Dr Tim Holland

Dr Tim Holland assists in the management and digitisation of the museum’s mineralogy, petrology and palaeontology collections, including the curation and imaging of specimens, and data entry in the collection management system EMu.

Tim’s background in palaeontology includes research on Devonian and Carboniferous tetrapodomorph fishes. He has also published research on Cretaceous dinosaurs and marine reptiles from Australia.

• Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University. Thesis: “Morphology and phylogeny of ‘osteolepiform’ fishes: new insights from Australian fossils”
• Bachelor of Biological Sciences (First Class Honours), La Trobe University. Thesis: “Description of a new specimen of Barameda decipiens, NMV P212715 (Sarcopterygii: Rhizodontida), from the Early Carboniferous, Mansfield, Victoria”.
• Graduate Diploma in Education, La Trobe University.

• Choo B, Holland T, Clement A M, King B, Challands T, Young G, and Long JA. 2024. A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2285000. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000
• Bicknell R D C, Smith P M, Holland T, and Klompmaker A A. 2021 Cretaceous clam chowder: The first evidence of inquilinism between extinct shrimps and bivalves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 584: 110669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110669
• Jeffery J E, Storrs G W, Holland T, Tabin C J, and Ahlberg P E. 2018. Unique pelvic fin in a tetrapod-like fossil fish, and the evolution of limb patterning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (47): 12005-12010. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.181084511
• Holland T. 2018. The mandible of Kronosaurus queenslandicus Longman, 1924 (Pliosauridae, Brachaucheniinae), from the Lower Cretaceous of northwest Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 (5): e1511569. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2018.1511569
• Poropat S F, Nair J P, Syme C E, Mannion P D, Upchurch P, Hocknull S A, Cook A G, Tischler T R, and Holland T. 2017. Reappraisal of Austrosaurus mckillopi Longman, 1933 from the Allaru Mudstone of Queensland, Australia’s first named Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 41 (4): 543-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2017.1334826
• Holland T. 2014. The endocranial anatomy of Gogonasus andrewsae Long, 1985 revealed through micro CT-scanning. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 105 (1): 9-34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691014000164
• Holland T. 2013. Pectoral girdle and fin anatomy of Gogonasus andrewsae Long, 1985: implications for tetrapodomorph limb evolution. Journal of morphology 274 (2): 147-164. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20078
• Fitzgerald E M G, Carrano M T, Holland T, Wagstaff B E, Pickering D, Rich T H, and Vickers-Rich P. 2012. First ceratosaurian dinosaur from Australia. Naturwissenschaften 99 (5): 397-405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-012-0915-3
• Benson R B J, Barrett PM, Rich T H, Rich P V, Pickering D, and Holland T. 2010. Response to Comment on “A southern tyrant reptile”. Science 329 (5995): 1013-1013. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1190195
• Holland T. 2010. Upper Devonian osteichthyan remains from the Genoa River, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67 (1): 35-44. https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3316/informit.504364545234399
• Holland T, Long J A, and Snitting D. 2010. New information on the enigmatic tetrapodomorph fish Marsdenichthys longioccipitus (Long, 1985) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (1): 68-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724630903409105
• Holland T. 2009. Owensia chooi: a new tetrapodomorph fish from the Middle Devonian of the South Blue Range, Victoria, Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 33 (4): 339-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115510903270977
• Holland T, and Long J A. 2009. On the phylogenetic position of Gogonasus andrewsae Long 1985, within the Tetrapodomorpha. Acta Zoologica 90 (s1): 285-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00377.x
• Long J A, and Holland T. 2008. A possible ‘elpistostegalid’fish from the Devonian of Gondwana. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 120 (1): 184-193.
• Holland T, Warren A, Johanson Z, Long J A, Parker K, and Garvey J. 2007. A new species of Barameda (Rhizodontida) and heterochrony in the rhizodontid pectoral fin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (2): 295-315. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[295:ANSOBR]2.0.CO;2
• Long J A, Young G C, Holland T, Senden T J, and Fitzgerald E M G. 2006. An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins. Nature 444 (7116): 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05243
• Holland T M, Long J A, Warren A, and Garvey J. 2006. Second specimen of the lower actinopterygian Novogonatodus kasantsevae Long 1988 from the Early Carboniferous of Mansfield, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 118 (1): 1-10.