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List of works by Roger Benson

A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs

scholarly article by Blair W. McPhee et al published October 2018 in Current Biology

A New Large-Bodied Theropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Warwickshire, United Kingdom

scientific article (publication date: March 2010)

A Reassessment ofKelmayisaurus petrolicus, a Large Theropod Dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China

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A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods

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A giant pliosaurid skull from the late Jurassic of England ⬇️

scientific article published in 2013

A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic

scientific article

A new leptocleidid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Vectis Formation (Early Barremian–early Aptian; Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight and the evolution of Leptocleididae, a controversial clade ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 11 December 2012)

A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group ⬇️

scholarly article by Serjoscha W. Evers & Roger B. J. Benson published 18 July 2018 in Palaeontology

A quantitative method for inferring locomotory shifts in amniotes during ontogeny, its application to dinosaurs and its bearing on the evolution of posture

scientific article published in 2020

A redescription of 'Megalosaurus' hesperis (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Inferior Oolite (Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) of Dorset, United Kingdom

scholarly article by Roger Benson published in November 2008

A southern tyrant reptile

scientific article

A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

scientific article published in 2015

A troodontid dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of India.

scientific article

Anatomy of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Protostegidae) and marine adaptation during the early evolution of chelonioids ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Biology, not environment, drives major patterns in maximum tetrapod body size through time ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2012)

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians ⬇️

scientific article

Climate-mediated diversification of turtles in the Cretaceous

scientific article

Comparative analysis of the shape and size of the middle ear cavity of turtles reveals no correlation with habitat ecology

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Comparative analysis of vestibular ecomorphology in birds.

scientific article

Competition and constraint drove Cope's rule in the evolution of giant flying reptiles

scientific article (publication date: 2 April 2014)

Cranial anatomy ofThalassiodracon hawkinsii(Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Early Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom

scientific article (publication date: May 2011)

Cranial ecomorphology of turtles and neck retraction as a possible trigger of ecological diversification

scientific article published in 2022

Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades

scholarly article by Roger Benson published in February 2013

Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes

scientific article published in 2023

Evidence for a Mid-Jurassic Adaptive Radiation in Mammals

scientific article

Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs

scientific article published in 2021

Evolutionary rates of mid-Permian tetrapods from South Africa and the role of temporal resolution in turnover reconstruction

Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility

scientific article

Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition

scientific article

First spinosaurid dinosaur from Australia and the cosmopolitanism of Cretaceous dinosaur faunas

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2011)

Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses

scientific article

High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

scientific article

Histology of the endothermic opah ( sp.) suggests a new structure-function relationship in teleost fish bone

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

How do geological sampling biases affect studies of morphological evolution in deep time? A case study of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) disparity ⬇️

scientific article published on August 20, 2011

Increased pliosaurid dental disparity across the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition

article

Independent origin of large labyrinth size in turtles

scientific article published in 2022

Measurement, variation, and scaling of osteocyte lacunae: a case study in birds.

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2010)

Multi-variate models are essential for understanding vertebrate diversification in deep time

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2012)

Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods

scientific article

New Australovenator hind limb elements pertaining to the holotype reveal the most complete Neovenatorid leg

scientific article

Opalized archosaur remains from the Bulldog Shale (Aptian: Lower Cretaceous) of South Australia

article

Osteology of Huabeisaurus allocotus (Sauropoda: Titanosauriformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of China

scientific article published in 2013

Patterns of mammalian jaw ecomorphological disparity during the Mesozoic/Cenozoic transition

journal article from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences' published in 2019

Peculiar macrophagous adaptations in a new Cretaceous pliosaurid ⬇️

scientific article

Plasticity and Convergence in the Evolution of Short-Necked Plesiosaurs

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Pterosaur diversity: Untangling the influence of sampling biases, Lagerstätten, and genuine biodiversity signals

article

Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage

scientific article

Rates of dinosaur limb evolution provide evidence for exceptional radiation in Mesozoic birds

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Reconstructing the diversity of early terrestrial herbivorous tetrapods

scholarly article by Marianne R. Pearson published in February 2013

Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2012)

The Taxonomic Status of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Oxfordshire, UK

scientific article (publication date: March 2008)

The evolutionary history of polycotylid plesiosaurians

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

scientific article

The phylogenetic origin and evolution of acellular bone in teleost fishes: insights into osteocyte function in bone metabolism

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

scientific article (publication date: 17 May 2012)

The systematics of Late Jurassic tyrannosauroids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Europe and North America

scientific article published in 2012

Theropod fauna from southern Australia indicates high polar diversity and climate-driven dinosaur provinciality

scientific article published in 2012

Three-dimensional characterization of osteocyte volumes at multiple scales, and its relationship with bone biology and genome evolution in ray-finned fishes

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Tracing the patterns of non‐marine turtle richness from the Triassic to the Palaeogene: from origin to global spread

scientific article published in 2020

Turtle body size evolution is determined by lineage‐specific specializations rather than global trends

scientific article published in 2023

Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria

scientific article

Vertebrate palaeobiodiversity patterns and the impact of sampling bias

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