2022
| Benton, M.J., Wilf, P., and Sauquet, H.S. 2022.The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity. New Phytologist 233, 2017–2035 (doi: 10.1111/nph.17822). | |
| Benton, M.J. and Wu, F. 2022. The Triassic Revolution. Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 899541. (doi: https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.899541). | |
| Bolet, A., Stubbs, T.L., Herrera-Flores, J.A., and Benton, M.J. 2022. The Jurassic rise of squamates as supported by lepidosaur disparity and evolutionary rates. <1>eLife 11, e66511. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.66511). | |
| Cermeño, P., García-Comas, C., Pohl, A., Williams, S., Benton, M.J., Chaudhary, C., Le Gland, G., Müler, D., Ridgwell, A., and Vallina, S.M. 2022. Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots. Nature 607, 507–511. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04932-6). | |
| Flannery Sutherland, J.T., Silvestro, D., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous. Nature Communications 13, 2751. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30507-0). | |
| Gutarra, S., Stubbs, T.L., Moon, B.C., Palmer, C., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions. Communications Biology 5, 380. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03322-y). | |
| Herrera-Flores, J.A., Elsler, A., Stubbs, T.L., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs. Palaeontology 65, e12579 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12579). | |
| Stockdale, M.T. and Benton, M.J. 2022. Reply to: ‘Reconstructed evolutionary patterns from crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate the impact of failure to log-transform body size data.’ Communications Biology 5, 170 (doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03072-x). | |
| Tobias, J.A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A.L. and 50 others. 2022. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25, 581-597 (doi: 10.1111/ele.13898). | |
| Triantis, K.A., Rigal, F., Whittaker, R.J., Hume, J.P., Sheard, C., Poursanidis, D., Rolland, J., Sfenthourakis, S., Matthews, T.J., Thébaud, C., and Tobias, J.A. 2022. Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, 1741-1755. (doi: 10.1111/geb.13556). | |
| Whiteside, D.I., Chambi-Trowell, A.A.V., and Benton, M.J. 2022. A Triassic crown squamate. Science Advances 8, eabq8274. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq8274). |
2021
| Benton, M.J. 2021. The origin of endothermy in synapsids and archosaurs and arms races in the Triassic. Gondwana Research 100, 261-289 (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2020.08.003). | |
| Condamine, F.L., Guinot, G., Benton, M.J. and Currie, P.J. 2021. Dinosaur biodiversity declined well before the asteroid impact, influenced by ecological and environmental pressures. Nature Communications 12, art. 3833 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23754-0). Download data here. | |
| Drury, J.P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J.A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Morlon, H. 2021. Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds. PLoS Biology 19(8): e3001270 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001270). | |
| Herrera-Flores, J.A., Stubbs, T.L., and Benton, M.J. 2021. Ecomorphological diversification of squamates in the Cretaceous. Royal Society Open Science 8, art. 201961 (doi: 10.1098/rsos.201961). Download data here. | |
| Howell, N., Sheard, C., Koneru, M., Brockelsby, K., Ono, K., and Caro, T. 2021. Aposematism in mammals. Evolution 75, 2480-2493 (doi: 10.1111/evo.14320). | |
| Qin, Z.C., Qi, Z., Choiniere, J.N., Clark, J.M., Benton, M.J. and Xu, X. 2021. Growth and miniaturization among alvarezsauroid dinosaurs. Current Biology 31, online first. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.013). | |
| Reeves, J.C., Moon, B.C., Benton, M.J., and Stubbs, T.L. 2021. Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods. Palaeontology 64, 31–49 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12508). Supplementary data in Dryad. | |
| Singh, S.A., Elsler, A., Stubbs, T.L., Bond, R., Rayfield, E.R., and Benton, M.J. 2021. Niche partitioning shaped herbivore macroevolution through the early Mesozoic. Nature Communications 12, art. 2796 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23169-x). pdf. Supplementary data here and here. | |
