List of works by Michael J. Benton

150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency

150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber

scientific article (publication date: December 2016)

A NEW GENUS OF RHYNCHOSAUR FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND

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A New Basal Actinopterygian Fish from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Luoping, Yunnan Province, Southwest China

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A New Metriorhynchid Crocodilian (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Wiltshire, UK

article

A Palaeozoic whodunnit

scientific article published in Nature

A Rhaetian microvertebrate fauna from Stowey Quarry, Somerset, U.K

A distinctive Late Triassic microvertebrate fissure fauna and a new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from Woodleaze Quarry, Gloucestershire, UK

article

A diverse trackway-dominated marine ichnoassemblage from the Lower Triassic in the northern Paleotethys: Ichnology and implications for biotic recovery

scholarly article by Xueqian Feng published in December 2017

A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria

scientific article

A gigantic nothosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and its implication for the Triassic biotic recovery

scientific article

A marine vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic of Somerset, and a review of British placodonts

article

A new Berriasian species ofGoniopholis(Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus

article

A new Late Jurassic turtle from Spain: phylogenetic implications, taphonomy and palaeoecology

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A new Minisauripus site from the Lower Cretaceous of China: Tracks of small adults or juveniles?

article

A new crurotarsan archosaur from the Late Triassic of South Wales

scientific article published on 4 May 2019

A new millipede (Diplopoda, Helminthomorpha) from the Middle Triassic Luoping biota of Yunnan, Southwest China

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A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China

article

A primitive confuciusornithid bird from China and its implications for early avian flight

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A reassessment of thePteraichnusichnospecies from the Early Cretaceous of Soria Province, Spain

article

A review of Fins into Limbs, edited by Brian Hall

A sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Triassic (Carman) of southern Brazil

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A supertree of temnospondyli: cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods

scientific article

Alick D. Walker 1925–1999: an appreciation

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2002)

Altered fluvial patterns in North China indicate rapid climate change linked to the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

An Enigmatic Neodiapsid Reptile from the Middle Triassic of England

scientific article

An evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of the pterosaurs among archosauromorph reptiles

scholarly article by David W. E. Hone & Michael J. Benton published January 2007 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

An injured pachypleurosaur (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota indicating predation pressure in the Mesozoic

scholarly article

An island of dwarfs — Reconstructing the Late Cretaceous Haţeg palaeoecosystem

scientific article published in 2010

Analysing diversification through time: reply to Sepkoski and Miller

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Anatomy and systematics of the prosauropod dinosaurThecodontosaurus antiquusfrom the upper Triassic of southwest England

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Apparatus architecture of the conodont Nicoraella kockeli (Gondolelloidea, Prioniodinina) constrains functional interpretations

scientific article published in 2019

Archibald Geikie and the Elgin reptiles

Archosaur remains from the Otter Sandstone Formation (Middle Triassic, late Anisian) of Devon, southern UK

article by Michael J. Benton published January 2011 in Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Archosauromorph extinction selectivity during the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction ⬇️

article

Artificial intelligence in paleontology

Aspects of the thermal ecology of the rusty crayfish Orconectes rusticus (Girard).

scientific article published on February 1990

Assessing sampling of the fossil record in a geographically and stratigraphically constrained dataset: the Chalk Group of Hampshire, southern UK ⬇️

article by Fiona M. Walker et al published 22 December 2016 in Journal of the Geological Society

Assessing the quality of the fossil record: insights from vertebrates

Author Correction: Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions

scientific article published on 19 May 2022

Author Correction: Niche partitioning shaped herbivore macroevolution through the early Mesozoic

correction of a scholarly article

BOOK REVIEWS

Basic Palaeontology

book by Michael Benton

Bedload abrasion and the in situ fragmentation of bivalve shells

Belowground rhizomes in paleosols: The hidden half of an Early Devonian vascular plant

scientific article

Benton Classification

taxonomy ranking describing Dinosauria created by Micheal Benton

Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

scientific article (publication date: March 2012)

