Myall Tarran

School of Biological Sciences

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My research is in palaeobotany. I work on the fossil record of the Myrtaceae (the flowering plant family that includes Eucalypts, Bottle-Brushes, Melaleuca and Lilli-Pilli's) from the Cenozoic of south-eastern Australia, in the context of radically the changing climate and vegetation through this period. In particular, I have published on the fossil record of Metrosideros (Called Rātā and pōhutukawa in Aotearoa, and ʻōhiʻa lehua in Hawaii) a capsular-fruited genus of flowering Myrtaceae previously not known to have occurred in Australia, which today is widely spread throughout the Pacific, with centres of diversity in New Caledonia and New Zealand.

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Date Position Institution name
2014 - ongoing PhD Candidate UofA

Date	Position	Institution name
2014 - ongoing	PhD Candidate	UofA

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Year	Citation
2018	Tarran, M., Wilson, P. G., Paull, R., Biffin, E., & Hill, R. S. (2018). Identifying fossil Myrtaceae leaves: the first described fossils of Syzygium from Australia. American Journal of Botany, 105(10), 1748-1759. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2017	Tarran, M., Wilson, P. G., Macphail, M. K., Jordan, G. J., & Hill, R. S. (2017). Two fossil species of Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) from the Oligo-Miocene Golden Fleece locality in Tasmania, Australia. American Journal of Botany, 104(6), 891-904. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2017	Carpenter, R., Tarran, M., & Hill, R. (2017). Leaf fossils of Proteaceae subfamily Persoonioideae, tribe Persoonieae: tracing the past of an important Australasian sclerophyll lineage. Australian Systematic Botany, 30(2), 148-158. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2016	Tarran, M., Wilson, P., & Hill, R. S. (2016). Oldest record of Metrosideros (Myrtaceae): fossil flowers, fruits, and leaves from Australia. American Journal of Botany, 103(4), 754-768. DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC1
2016	Hill, R., Beer, Y., Hill, K., Maciunas, E., Tarran, M., & Wainman, C. (2016). Evolution of the eucalypts - an interpretation from the macrofossil record. Australian Journal of Botany, 64(8), 600-608. DOI Scopus20 WoS22 Europe PMC3

I tutor and demonstrate for Ecological Issues I, a first year course in the department of Ecology and Environmental science.

Email: myall.tarran@adelaide.edu.au

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