). Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly known as Minmi sp (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Richmond, Queensland, Australia. PeerJ, 3 (e1475) e1475, 1-47. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1475
Hand, Suzanne J., Lee, Daphne E., Worthy, Trevor H., Archer, Michael, Worthy, Jennifer P., Tennyson, Alan J. D., Salisbury, Steven W., Scofield, R. Paul, Mildenhall, Dallas C., Kennedy, Elizabeth M. and Lindqvist, Jon K. (2015). Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand's endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat. PLoS One, 10 (6) e0128871, 1-19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128871
Fletcher, Tamara L., Moss, Patrick T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2015). Wood growth indices as climate indicators from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 417, 35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.10.012
Hanson, Jeffrey O., Salisbury, Steven W., Campbell, Hamish A., Dwyer, Ross G., Jardine, Timothy D. and Franklin, Craig E. (2014). Feeding across the food web: The interaction between diet, movement and body size in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus). Austral Ecology, 40 (3), 275-286. doi: 10.1111/aec.12212
Syme, Caitlin E. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). Patterns of aquatic decay and disarticulation in juvenile Indo-Pacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), and implications for the taphonomic interpretation of fossil crocodyliform material. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 412, 108-123. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.031
Fletcher, Tamara L., Cantrill, David J., Moss, Patrick T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). A new species of Protophyllocladoxylon from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 208, 43-49. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.05.004
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). Large dinosaurian tracks from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Lark Quarry, central-western Queensland, Australia: 3D photogrammetric analysis renders the 'stampede trigger' scenario unlikely. Cretaceous Research, 51, 186-207. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.06.003
Ringma, Jeremy L. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). Aquatic locomotor kinematics of the Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii). Journal of Herpetology, 48 (2), 240-248. doi: 10.1670/12-041
Fletcher, Tamara L. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). Probable oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) tunnels and faecal pellets in silicified conifer wood from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa, 38 (4), 541-545. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2014.912557
Fletcher, Tamara L., Moss, Patrick T. and Salisbury, Stephen W. (2014). Foliar physiognomic climate estimates for the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) Lark Quarry fossil flora, central-western Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 61 (8), 575-582. doi: 10.1071/BT13197
Fletcher, Tamara, Greenwood, David R., Moss, Patrick T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). Paleoclimate of the late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Central-Western Queensland, Australia: new observations based on clamp and bioclimatic analysis. Palaios, 29 (3), 121-128. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.080
Tucker, Ryan T., Roberts, Eric M., Hu, Yi, Kemp, Anthony I. S. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2013). Detrital zircon age constraints for the Winton Formation, Queensland: contextualizing Australia's Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas. Gondwana Research, 24 (2), 767-779. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.009
Delfino, Massimo, Scheyer, Torsten M., Chesi, Francesco, Fletcher, Tamara, Gemel, Richard, MacDonald, Stewart, Rabi, Márton and Salisbury, Steven W. (2013). Gross morphology and microstructure of type locality ossicles of Psephophorus polygonus Meyer, 1847 (Testudines, Dermochelyidae). Geological Magazine, 150 (5), 767-782. doi: 10.1017/S001675681200091X
Berrell, Rodney W., Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús, Yabumoto, Yoshitaka and Salisbury, Steven W. (2013). First record of the ichthyodectiform fish Cladocyclus from eastern Gondwana: an articulated skeleton from the Early Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59 (4), 903-920. doi: 10.4202/app.2012.0019
Leahey, Lucy G. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2013). First evidence of ankylosaurian dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa, 37 (2), 249-257. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2013.743703
Romilio, Anthony, Tucker, Ryan T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2013). Reevaluation of the Lark Quarry Dinosaur Tracksite (Late Albian-Cenomanian Winton Formation, Central-Western Queensland, Australia): No Longer a Stampede?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33 (1), 102-120. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.694591
Nair, Jay P. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2012). New anatomical information on Rhoetosaurus Brownei Longman, 1926, a Gravisaurian Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32 (2), 369-394. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.622324
Stein, Michael, Salisbury, Steven W., Hand, Suzanne J., Archer, Michael and Godthelp, Henk (2012). Humeral morphology of the early Eocene mekosuchine crocodylian Kambara from the Tingamarra Local Fauna southeastern Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa, 36 (4), 473-486. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2012.671697
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven W. (2011). A reassessment of large theropod dinosaur tracks from the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Lark Quarry, central-western Queensland, Australia: A case for mistaken identity. Cretaceous Research, 32 (2), 135-142. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.11.003
Fletcher, Tamara L. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2010). New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30 (6) PII 930469682, 1747-1759. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2010.521929
Herne, Matthew C., Nair, Jay P. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2010). Comment on "A southern tyrant reptile". Science, 329 (5995), 1013c-1013c. doi: 10.1126/science.1190100
Agnolin, Federico L.., Ezcurra, Martin D., Pais, Diego F. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2010). A reappraisal of the cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: Evidence for their Gondwanan affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8 (2) PII 922467212, 257-300. doi: 10.1080/14772011003594870
Wolff, Ewan D. S., Salisbury, Steven W., Horner, John R. and Varricchio, David J. (2009). Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs. PLoS One, 4 (9) e7288, e7288.1-e7288.7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007288
Smith, Nathan D., Makovicky, Peter J., Agnolin, Federico L., Ezcurra, Martin D., Pais, Diego F. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2008). A Megaraptor-like theropod (Dinosauria: Tetanurae) in Australia: support for faunal exchange across eastern and western Gondwana in the Mid-Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Containing Papers of a Biological Character, 275 (1647), 2085-2093. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0504
Salisbury, S. W., Agnolin, F., Ezcurra, M. and Pias, D. (2007). A critical reassessment of the cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas of Australia and New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 (Supplement No. 3), 138A-138A.
