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Publications

Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation

Author(s): Thomas L. Stubbs, Stephanie E. Pierce, Armin Elsler, Philip S. L. Anderson, Emily J. Rayfield, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 288/1947, 2021, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0069

A Triassic crown squamate

Author(s): David I. Whiteside, Sofía A. V. Chambi-Trowell, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq8274

Diversity dynamics of microfossils from the Cretaceous to the Neogene show mixed responses to events

Author(s): Katie M. Jamson, Benjamin C. Moon, Andrew J. Fraass
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 65, 2023, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12615

Reviews and syntheses: The clam before the storm – a meta-analysis showing the effect of combined climate change stressors on bivalves

Author(s): Rachel A. Kruft Welton, George Hoppit, Daniela N. Schmidt, James D. Witts, Benjamin C. Moon
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 21, 2024, Page(s) 223-239, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/bg-21-223-2024

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

Author(s): Qiling Liu, Tinglu Yang, Long Cheng, Michael J. Benton, Benjamin C. Moon, Chunbo Yan, Zhihui An, Li Tian
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01309-z

Phylogenetic congruence, conflict and consilience between molecular and morphological data

Author(s): Joseph N Keating, Russell J Garwood, Robert S Sansom
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Issue 23, 2023, ISSN 2730-7182
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-023-02131-z

Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes

Author(s): Baoyu Jiang, Yiming He, Armin Elsler, Shengyu Wang, Joseph N. Keating, Junyi Song, Stuart L. Kearns, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 7, 2023, Page(s) 1131-1140, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02074-0

Triassic Revolution

Author(s): Michael J. Benton, Feixiang Wu
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.899541

Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Author(s): Zhen Guo, Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland, Michael J. Benton, Zhong-Qiang Chen
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41358-8

Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction

Author(s): Junyu Wan, William J. Foster, Li Tian, Thomas L. Stubbs, Michael J. Benton, Xincheng Qiu, Aihua Yuan
Published in: Paleobiology, Issue 47, 2021, Page(s) 402-417, ISSN 0094-8373
Publisher: Paleontological Society
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2020.57

Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

Author(s): Catherine Sheard, Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg, Nico Alioravainen, Samuel E. I. Jones, Claire Vincent, Hannah E. A. MacGregor, Tom P. Bregman, Santiago Claramunt, Joseph A. Tobias
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16313-6

Estimating Ancestral States of Complex Characters: A Case Study on the Evolution of Feathers

Author(s): Pierre Cockx, Michael J Benton, Joseph N Keating
Published in: Systematic Biology, 2025, ISSN 1063-5157
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaf063

Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies

Author(s): David Ocampo, Thilina N. De Silva, Catherine Sheard, Mary Caswell Stoddard
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 378, 2023, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0148

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

Author(s): Susana Gutarra, Thomas L. Stubbs, Benjamin C. Moon, Colin Palmer, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03322-y

The locomotor ecomorphology of Mesozoic marine reptiles

Author(s): Susana Gutarra, Thomas L. Stubbs, Benjamin C. Moon, Beatrice H. Heighton, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 66, 2023, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12645

Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs

Author(s): Jorge A. Herrera-Flores; Armin Elsler; Thomas L. Stubbs; Michael J. Benton
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 65, 2022, Page(s) e12579, ISSN 1475-4983
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12579

Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods

Author(s): Jane C. Reeves, Benjamin C. Moon, Michael J. Benton, Thomas L. Stubbs
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 64/1, 2021, Page(s) 31-49, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12508

Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous

Author(s): Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland, Daniele Silvestro, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30507-0

Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots

Author(s): Pedro Cermeño, Carmen García-Comas, Alexandre Pohl, Simon Williams, Michael J. Benton, Chhaya Chaudhary, Guillaume Le Gland, R. Dietmar Müller, Andy Ridgwell, Sergio M. Vallina
Published in: Nature, Issue 607, 2022, Page(s) 507-511, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04932-6

The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery

Author(s): Long Cheng, Benjamin C. Moon, Chunbo Yan, Ryosuke Motani, Dayong Jiang, Zhihui An, Zichen Fang
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 10, 2022, Page(s) e13569, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13569