Biodiversity on land and in the sea

scientific article published in 2001

Biodiversity on land and in the sea

Biogeography and geometric morphometrics of conchostracans (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of Cromhall Quarry, UK

scholarly article by Jacob D. Morton et al published 8 August 2017 in Palaeontology

Biostratigraphic correlation and mass extinction during the Permian-Triassic transition in terrestrial-marine siliciclastic settings of South China

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Biostratigraphy and geometric morphometrics of conchostracans (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of Cromhall Quarry, UK

scientific article published in 2017

Body length of bony fishes was not a selective factor during the biggest mass extinction of all time

article published in 2017

Body size evolution in Mesozoic birds

scientific article

Bringing up baby

scientific article published in Nature

Calcretes, fluviolacustrine sediments and subsidence patterns in Permo-Triassic salt-walled minibasins of the south Urals, Russia

scholarly article by ANDREW J. NEWELL et al published 22 February 2012 in Sedimentology

Calibrated Diversity, Tree Topology and the Mother of Mass Extinctions: The Lesson of Temnospondyls

scientific article published in 2008

Carboniferous (Tournaisian) fish assemblages from the Isle of Bute, Scotland: systematics and palaeoecology

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Catastrophic ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

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Cellular preservation of musculoskeletal specializations in the Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles

scientific article (publication date: June 1985)

Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity

scholarly article

Comment on “Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation”

scientific article published on 16 February 2023

Complete biotic and sedimentary records of the Permian–Triassic transition from Meishan section, South China: Ecologically assessing mass extinction and its aftermath

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Completeness of the fossil record and the validity of sampling proxies at outcrop level

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Complex rostral neurovascular system in a giant pliosaur

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Congruence between phylogenetic and stratigraphic data on the history of life

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 1997)

Congruence of Morphological and Molecular Phylogenies

scholarly article by Davide Pisani et al published 27 July 2007 in Acta Biotheoretica

Convergence and functional evolution of longirostry in crocodylomorphs

scientific article published in 2019

Cope's Rule in the Pterosauria, and differing perceptions of Cope's Rule at different taxonomic levels

scientific article published in May 2007

Corrigendum to “Latest Triassic marine sharks and bony fishes from a bone bed preserved in a burrow system, from Devon, UK” [Proc. Geol. Assoc. 126 (1) (2015) 130–142]

scholarly article published in Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Cranial anatomy, taxonomic implications and palaeopathology of an Upper Jurassic Pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Westbury, Wiltshire, UK

scientific article (publication date: 16 May 2012)

Criticality and scaling in evolutionary ecology

scientific article published in April 1999

Crocodylomorph eggs and eggshells from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Upper Cretaceous of Brazil

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Crown clades in vertebrate nomenclature: correcting the definition of Crocodylia

scientific article

Dating placentalia: Morphological clocks fail to close the molecular fossil gap

scientific article

Dating the tree of life

scientific article published in June 2003

Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Deep Time: Cladistics, The Revolution in Evolution

Dictyodora and associated trace fossils from the Palaeozoic of Thuringia

scientific article published in 2007

Dictyodora and associated trace fossils from the Palaeozoic of Thuringia

scientific article published in 1982

Dietary niche partitioning in Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs from Strawberry Bank

scholarly article

Digit-only sauropod pes trackways from China--evidence of swimming or a preservational phenomenon?

scientific article

Dinosaur Success in the Triassic: A Noncompetitive Ecological Model

article

Dinosaur biodiversity declined well before the asteroid impact, influenced by ecological and environmental pressures

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Dinosaur eggsl and babies

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton published January 1995 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Dinosaur evolution. A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales

scientific article published in July 2014

Dinosaur extinction and the end of an era

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton published October 1996 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Dinosaur fossils with soft parts

scientific article

Dinosaurs

scientific article

Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of southern Tunisia

article published in 2000

Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Galve area, NE Spain

scientific article (publication date: June 2007)