Buchy, M. C., Frey, E., Salisbury, S. W., Stinnesbeck, W., Lopez-Oliva, J. G. and Gotte, M. (2006). An unusual pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of northeastern Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen, 240 (2), 241-270.
Buchy, M. C., Frey, E. and Salisbury, S. W. (2006). The internal cranial anatomy of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): evidence for a functional secondary palate. Lethaia, 39 (4), 289-303. doi: 10.1080/00241160600847488
Salisbury,Steven W., Molnar,Ralph E., Frey, Eberhard and Willis, Paul M. A. (2006). The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 273 (1600), 2439-2448. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3613
Stilwell, J. D., Consoli, C. P., Sutherland, R., Salisbury, S., Rich, T. H., Vickers-Rich, P. A., Currie, P. J. and Wilson, G. J. (2006). Dinosaur sanctuary on the Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific: First record of theropods from the K-T boundary Takatika Grit. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 230 (3-4), 243-250. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.07.017
Schwarz, Daniela and Salisbury, Steven W. (2005). A new species of Theriosuchus (Atoposauridae, Crocodylomorpha) from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Guimarota, Portugal. Geobios, 38 (6), 779-802. doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2004.04.005
Holt, Timothy R., Salisbury, Steven W. and Willis, Paul M. A. (2005). A new species of mekosuchine crocodilian from the middle Palaeogene Rundle Formation, central Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 50 (2), 207-218.
Salisbury, S. (2004). Review of "A Field Guide To Dinosaurs" [Book Review]. Nature Australia, 27 (12), 80-80.
Salisbury, S. W. and Frey, E. (2004). The epaxial musculature of fossil crocodilians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24 (3, Supp.), 107A-107A.
Wroe, Stephen, Myers, Troy, Seebacher, Frank, Kear, Ben, Gillespie, Anna, Crowther, Mathew and Salisbury, Steve (2003). An alternative method for predicting body mass: the case of the Pleistocene marsupial lion. Paleobiology, 29 (3), 403-411. doi: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0403:AAMFPB>2.0.CO;2
Salisbury, S. (2003). Clash of the titans. Nature Australia, 27 (7), 44-51.
Salisbury, S. (2003). The fuzzy frontier. Nature Australia, 27 (10), 34-43.
Salisbury, S. (2003). On the shoulders of a giant: the story of Elliot, Australia's largest dinosaur. Australian Age of Dinosaurs (1), 12-21.
Salisbury, S. W., Frey, E., Martill, D. M. and Buchy, M. C. (2003). A new crocodilian from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-eastern Brazil. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie, 270 (1-3), 3-47. doi: 10.1127/pala/270/2003/3
Salisbury, S. W. (2002). Crocodilians from the lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England. Special Papers in Palaeontology :Life And Environments In Purbeck Times, 68 (68), 121-144.
Rossman, T., Berg, D. E. and Salisbury, S. W. (1999). Studies on Cenozoic crocodiles: 3. Gavialosuchus cf. gaudensis (Eusuchia: Tomistomidae) from the Lower Miocene of south Germany. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Monatshefte (6), 321-330.
Salisbury, S. W., Willis, P. M. A., Peitz, S. and Sander, P. M. (1999). The crocodilian Goniopholis simus from the Lower Cretaceous of north-western Germany. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 60 (60), 121-148.