Predatory synapsid ecomorphology signals growing dynamism of late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems

Author(s): Suresh A. Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L. Stubbs, Emily J. Rayfield, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05879-2

The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

Author(s): Michael J. Benton; Peter Wilf; Hervé Sauquet; Hervé Sauquet
Published in: Benton , M J , Wilf , P & Sauquet , H 2021 , ' The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity ' , The New phytologist . https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17822, Issue 233, 2022, Page(s) 2017–2035, ISSN 1469-8137
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17822

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

Author(s): Fabien L Condamine, Guillaume Guinot, Michael J Benton, Philip J Currie
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 3833, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23754-0

Nest traits for the world's birds

Author(s): Catherine Sheard, Sally E. Street, Susan D. Healy, Camille A. Troisi, Andrew D. Clark, Antonia Yovcheva, Alexis Trébaol, Karina Vanadzina, Kevin N. Lala
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 206-214, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13783

Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity

Author(s): Samuel R. R. Cross, Benjamin C. Moon, Thomas L. Stubbs, Emily J. Rayfield, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 65, 2023, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12590

Ecomorphological diversification of squamates in the Cretaceous

Author(s): Jorge A. Herrera-Flores, Thomas L. Stubbs, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 8/3, 2021, Page(s) 201961, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201961

Ontogenetic dietary partitioning in a Triassic sauropterygian: implications from a new juvenile specimen of <i>Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis</i> (Reptilia: Diapsida)

Author(s): Qiling Liu, Long Cheng, Thomas L Stubbs, Zichen Fang, Li Tian, Chunbo Yan, Michael J Benton
Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Issue 205, 2025, ISSN 0024-4082
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf126

Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha

Author(s): Amy E. Shipley, Armin Elsler, Suresh A. Singh, Thomas L. Stubbs, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231495

Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia (Reptilia: Diapsida) revealed by a new basal pachypleurosaur from the Lower Triassic of China

Author(s): Qi-Ling Liu, Long Cheng, Thomas L. Stubbs, Benjamin C. Moon, Michael J. Benton, Chun-Bo Yan, Li Tian
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Issue 23, 2023, ISSN 2730-7182
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-023-02150-w

The origin of endothermy in synapsids and archosaurs and arms races in the Triassic

Author(s): Michael J. Benton
Published in: Gondwana Research, 2020, ISSN 1342-937X
Publisher: International Association for Godwana Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2020.08.003

Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations

Author(s): Christopher R. Cooney, Catherine Sheard, Andrew D. Clark, Susan D. Healy, András Liker, Sally E. Street, Camille A. Troisi, Gavin H. Thomas, Tamás Székely, Nicola Hemmings, Alison E. Wright
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16257-x

Phylogenetic analyses of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) using collagen type I protein sequences

Author(s): Virginia L. Harvey, Joseph N. Keating, Michael Buckley
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 201955, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201955

Variable preservation potential and richness in the fossil record of vertebrates

Author(s): Fiona M. Walker, Alexander M. Dunhill, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 63/2, 2019, Page(s) 313-329, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12458

Morphological disparity in theropod jaws: comparing discrete characters and geometric morphometrics

Author(s): Joep Schaeffer, Michael J. Benton, Emily J. Rayfield, Thomas L. Stubbs
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 63/2, 2019, Page(s) 283-299, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12455

Morphological innovation and the evolution of hadrosaurid dinosaurs

Author(s): Thomas L. Stubbs, Michael J. Benton, Armin Elsler, Albert Prieto-Márquez
Published in: Paleobiology, Issue 45/02, 2019, Page(s) 347-362, ISSN 0094-8373
Publisher: Paleontological Society
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2019.9

Early high rates and disparity in the evolution of ichthyosaurs

Author(s): Benjamin C. Moon, Thomas L. Stubbs
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 3/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0779-6

The Clam Before the Storm: A Meta Analysis Showing the Effect of Combined Climate Change Stressors on Bivalves

