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List of works by Marcello Ruta

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

scientific article (publication date: 12 September 2008)

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

scientific article

Early tetrapod relationships revisited

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics

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Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. I. Rapid initial diversification followed by decrease in rates of character change

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2006)

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

scientific article (publication date: 17 May 2011)

The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2013)

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

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

The first 50Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2008)

Ever Since Owen: Changing Perspectives on the Early Evolution of Tetrapods

scientific article published in 2008

What defines an adaptive radiation? Macroevolutionary diversification dynamics of an exceptionally species-rich continental lizard radiation

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The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data.

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

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Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality

scientific article published on 22 March 2013

Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. II. Differing constraints on available character space among clades

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2006)

Evolution of morphological disparity in pterosaurs

The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality

article by Michael J. Benton et al published February 2013 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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

A supertree of early tetrapods

scientific article

Convergence and divergence in the evolution of cat skulls: temporal and spatial patterns of morphological diversity

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Elevated Extinction Rates as a Trigger for Diversification Rate Shifts: Early Amniotes as a Case Study

scientific article

Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish-tetrapod transition

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2014)

Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna

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Brief review of the stylophoran debate

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

scientific article published in 2008

Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction

scientific article

Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity?

article by Alexander J. Hetherington et al published 31 March 2015 in Palaeontology

Evolution of parental incubation behaviour in dinosaurs cannot be inferred from clutch mass in birds

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2013)

Early tetrapod evolution

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

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

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The Fossil Record of Early Tetrapods: Worker Effort and the End-Permian Mass Extinction

article published in 2010

Phylogenetic Stability, Tree Shape, and Character Compatibility: A Case Study Using Early Tetrapods

scientific article

Acherontiscus caledoniae: the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod.

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The BrachyopoidHadrokkosaurus bradyifrom the Early Middle Triassic of Arizona, and a Phylogenetic Analysis of Lower Jaw Characters in Temnospondyl Amphibians

scholarly article by Marcello Ruta & John R. Bolt published December 2008 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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

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Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls

A Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hindlimbs

scientific article published on 14 April 2022

A review of the stem amniote Eldeceeon rolfei from the Viséan of East Kirkton, Scotland

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group

scientific article published in 2019

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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Effects of phylogeny and locomotor style on the allometry of body mass and pelvic dimensions in birds

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Molecular phylogenies map to biogeography better than morphological ones

scientific article published in 2022