Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My interests include the diversification of life through time, quality of the fossil record, shapes of phylogenies, age-clade congruence, mass extinctions, Triassic ecosystem evolution, basal diapsid phylogeny, basal archosaurs and the origin of the dinosaurs.
Current research projects focus on (1) Innovation in the phylogeny of tetrapods, assessed by modelling the evolution of all tetrapods living and extinct against Earth history and biological trait data using state-of-the art phylogenetic comparative and Bayesian methods; (2) The end-Permian mass extinction, the greatest mass extinction of all time, and especially its effects on terrestrial organisms and their recovery from devastation; this involves fieldwork in Russia and China; (3) Exceptionally preserved Mesozoic vertebrate faunas from various locations.
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Climate and carbon dioxide during the end-Permian hyperthermal biosphere crisis
1/01/23 → 30/09/23
Project: Research, Parent
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Climate and carbon dioxide during the end-Permian hyperthermal biosphere crisis
1/01/23 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
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EVOFF: Exploring evolution of feather function in early birds and dinosaurs
1/09/22 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
Research output
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Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation"
Hou, S., Shi, Q., Benton, M. J. & Solounias, N., 17 Feb 2023, In: Science. 379, 6633, eadd9559.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals
Qin, Z., Liao, C., Benton, M. & Rayfield, E. J., 16 Feb 2023, In: Communications Biology. 6, 1, 181.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The stability and collapse of marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Huang, Y., Chen, Z-Q., Roopnarine, P. D., Benton, M. J., Zhao, L., Feng, X. & Li, Z., 27 Mar 2023, In: Current biology : CB. 33, 6, p. 1059-1070.e4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Datasets
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An effect size statistical framework for investigating sexual dimorphism in non-avian dinosaurs and other extinct taxa
Saitta, E. T. (Contributor), Stockdale, M. T. (Contributor), Longrich, N. (Contributor), Bonhomme, V. (Contributor), Benton, M. J. (Contributor), Cuthill, I. C. (Contributor) & Makovicky, P. (Contributor), Dryad, 12 Aug 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kkwh70s2k, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.kkwh70s2k
Dataset
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Data from: The Middle Triassic procolophonid Kapes bentoni: computed tomography of the skull and skeleton
Zaher, M. (Contributor), Coram, R. R. (Contributor) & Benton, M. J. (Contributor), Dryad, 2 Jul 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.02f33n6, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.02f33n6
Dataset
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Supplementary data from: Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction
Wan, J. (Creator), Foster, W. (Creator), Tian, L. (Contributor), Stubbs, T. (Contributor), Benton, M. J. (Contributor), Qiu, X. (Creator) & Yuan, A. (Creator), Dryad, 2 Nov 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.59zw3r25v, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.59zw3r25v and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/4243495 (show fewer)
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Activities
- 9 Editorial activity
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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Journal)
Michael J Benton (Editor)
2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Historical Biology (Journal)
Michael J Benton (Editor)
1997Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Journal)
Michael J Benton (Editor)
1997Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity