featured within the following books: The Fossil Book (1997) Doubleday Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (1999) Indiana University Press The Dinosaurs of Darkness: Life of the Past (2000) Allen & Unwin Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime (2003) Indiana University Press The Rise of Animals: Evolution and diversification of the Kingdom Animalia (2007) Johns Hopkins The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life (2010) Cambridge University Press His artwork has also appeared on the cover of these books: Australia's Lost World. A history of Australia's backboned animals (1996) Kangaroo Press The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota (2007) The Geological Society of London Trusler has also illustrated guidebooks of Australian birds: Birds of Australian Gardens (1980) Rigby Publishers Ltd Birds of Australia (1999) Princeton University Press Trusler has only illustrated a series of Australian Stamps: Creatures of the Slime (2005) Australian Post Scientific Publications A partial list of scientific papers to which Trusler has contributed: Early Cretaceous mammals Rich TH, Vickers-Rich P, Trusler P, Flannery TF, Cifelli R, Constantine A, Kool L, van Klaveren N (2001) Monotreme nature of the Australian Early Cretaceous mammal Teinolophos. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Vol 46(1) pp. 113–118 Rich TH, Flannery TF, Trusler P, Kool L (2002) Evidence that monotremes and ausktribosphenids are not sister-groups. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol 22(2) pp. 466–469 Ediacaran fauna Trusler, P., Stilwell, J., and Vickers-Rich, P. (2007) Comment: future research directions for further analysis of Kimberella. In: P. VickersRich, and P. Komarower (eds.), Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota, 181-185. Narbonne, G.M., Laflamme, M., Greentree, C., and Trusler, P. (2009) Reconstructing a lost world: Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology Vol 83(4): 503-523. Elliott, D.A., Vickers-Rich, P., Trusler, P., and Hall, M. (2011) New evidence on the taphonomic context of the Ediacaran Pteridinium. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Vol 56(3): 641-650. Vickers-Rich, P., Ivantsov, A.Y., Trusler, P., Narbonne, G.M., Hall, M., Wilson, S.A., Greentree, C., Fedonkin, M.A., Elliott, D.A., Hoffmann, K.H., and Schneider, G.I.C. (2013) Reconstructing Rangea: New discoveries from the Ediacaran of Southern Namibia. Journal of Paleontology Vol 87(1): 1-15. Australia Post stamp series Trusler's work can be found in three different series of stamps celebrating prehistoric faunas and issued by Australia Post. The best-known of these was in 1993, depicting several Australian dinosaurs and pterosaurs. More recently, in 2007, he illustrated the "Creatures of