Innovation and opportunity in the evolution of life

Project Information

INNOVATION

Grant agreement ID: 788203

DOI 10.3030/788203

Project closed

EC signature date 3 May 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 482 225,00

EU contribution € 2 482 225,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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