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

scientific article

Dinosaurs and the island rule: The dwarfed dinosaurs from Haţeg Island

scientific article (publication date: July 2010)

Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years before their final extinction

scientific article (publication date: 3 May 2016)

Dinosaurs in the Early and Mid Triassic?—The footprint evidence from Britain

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Dinosaurs: An Illustrated History.Edwin H. Colbert

Disentangling rock record bias and common-cause from redundancy in the British fossil record

scientific article

Disruption of playa–lacustrine depositional systems at the Permo-Triassic boundary: evidence from Vyazniki and Gorokhovets on the Russian Platform

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Diverse tetrapod trackways in the Lower Pennsylvanian Tynemouth Creek Formation, near St. Martins, southern New Brunswick, Canada

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Diversification and extinction in the history of life

scientific article

Diversity dynamics of silurian-early carboniferous land plants in South china

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Diversity in rhynchocephalian Clevosaurus skulls based on CT reconstruction of two Late Triassic species from Great Britain

scientific article published in 2019

Does exceptional preservation distort our view of disparity in the fossil record?

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Dynamics of dental evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs

scientific article

EVOLUTION OF HINDLIMB POSTURE IN ARCHOSAURS: LIMB STRESSES IN EXTINCT VERTEBRATES

scientific article published in 2007

Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) birds and pterosaurs from the Cornet bauxite mine, Romania

scientific article published in 2010

Early Jurassic mass extinction: A global long-term event

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Early Middle Triassic trace fossils from the Luoping Biota, southwestern China: Evidence of recovery from mass extinction

article

Early Pennsylvanian (Langsettian) fish assemblages from the Joggins Formation, Canada, and their implications for palaeoecology and palaeogeography

article

Early Triassic wrinkle structures on land: stressed environments and oases for life

scientific article

Early dinosaurs: A phylogenetic study

scholarly article by Max C. Langer & Michael J. Benton published January 2006 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Early radiation of the Neoselachian sharks in Western Europe

scientific article published in 1999

Earth systems: The biosphere rebooted

scientific article published in Nature

Ecological succession among late palaeozoic and mesozoic tetrapods

scientific article published in 1979

Ecomorphological diversifications of Mesozoic marine reptiles: the roles of ecological opportunity and extinction

Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates at the Permian-Triassic boundary in Russia

scientific article

Ectothermy and the Success of Dinosaurs

scientific article published on 01 September 1979

Effects of body plan evolution on the hydrodynamic drag and energy requirements of swimming in ichthyosaurs

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Environmental drivers of body size evolution in crocodile-line archosaurs

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Environmental instability prior to end-Permian mass extinction reflected in biotic and facies changes on shallow carbonate platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin (South China)

article

Erpetosuchus, a crocodile-like basal archosaur from the Late Triassic of Elgin, Scotland

article

Evolution and deep time

scientific article published in 2013

Evolution in four dimensions: Genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life

scientific article (publication date: November 2005)

Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Evolution of morphological disparity in pterosaurs

Evolution on Two Scales A review by M. J. Benton. Evolution and Ecology. The Pace of Life. By K. D. Bennett. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. xviii + 241 pages. ISBN: 0-521-39028-1 (hardback), 0-52139921-1 (paperback). Price $69.95/f50.00

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Evolution: Interpretations of mass extinction

scientific article published in Nature

Evolutionary biology: New take on the Red Queen

scientific article published in January 2010

Evolutionary patterns from mass originations and mass extinctions

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 1999)

Exceptional appendage and soft-tissue preservation in a Middle Triassic horseshoe crab from SW China.

