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2025
The Drivers of Mesozoic Neoselachian Success and Resilience
Staggl, M. A., De Gracia, C., López-Romero, F. A., Stumpf, S., Villalobos-Segura, E., Benton, M. J., Kriwet, J. & Moya, A. (Editor), 1 Feb 2025, In: Biology. 14, 2, 19 p., 142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction
Mehmood, A., Singh, S. A., Elsler, A. & Benton, M. J., 5 Mar 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 3, 241200.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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2024
A double-edged sword: Evolutionary novelty along deep-time diversity oscillation in an iconic group of predatory insects (Neuroptera: Mantispoidea)
Li, H., Zhuo, D., Wang, B., Nakamine, H., Yamamoto, S., Zhang, W., Jepson, J., Ohl, M., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Nyunt, T. T., Engel, M., Benton, M., Donoghue, P. C. J. & Liu, X., 23 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Systematic Biology. syae068.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Artificial intelligence in paleontology
Yu, C., Qin, F., Watanabe, A., Yao, W., Li, Y., Qin, Z., Liu, Y., Wang, H., Jiangzuo, Q., Hsiang, A., Ma, C., Rayfield, E. J., Benton, M. & Xu, X., 1 May 2024, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 252, 104765.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Endocranial development in non-avian dinosaurs reveals an ontogenetic brain trajectory distinct from extant archosaurs
King, L., Zhao, Q., Dufeau, D. L., Kawabe, S., Witmer, L., Zhou, C.-F., Rayfield, E. J., Benton, M. J. & Watanabe, A., 28 Aug 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 10 p., 7415.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Finding the world’s oldest mammals: sieving, dialectical materialism, and squabbles
Benton, M., Gill, P. G. & Whiteside, D. I., 1 May 2024, In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 200, 3, p. 796–824 29 p., zlad089.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Latest Triassic terrestrial microvertebrate assemblages from caves on the Mendip palaeoisland, S.W. England, at Emborough, Batscombe and Highcroft Quarries
Cawthorne, M. J., Whiteside, D. I. & Benton, M., 22 Feb 2024, In: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 135, 1, p. 105-130 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Late Triassic †Cryptovaranoides microlanius is a squamate, not an archosauromorph
Whiteside, D. I., Chambi-Trowell, S. A. V. & Benton, M. J., 27 Nov 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 11, 23 p., 231874.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha
Shipley, A. E., Elsler, A., Singh, S. A., Stubbs, T. L. & Benton, M. J., 7 Feb 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 2, p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Microvertebrates from the basal Rhaetian Bone Bed (Late Triassic) at Lavernock, South Wales
Evans, O. J., Duffin, C. J., Hildebrandt, C. & Benton, M., 1 Aug 2024, In: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 135, 3, p. 321-334 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Blue Anchor Bay, Somerset
Renaud, M., Duffin, C. J., Hildebrandt, C. & Benton, M. J., 22 Oct 2024, In: Geological Magazine. 161, e8.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Mid-Miocene terrestrial carbon isotope shift driven by atmospheric CO2 in the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau
Zhao, Y., Wu, F., Fang, X., Song, Y. & Benton, M., 1 Jan 2024, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 633, 111877.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Morphological innovation did not drive diversification in Mesozoic-Cenozoic brachiopods
Guo, Z., Benton, M. J., Stubbs, T. L. & Chen, Z.-Q., 1 Oct 2024, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 8, 10, p. 1948-1958 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Onset of the Rhaetian Transgression in deep waters at Lilstock, North Somerset: Microvertebrate faunas
Lole Durbin, O., Duffin, C. J., Hildebrandt, C. & Benton, M., 1 Apr 2024, In: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 135, 2, p. 181-195 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Predatory synapsid ecomorphology signals growing dynamism of late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems
Singh, S. A., Elsler, A., Stubbs, T. L., Rayfield, E. J. & Benton, M. J., 17 Feb 2024, In: Communications Biology. 7, 201.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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2023
A Coelophysoidea (Dinosauria, Theropoda) femur from the Tytherington fissures (Rhaetian, Late Triassic), Bristol, UK