Salisbury, SW and Willis, PMA (1997). A new crocodilylian from the Early Eocene of southeastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids. (vol 20, pg 179, 1996). Alcheringa, 21 (3-4), 218-218. doi: 10.1080/03115519708619174
Salisbury, S. W. and Willis, P. M. A. (1996). A new crocodylian from the early Eocene of southeastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids. Alcheringa: an Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 20 (3), 179-226. doi: 10.1080/03115519608619189
Conference Papers
Jannel, A., Panagiotopoulou, O., Romilio, A., Nair, J. P. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). Simulated range of motion and hindfoot posture of Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman, 1926 (Sauropoda, Gravisauria). Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide Australia, July 2016. Sydney, NSW Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Jannel, Andréas, Panagiotopoulou, Olga, Romilio, Anthony , Nair, Jay P. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2016). Reconstruction of the motion and hindfoot posture of Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman, 1926 (Sauropoda, Gravisauria). The Palaeontological Association 60th Annual Meeting, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France, 79, 14-17 December, 2016.
Romilio, A., Hacker, J. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). New approaches to evaluating the Australian dinosaur tracksites of Lark Quarry, Queensland and of the Broome Sandstone, Western Australia. Spring Meeting of the Korean Earth Science Society and Gyeongnam Goseong International Dinosaur Symposium, Gyeongnam, South Korea, 2016. Seoul, South Korea: Gyeongnam Educational Welfare Center.
Gray, S., Romilio, A., Hacker, J., Chamberlain, P. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). Palaeoenvironmental setting of non-avian dinosaur tracks in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of Reddell Beach, Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide, Australia, July 2016. Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Salisbury, S. W., Romilio, A. and Hacker, J. (2016). 3D digital analysis of non-avian dinosaur tracksites at Lark Quarry and Minyirr: implications for understanding Australia's Cretaceous dinosaurian fauna. Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide, SA, Australia, July 2016. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Syme, C. E., Salisbury, S. W., Welsh, K. J. and Roberts, E. M. (2016). Living by the Eromanga Sea: taphonomy of crocodyliform and osteichthyan fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Winton Formation at Isisford, Queensland. Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide Australia, July 2016. Sydney, NSW Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven (2014). Ichnological evidence for diverse pedal postures in ornithopodan dinosaurs. The 74th Annual Meeting of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) conference, Berlin, Germany, 5–8 November 2014. doi: 10.13140/2.1.1953.2485
Salisbury, Steven W., Romilio, Anthony, Herne, Matthew C., Tucker, Ryan T. and Nair, Jay P. (2013). Dinosaur tracks from the Walmadany area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 30 September - 4 October 2013. Adelaide South Australia: Flinders University.
Worthy, Trevor H., Worthy, Jennifer P., Tennyson, Alan J. D., Salisbury, Steven W., Hand, Suzanne J. and Scofield, R. Paul (2013). Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves. 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria, 11-16 June, 2012. Wien, Österreich: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
Romilio, A. and Salisbury, S. W. (2013). Three-dimensional analysis of the largest tracks from the Lark Quarry dinosaur tracksite, central-western Queensland. CAVEPS Flinders University, Adelaide 2013, 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide, Australia, 30 September - 4 October 2013. Adelaide, Australia: Flinders University.
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, S. W. (2012). Re-interpretation of the dinosaur track-maker identities and tracksite scenario at Lark Quarry, of the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia. Dinosaur Tracks 2011. An International Symposium, Obernkirchen, April 14–17, 2011. Abstract Volume and Field Guide to Excursions, Obernkirchen, Germany, 14–17 April 2011. Gottingen, Germany: Universitatsverlag Gottingen.
Worthy, Trevor H., Tennyson, Alan J. D., Salisbury, Steven, Hand, Suzanne J. and Scofield, R. Paul (2012). A fossil kiwi (Apterygiformes) from the early miocene St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand. 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria, 11-16 June, 2012. Wien, Österreich: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
Fletcher, Tamara, Moss, Patrick and Salisbury, Steven (2012). Palaeoclimate of the mid-Cretaceous Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia: new observations based on Leaf Margin Analysis, CLAMP, Bioclimatic Analysis and fossil wood growth indices. 34th International Geological Congress 2012 (IGC), Brisbane, Australia, 5–10 August 2012. Australia: Australian Geosciences Council.
Romilio, A. and Salisbury, S. (2011). Re-examination of the Lark Quarry dinosaur tracksite reveals an absence of tracks referable to nonavian theropods. Geological Survey of Western Australia 2011, CAVEPS Perth 2011, 13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Perth, Australia, 27–30 April 2011. Perth, Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record 2011/9.