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

article

Exploring macroevolution using modern and fossil data

scientific article

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

FIRST OCCURRENCE OF FOOTPRINTS OF LARGE THERAPSIDS FROM THE UPPER PERMIAN OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA

scholarly article by MIKHAIL V. SURKOV et al published May 2007 in Palaeontology

Filling the ceratosaur gap: A new ceratosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Spain

article

Finding the tree of life: matching phylogenetic trees to the fossil record through the 20th century

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2001)

Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications

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Form and Function and Phylogeny A review by M. J. Benton. Life's Splendid Drama. By P. J. Bowler. Chicago University Press. 1996. 533 pages. f30.25 (US $37.95). ISBN: 0-226-06921-4 (cloth), 0-226-06922-2 (paper)

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Fossil Record: Quality

Fossil Record: Quality

Fossil quality and naming dinosaurs

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2008)

Fossil reptiles from ancient caves

scientific article published in Nature

Fossilization of soft tissues

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

scientific article

Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds.

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Framboidal pyrite evidence for persistent low oxygen levels in shallow-marine facies of the Nanpanjiang Basin during the Permian-Triassic transition

article by Yifan Xiao et al published December 2018 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Functional anatomy and feeding biomechanics of a giant Upper Jurassic pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Weymouth Bay, Dorset, UK

scientific article

Functional morphology in vertebrate paleontology

scientific article published in 1996

Geographic variation in the garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) of the north-central United States, a multivariate study

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton published April 1980 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Giant tortoises down under

scientific article published in Nature

Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus ( Nicoraella ) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, southwestern China

article

Grit not grass: Concordant patterns of early origin of hypsodonty in Great Plains ungulates and Glires

scientific article (publication date: December 2012)

HOW DID LIFE BECOME SO DIVERSE? THE DYNAMICS OF DIVERSIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE FOSSIL RECORD AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

Head kinematics and feeding adaptations of the Permian and Triassic dicynodonts

article

High rates of evolution preceded the origin of birds

scientific article

Histology and postural change during the growth of the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis

scientific article

How birds became birds

scientific article published in Science

How to find a dinosaur, and the role of synonymy in biodiversity studies

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton published 2008 in Paleobiology

How to kill (almost) all life: the end-Permian extinction event

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

article

Ichnology: Sedimentological use of dinosaurs

scientific article published in Nature

Ichthyosauria from the Upper Lias of Strawberry Bank, England

scientific article published on 2011

If it was good enough for Darwin…

Impact in the Caribbean and death of the dinosaurs

scientific article published in 1994

Impacts of global warming on Permo-Triassic terrestrial ecosystems

article

Interplay of tectonics and climate on a transverse fluvial system, Upper Permian, Southern Uralian Foreland Basin, Russia

scholarly article by Andrew J Newell et al published August 1999 in Sedimentary Geology

Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions

scientific article published on 28 April 2022

Late Triassic Extinctions and the Origin of the Dinosaurs

scientific article published in Science

Latest Triassic marine sharks and bony fishes from a bone bed preserved in a burrow system, from Devon, UK

Leptolepid otoliths from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) Lower Weald Clay (southern England)

article

Life

scientific article published in 2003

Lilliput effect in freshwater ostracods during the Permian–Triassic extinction

scholarly article by Daoliang Chu published in October 2015

Limuloid trackways from Permian-Triassic continental successions of North China

article

Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land

scientific article

Live birth in an archosauromorph reptile

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Lizards(Reptilia, Sauria)

Lystrosaurus georgi, a dicynodont from the Lower Triassic of Russia

scholarly article by Mikhail V. Surkov et al published 27 June 2005 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Macroevolution: Large-scale replacements in the history of life

scientific article published in Nature

Macroevolution: Predation by drilling gastropods

scientific article published in Nature

Macroevolution: The Red Queen put to the test

scientific article published in Nature

Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia: is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus ) a living fossil?

article published in 2017

Macroevolutionary patterns in the evolutionary radiation of archosaurs (Tetrapoda: Diapsida)

Magnetostratigraphy of Permian/Triassic boundary sequences in the Cis-Urals, Russia: No evidence for a major temporal hiatus

article

Major events in early vertebrate evolution

scientific article published in 2007

Major events in early vertebrate evolution

article

Marine flooding event in continental Triassic facies identified by a nothosaur and placodont bonebed (South Iberian Paleomargin)

scientific article published in 2013

Mass extinction among non-marine tetrapods

scientific article published in Nature

Mass extinctions among tetrapods and the quality of the fossil record

scientific article

Mass extinctions in the fossil record of late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods

Mass extinctions: A brief history of catastrophe

Mass extinctions: Apocalypse now?

