Terrestrial vertebrates and the evolutionary origins of morphological diversity

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Peer reviewed articles (11)

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

Author(s): Kimberley E. J. Chapelle Roger B. J. Benson Josef Stiegler Alejandro Otero Qi Zhao Jonah N. Choiniere
Published in: Palaeontology, 2019, ISSN 1475-4983
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12451

The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

Author(s): Pedro L. Godoy, Roger B. J. Benson, Mario Bronzati, Richard J. Butler
Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Issue 19/1, 2019, ISSN 1471-2148
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1466-4

Morphological divergence in giant fossil dormice

Author(s): Jesse J. Hennekam, Roger B. J. Benson, Victoria L. Herridge, Nathan Jeffery, Enric Torres-Roig, Josep Antoni Alcover, Philip G. Cox
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1938, 2020, Page(s) 20202085, ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2085

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

Author(s): Gemma Louise Benevento, Roger B. J. Benson, Matt Friedman
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 286/1902, 2019, Page(s) 20190347, ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0347

Two Early Cretaceous Fossils Document Transitional Stages in Alvarezsaurian Dinosaur Evolution

Author(s): Xing Xu, Jonah Choiniere, Qingwei Tan, Roger B.J. Benson, James Clark, Corwin Sullivan, Qi Zhao, Fenglu Han, Qingyu Ma, Yiming He, Shuo Wang, Hai Xing, Lin Tan
Published in: Current Biology, 2018, ISSN 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.057

The dentary of Wareolestes rex (Megazostrodontidae): a new specimen from Scotland and implications for morganucodontan tooth replacement

Author(s): Elsa Panciroli, Roger B. J. Benson, Stig Walsh
Published in: Papers in Palaeontology, Issue 3/3, 2017, Page(s) 373-386, ISSN 2056-2802
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1079

Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution

Author(s): Roger B. J. Benson, Gene Hunt, Matthew T. Carrano, Nicolás Campione
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 61/1, 2018, Page(s) 13-48, ISSN 0031-0239
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12329

Comparative analysis of vestibular ecomorphology in birds

Author(s): Roger B. J. Benson, Ethan Starmer-Jones, Roger A. Close, Stig A. Walsh
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 231/6, 2017, Page(s) 990-1018, ISSN 0021-8782
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12726

New partial dentaries of amphitheriid mammalian Palaeoxonodon ooliticus from Scotland, and posterior dentary morphology in early cladotherians

Author(s): Elsa Panciroli, Roger Benson, Richard Butler
Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Issue 63, 2018, ISSN 0567-7920
DOI: 10.4202/app.00434.2017

Dinosaur Macroevolution and Macroecology

Author(s): Roger B.J. Benson
Published in: Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Issue 49/1, 2018, Page(s) 379-408, ISSN 1543-592X
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110617-062231

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

Author(s): Blair W. McPhee, Roger B.J. Benson, Jennifer Botha-Brink, Emese M. Bordy, Jonah N. Choiniere
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 28/19, 2018, Page(s) 3143-3151.e7, ISSN 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.063