Kirmse , J. P. S., Benton, M., Hildebrandt, C., Langer, M. C. & Marsola, J. C. A., 1 Oct 2023, In: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 134, 5-6, p. 562-572 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism
Yang, Z., Jiang, B., Benton, M. J., Xu, X., McNamara, M. E. & Hone, D. W. E., 26 Jul 2023, In: Proceedings. Biological sciences. 290, 2003, p. 20231102 20231102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Author Correction: Divergent strategies in cranial biomechanics and feeding ecology of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs
Ballell, A., Mai, B. & Benton, M. J., 9 Nov 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, p. 19581 19581.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Guo, Z., Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Benton, M. J. & Chen, Z.-Q., 9 Sept 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 5566.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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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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Divergent strategies in cranial biomechanics and feeding ecology of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs
Ballell Mayoral, A., Mai, B. & Benton, M., 25 Oct 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, 18242.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Exceptionally preserved conodont natural assemblages from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota, Yunnan Province, China: Implications for architecture of conodont feeding apparatus
Huang, J., Martinez-Perez, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, K., Luo, M., Wen, W., Zhou, C., Min, X., Ma, Z., Xie, T., Benton, M. & Donoghue, P. C. J., 12 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Earth Science. 34, 6, p. 1762-1776 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
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Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes
Jiang, B., He, Y., Elsler, A., Wang, S., Keating, J. N., Song, J., Kearns, S. L. & Benton, M. J., 12 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 7, 7, p. 1131-1140 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales
Fang, Z.-C., Li, J.-L., Yan, C.-B., Zou, Y.-R., Tian, L., Zhao, B., Benton, M. J., Cheng, L. & Lai, X.-L., 8 Aug 2023, In: BMC Ecology and Evolution. 23, 1, 36.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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First occurrence of hybodontid teeth in the Luoping Biota (Middle Triassic, Anisian) and recovery of the marine ecosystem after the end-Permian mass extinction
Wen, W., Zhang, Q., Kriwet, J., Hu, S., Zhou, C., Huang, J., Cui, X., Min, X. & Benton, M. J., 1 May 2023, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 617, 111471.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (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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Fungal-induced fossil biomineralization
Luo, M., Li, Z., Su, M., Gadd, G. M., Yin, Z., Benton, M. J., Pan, Y., Zheng, D., Zhao, T., Li, Z. & Chen, Y., 24 May 2023, In: Current Biology. 33, 12, p. 2417-2424.e2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Geology and microvertebrate faunas of the Rhaetian Westbury Formation of Doniford Bay, Somerset
Tayler, J., Duffin, C. J., Hildebrandt, C., Parker, A. & Benton, M. J., 1 Apr 2023, In: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 134, 2, p. 166-182 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Palaeobiology: Rapid succession during mass extinction
Benton, M. J., 5 Jun 2023, In: Current Biology. 33, 11, p. R436-R440Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia (Reptilia: Diapsida) revealed by a new basal pachypleurosaur from the Lower Triassic of China
Liu, Q., Cheng, L., Stubbs, T. L., Moon, B. C., Benton, M. J., Yan, C. & Tian, L., 31 Aug 2023, In: BMC Ecology and Evolution. 23, 1, 10 p., 44.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Rethinking the egg
Benton, M. J., 20 Nov 2023, In: National Science Review. 11, 2 p., nwad288.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The first dinosaurs in China: Dating Late Triassic footprint fossils from the Sichuan Basin
Peng, S., Liu, J., Benton, M. J., Jin, X. & Shi, Z., 1 May 2023, In: Gondwana Research. 117, p. 261-273 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts
Taylor, M. A. & Benton, M. J., 3 Mar 2023, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 180, 2, jgs2022-053.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The locomotor ecomorphology of Mesozoic marine reptiles