Mass extinctions: Patterns of disasters and rebounds

Mass extinctions: The terrible two

Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: Investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale

article

Michael Benton

Microbial mats in the terrestrial Lower Triassic of North China and implications for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

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Microvertebrates from multiple bone beds in the Rhaetian of the M4–M5 motorway junction, South Gloucestershire, U.K

Microvertebrates from the classic Rhaetian bone beds of Manor Farm Quarry, near Aust (Bristol, UK)

article by Harry Allard et al published December 2015 in Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Middle Triassic conodont apparatus architecture revealed by synchrotron X-ray microtomography

Missing data and rhynchosaur phylogeny

scholarly article by Mark Wilkinson & Michael J. Benton published August 1995 in Historical Biology

Models for the diversification of life

scientific article published in December 1997

Models for the rise of the dinosaurs

scientific article published on January 2014

Modern avian radiation across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

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Molecular and morphological phylogenies of mammals: congruence with stratigraphic data

scientific article

More than one event in the late Triassic mass extinction

scientific article published in Nature

Multifaceted disparity approach reveals dinosaur herbivory flourished before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

scholarly article by Klara K. Nordén et al published November 2018 in Paleobiology

Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article

Murchison's first sighting of the Permian, at Vyazniki in 1841

article by Michael J. Benton et al published January 2010 in Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Museum policy

scientific article published in Nature

Naming dinosaur species: the performance of prolific authors

article

Naming the Bristol dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus: politics and science in the 1830s

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton published September 2012 in Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Neoselachian (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) diversity across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

scholarly article by Jürgen Kriwet published in November 2004

No gap in the Middle Permian record of terrestrial vertebrates: REPLY

scientific article

Non-integumentary melanosomes can bias reconstructions of the colours of fossil vertebrates

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Nothosaur foraging tracks from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Occurrence of sauropod dinosaur tracks in the Upper Jurassic of Chile (redescription of Iguanodonichnus frenki)

article

On formation-based sampling proxies and why they should not be used to correct the fossil record ⬇️

scientific article published in 2017

On the flux ratio method and the number of valid species names

On the purported presence of fossilized collagen fibres in an ichthyosaur and a theropod dinosaur

scholarly article by Fiann M. Smithwick et al published 17 April 2017 in Palaeontology

Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Origins of Biodiversity

scientific article

Origins of biodiversity

scientific article published in 2012

PROGRESS AND COMPETITION IN MACROEVOLUTION

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Palaentology: Small companions for early dinosaurs

scientific article published in Nature

Palaeobiogeographic relationships of the Haţeg biota — Between isolation and innovation

article

Palaeobiology in mammoth form

scientific article published in Nature

Palaeodiversity and formation counts: redundancy or bias?

article

Palaeoecology of the Late Triassic extinction event in the SW UK

scientific article published in 2008

Palaeoenvironments of vertebrates on the southern shore of Tethys: The nonmarine Early Cretaceous of Tunisia

scientific article published in 2007

Palaeontological data and identifying mass extinctions

scientific article

Palaeontology: Consensus on archosaurs

scientific article published in Nature

Palaeontology: Dinosaurs that fill the gaps

scientific article published in Nature

Palaeontology: Dinosaurs, Boneheads and Recovery from Extinction

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

Palaeontology: No consensus on Archaeopteryx

scientific article published in Nature

Paleo bird spotting

Paleobiology: Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns

scientific article published in Science

Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life

scientific article

Past glories

scientific article published in Nature

Pelagosaurus typusBronn, 1841 (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) from the Upper Lias (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of Somerset, England