Author(s): Rachel A. Kruft Welton, George Hoppit, Daniela N. Schmidt, James D. Witts, Benjamin C. Moon
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2024, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-287

The Jurassic rise of squamates as supported by lepidosaur disparity and evolutionary rates

Author(s): Arnau Bolet, Thomas L Stubbs, Jorge A Herrera-Flores, Michael J Benton
Published in: eLife, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.66511

Unique dentition of rhynchosaurs and their two‐phase success as herbivores in the Triassic

Author(s): Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, Robert A. Coram, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 66, 2023, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12654

Viewing conditions predict evolutionary diversity in avian plumage colour

Author(s): Jamie Dunning, Catherine Sheard, John A. Endler
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 292, 2025, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1728

The macroevolutionary dynamics of mammalian sexual size dimorphism

Author(s): Megan E. Jones, Catherine Sheard
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2024, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.31.543075

Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals

Author(s): Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J. Benton, Emily J. Rayfield
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04552-4

Diversification Declines in Major Dinosaurian Clades are not Because of Edge Effects or Incomplete Fossil Sampling

Author(s): Manabu Sakamoto, Michael Benton, Chris Venditti
Published in: Open Science, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-907951/v1

Niche partitioning shaped herbivore macroevolution through the early Mesozoic

Author(s): Suresh A. Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L. Stubbs, Russell Bond, Emily J. Rayfield, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12/1, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23169-x

The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations

Author(s): Daniel Marke, David I. Whiteside, Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, Robert A. Coram, Vincent Fernandez, Alexander Liptak, Elis Newham, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Nature, Issue 647, 2025, Page(s) 663-672, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09496-9

A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification

Author(s): Santiago Claramunt, Catherine Sheard, Joseph W. Brown, Gala Cortés-Ramírez, Joel Cracraft, Michelle M. Su, Brian C. Weeks, Joseph A. Tobias
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 3883-3895.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.004

Dietary niche partitioning in Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs from Strawberry Bank

Author(s): Sarah Jamison‐Todd, Benjamin C. Moon, Andre J. Rowe, Matt Williams, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 241, 2023, Page(s) 1409-1423, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13744

Neuroanatomy of the late Cretaceous Thescelosaurus neglectus (Neornithischia: Thescelosauridae) reveals novel ecological specialisations within Dinosauria

Author(s): David J. Button, Lindsay E. Zanno
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45658-3

150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency

Author(s): Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker, Michael J. Benton, Andrew Meade, Stuart Humphries
Published in: Nature, Issue 587, 2023, Page(s) 83-86, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2858-8

Beak shape and nest material use in birds

Author(s): Catherine Sheard, Sally E. Street, Caitlin Evans, Kevin N. Lala, Susan D. Healy, Shoko Sugasawa
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 378, 2023, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0147

Galeaspid anatomy and the origin of vertebrate paired appendages

Author(s): Zhikun Gai, Qiang Li, Humberto G. Ferrón, Joseph N. Keating, Junqing Wang, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Min Zhu
Published in: Nature, Issue 609, 2022, Page(s) 959-963, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04897-6

Anthropogenic nest material use in a global sample of birds

Author(s): Catherine Sheard, Lucy Stott, Sally E. Street, Susan D. Healy, Shoko Sugasawa, Kevin N. Lala
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, Issue 93, 2024, Page(s) 691-704, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14078

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

Author(s): Jacopo Dal Corso, Massimo Bernardi, Yadong Sun, Haijun Song, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Nereo Preto, Piero Gianolla, Alastair Ruffell, Evelyn Kustatscher, Guido Roghi, Agostino Merico, Sönke Hohn, Alexander R. Schmidt, Andrea Marzoli, Robert J. Newton, Paul B. Wignall, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/38, 2020, Page(s) eaba0099, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0099

Early Triassic terrestrial tetrapod fauna: a review

Author(s): Marco Romano, Massimo Bernardi, Fabio Massimo Petti, Bruce Rubidge, John Hancox, Michael J. Benton
Published in: Earth-Science Reviews, Issue 210, 2025, Page(s) 103331, ISSN 0012-8252
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103331

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