Gutarra, S., Stubbs, T. L., Moon, B. C., Heighton, B. H. & Benton, M. J., 1 Mar 2023, In: Palaeontology. 66, 2, e12645.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. 33, 6, p. 1059-1070.e4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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2022
A colourful view of the origin of dinosaur feathers
Benton, M. J., 20 Apr 2022, In: Nature. 604, 7907, p. 630-631 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
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A new horseshoe crab from the Permian-Triassic transition of South China: Xiphosurids as key components of post-extinction trophic webs
Hu, S.-X., Feldmann, R. M., Schweitzer, C. E., Benton, M. J., Huang, J., Wen, W., Min, X., Qiyue, Z., Zhou, C. & Ma, Z., 15 Sept 2022, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 602, 9 p., 111178.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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A Triassic crown squamate
Whiteside, D. I., Chambi-Trowell, S. A. V. & Benton, M., 2 Dec 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 48, p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Author Correction: Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions
Gutarra, S., Stubbs, T. L., Moon, B. C., Palmer, C. & Benton, M. J., 19 May 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5, 1, p. 499 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity
Cross, S. R. R., Moon, B. C., Stubbs, T. L., Rayfield, E. J. & Benton, M., 23 Mar 2022, In: Palaeontology. 65, 2, 24 p., e12590.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs
Ballell, A., Benton, M. & Rayfield, E. J., 16 Dec 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 50, 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Dietary niche partitioning in Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs from Strawberry Bank
Jamison-Todd, S., Moon, B. C., Rowe, A. J., Williams, M. & Benton, M. J., 9 Nov 2022, In: Journal of Anatomy. 241, 6, p. 1409-1423 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous
Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Silvestro, D. & Benton, M., 18 May 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 2751.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Improving paleoenvironment in North China aided Triassic biotic recovery on land following the end-Permian mass extinction
Zhu, Z., Yongqing Liu, Hongwei Kuang, Andrew J. Newell, Nan Peng, Mingming Cui & Benton, M., 1 Sept 2022, In: Global and Planetary Change. 216, 103914.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions
Gutarra, S., Stubbs, T. L., Moon, B. C., Palmer, C. & Benton, M. J., 28 Apr 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5, 1, p. 380 380.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Phylogenetic relationships of the European trilophosaurids Tricuspisaurus thomasi and Variodens inopinatus
Chambi-Trowell, S. A. V., Whiteside, D. I., Skinner, M. M., Benton, M. & Rayfield, E. J., 11 Feb 2022, In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41, 4, 12 p., e1999250 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots
Cermeño, P., García-Comas, C., Pohl, A., Williams, S., Benton, M. J., Chaudhary, C., Le Gland, G., Müller, R. D., Ridgwell, A. & Vallina, S. M., 21 Jul 2022, In: Nature. 607, 7919, p. 507-511 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Reply to: Revisiting life history and morphological proxies for early mammaliaform metabolic rates
Newham, E., Gill, P. G., Benton, M. J., Brewer, P., Gostling, N. J., Haberthür, D., Jernvall, J., Kankanpää, T., Kallonen, A., Navarro, C., Pacureanu, A., Richards, K., Robson Brown, K., Schneider, P., Suhonen, H., Tafforeau, P., Williams, K., Zeller-Plumhoff, B. & Corfe, I. J., 23 Sept 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, p. 5564 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Reply to: ‘Reconstructed evolutionary patterns from crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate the impact of failure to log-transform body size data’
Stockdale, M. T. & Benton, M., 25 Feb 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5, 1, p. 170 1 p., 170.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Resilience of infaunal ecosystems during the Early Triassic greenhouse Earth
Feng, X., Chen, Z.-Q., Benton, M. J., Su, C., Bottjer, D. J., Cribb, A. T., Li, Z., Zhao, L., Zhu, G., Huang, Y. & Guo, Z., 29 Jun 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 26, p. eabo0597Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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