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Phylogenetic trees and the unification of systematic biology

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton published December 1990 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Phylogenetically structured variance in felid bite force: the role of phylogeny in the evolution of biting performance

scientific article published on 14 January 2010

Phylogeny of the major tetrapod groups: morphological data and divergence dates

scientific article

Polar dinosaurs and ancient climates

scientific article published in January 1991

Post-Cambrian closure of the deep-water slope-basin taphonomic window

scientific article published in 2003

Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots

scientific article published in 2022

Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and the rise of biodiversity hotspots

Predatory Dinosaurs of the World.Gregory S. Paul

Preface: History of Biodiversity

article published in 2001

Preface: History of Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2001

Preservation of exceptional vertebrate assemblages in Middle Permian fluviolacustrine mudstones of Kotel'nich, Russia: stratigraphy, sedimentology, and taphonomy

scholarly article by Michael J. Benton et al published February 2012 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Primary feather lengths may not be important for inferring the flight styles of Mesozoic birds

article

Professor R. J. G. Savage: an appreciation

scientific article published in 1994

Pruning the tree of life

scientific article published in Nature

Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching

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Quality of the fossil record through time

scientific article

Radiation and extinction: investigating clade dynamics in deep time

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Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time

scientific article

Recovery of Vertebrate faunas from the end-Permian mass extinction

Reply from M.J. Benton

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Reply from R.V. Solé, S.C. Manrubia, M.J. Benton, S. Kauffman and P. Bak

scientific article published in August 1999

Reply to Easteal

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Reply to comments on: Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia: is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus ) a living fossil?

scientific article published in 2018

Reply to the comment on Chu et al., “Lilliput effect in freshwater ostracods during the Permian–Triassic extinction” [ Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 435 (2015): 38–52]

scholarly article by Daoliang Chu published in December 2015

Reply to: No protofeathers on pterosaurs

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Reprint of “Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction”

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Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Resetting the evolution of marine reptiles at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

scientific article (publication date: 17 May 2011)

Resilience of infaunal ecosystems during the Early Triassic greenhouse Earth

scientific article published in 2022

Response

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Response to Comment on "A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales".

scientific article published in October 2014

Response to: Phylogenetic placement, developmental trajectories and evolutionary implications of a feathered dinosaur tail in Mid-Cretaceous amber

scientific article published in March 2017

Robust dinosaur phylogeny?

scientific article published in Nature

Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules

scientific article (publication date: August 2007)

Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland

article

Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of dinosaurs and pterosaurs

scientific article

Sea surface temperature contributes to marine crocodylomorph evolution

scientific article published on 18 August 2014

Seismosaurus: the Earth Shaker

Self-similarity of extinction statistics in the fossil record

scientific article published in Nature

Severe selenium depletion in the Phanerozoic oceans as a factor in three global mass extinction events

scientific article published in 2016

Shelf storm beds on the southern margin of the Welsh Basin: the Wenlock of the Tortworth Inlier, England

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Some unhappy endings

scientific article published in Nature

Speciation in the fossil record

scientific article

Sphenodontid phylogeny and the problems of multiple trees

scholarly article by Mark Wilkinson & Michael J. Benton published 29 January 1996 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: Contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity

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Stratigraphic Indices and Tree Balance

scientific article published in 1997

Studying function and behavior in the fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 2 March 2010)

Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs

scientific article (publication date: 12 September 2008)

Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2011)

THE AERODYNAMICS OF THE BRITISH LATE TRIASSIC KUEHNEOSAURIDAE

scholarly article by Koen Stein et al published July 2008 in Palaeontology

THE EFFECTS OF SAMPLING BIAS ON PALAEOZOIC FAUNAS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MACROEVOLUTIONARY STUDIES

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