Nair, Jay P. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2009). New anatomical information on Rhoetosaurus brownei (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda), from the Jurassic Injune Creek Group, near Roma, Queensland, Australia. 12th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics 2009, Sydney , Australia, June 22-June 25, 2009. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Geddes, K., Salisbury, S. W. and Wilkinson, J. (2007). Preparation of the type material of Isisfordia duncani, a basal eusuchian crocodylomorph from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Isisford, central-western Queensland, Australia. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Faggotter, S. J., Salisbury, S. W. and Yabumoto, Y. (2007). A new possible haleocomorph fish from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Isisford, central-western Queensland, Australia. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Fletcher, T. L., Salisbury, S. W. and Cook, A. G. (2007). New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of western Queensland, Australia. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Leahey, L. G., Salisbury, S. W. and Molnar, R. E. (2007). Cranial osteology of Minmi sp., a basal ankylosaurid thyreophoran (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Allaru Formation of Richmond, north-western Queensland, Australia. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Salisbury, S. W., Molnar, R. E. and Lamanna, M. C. (2007). Sauropods from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of central-western Queensland, Australia. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, 9 - 12 April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Holt, T. R., Salisbury, S. W., Worthy, T. H., Snad, C. and Anderson, A. (2007). New material of Mekosuchus inexpectatus (Crocodylia: Mekosuchinae) from the Quaternary of New Caledonia. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Nair, J. P. and Salisbury, S. W. (2007). Osteology and biomechanics of the crus and pes in Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic Injune Creek Group of Roma, south-western Queensland. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, April, 2007. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Pawley, K. and Salisbury, S. W (2007). Biomechanics of rhachitomous vertebrae in early tetrapods. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne, Australia, 10-13th April. Sydney, australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Berrell, R. W., Salisbury, S. W. and Yabumoto, Y. (2007). A new freshwater fish (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes) from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Isisford, central-western Queensland, Australia.. 11th Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Melbourne Convention Centre Melbourne Australia, April, 2007. Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Faggotter, S. J. (2007). A new possible haleocomorph fish from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Isisford, central-western Queensland, Australia. Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, 2007, Brisbane, Brisbane. NORTHBROOK: SOC VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY.
Salisbury, S. W., Molnar, R. E. and Lamanna, M. C. (2006). A new titanosauriform sauropod from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-cenomanian) Winton formation of central-western Queensland, Australia. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 18-21 October 2006. Norman, Okla., U.S.A.: University of Oklahoma.
Salisbury, S. and Frey, E. (2005). Gastropubic recoil aspiration in crocodilians and early archosaurs. Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mesa Southwest Museum and Phoenix Marriott Mesa Mesa, Arizona, 19-22 October, 2005. Norman, Okla., U.S.A.: University of Oklahoma.
Salisbury, Steven W. and Frey, Eberhard (2004). Anatomical correlates associated with the bracing system of extant crocodilians: addressing the locomotor inadequacies of the Indian gharial. 17th Working Meeting of the IUCN-SSC Crocodile Specialist Group, Darwin, N.T., 24-29 May 2004. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN - The World Conservation Union.
Salisbury, S. W., Frey, E., Martil, D. M. and Buchy, M.-C. (2003). A new crocodilian from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-eastern Brazil. Sixty-Third Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., 15-18 October 2003. Norman, Okla., U.S.A.: University of Oklahoma.
Salisbury, S. (2003). Theropod teeth from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian-cenomanian) Winton formation, Winton, central-western Queensland, Australia. Longman Symposium: Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evols, Queensland Museum, Queensland, Australia, 7 - 11 July 2003. Queensland, Australia: Queensland Museum.
Salisbury, SW and Frey, E (2001). A biomechanical transformation model for the evolution of semi-spheroidal articulations between adjoining vertebral bodies in crocodilians. Conference on Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, St Lucia Australia, Jul, 1998. CHIPPING NORTON NSW: SURREY BEATTY & SONS.
Research Report
Salisbury, S. W. and Romilio, A. (2018). Dinosaurian tracks and related geological features of the Reddell Point—Entrance Point area, Broome, Western Australia; palaeontological survey as part of the 2018 Broome Safe Boat Harbour site assessment process. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Newspaper Articles
Salisbury, Steve and Romilio, Anthony (2021, 10 21). Australia’s oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator The Conversation
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steve (2020, 06 19). Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as T. rex stomped across Australia 160 million years ago The Conversation
Salisbury, Steven and Romilio, Anthony (2014, 07 15). No dinosaur stampede at Lark Quarry – so what really happened? The Conversation