| Stubbs, T.L., Pierce, S.E., Elsler, A., Anderson, P.S.L., Rayfield, E.J., and Benton, M.J. 2021. Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, 20210069 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0069). Supplementary data are available here. | |
| Stockdale, M.T. and Benton, M.J. 2021. Environmental drivers of body size evolution in crocodile-line archosaurs. Communications Biology 4, 38 (doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01561-5). Supplementary data are here. | |
| Vanadzina, K., Phillips, A., Martins, B., Laland, K.N., Webster, M.M., and Sheard, C. 2021. Ecological and behavioural drivers of offspring size in marine teleost fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 2407-2419 (doi: 10.1111/geb.13392). |
2020
| Cooney, C.R., Sheard, C., Clark, A.D., Healy, S.D., Liker, A., Street, S.E., Troisi, C.A., Thomas, G.H., Székely, T., Hemmings, N., Wright, A.E. 2020. Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications 11(1), art. 2383 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16257-x). | |
| Dal Corso, J., Bernardi, M., Sun, Y.D., Song, H.J., Seyfullah, L.J., Preto, N., Gianolla, P., Ruffell, A., Kustascher, E., Roghi, G., Merico, A., Hohn, S., Schmidt, A.R., Marzoli, A., Newton, R.J., Wignall, P.B., and Benton, M.J. 2020. Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic). Science Advances 6, eaba0099 (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0099). | |
| Keating, J.N., Sansom, R.S., Sutton, M.D., Knight, C.G. and Garwood, R.J. 2020. Morphological phylogenetics evaluated using novel evolutionary simulations. Systematic Biology 69, 897–912 (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa012). | |
| Li, T. and Benton, M.J. 2020. Predicting biotic responses to future climate warming with classic ecogeographic rules. Current Biology 30, R737-R758 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.003). | |
| Moon, B.C. and Stubbs, T.L. 2020. Early high rates and disparity in the evolution of ichthyosaurs. Communications Biology 3: 68. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-0779-6). | |
| Newham, E., Gill, P.G., Brewer, P., Benton, M.J., Fernandez, V., Gostling, N.J., Habertür, D., Jernvall, J., Kankaanpää, T., Kallonen, A., Navarro, C., Pacureanu, A., Richards, K., Robson Brown, K., Schneider, P., Suhonen, H., Tafforeau, P., Williams, K.A., Zeller-Plumhoff, B., and Corfe, I.J. 2020. Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals. Nature Communications 11, 5121 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18898-4). | |
| Pigot, A.L., Sheard, C., Miller, E.T., Bregman, T.P., Freeman, B.G., Roll, U., Seddon, N., Trisos, C.H., Weeks, B.C., and Tobias, J.A. 2020. Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 230–239 (doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1070-4). | |
| Schaeffer, J., Benton, M.J., Rayfield, E.J. and Stubbs, T.L. 2020. Morphological disparity in theropod jaws: comparing discrete characters and geometric morphometrics. Palaeontology 63, 283-299 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12455). | |
| Sheard, C., Neate-Clegg, M.H.C., Alioravainen, N., Jones, S.E.I., Vincent, C., MacGregor, H.E.A., Claramunt, S., Tobias, J.A. 2020. Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology. Nature Communications 11(1), art. 2463 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16313-6). | |
| Walker, F.M., Dunhill, A.M. and Benton, M.J. 2020. Variable preservation potential and richness in the fossil record of vertebrates. Palaeontology 63, 313-329 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12458). |
2019
| Allen, B.J., Stubbs, T.L., Benton, M.J., and Puttick, M.N. 2019. Archosauromorph extinction selectivity during the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction. Palaeontology 62, 211-224 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12399). | |
| Ballell, A., Moon, B.C., Porro, L.B., Benton, M.J., and Rayfield, E.J. 2019. Convergence and functional evolution of longirostry in crocodylomorphs. Palaeontology 62, 867-887 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12432). | |
| Benton, M.J., Dhouailly, D., Jiang, B.Y., and McNamara, M. 2019. The early origin of feathers. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34, 856-869 (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.018). | |
| Flannery Sutherland, J., Moon, B.C., Stubbs, T.L., and Benton, M.J. 2019. Does exceptional preservation distort our view of disparity in the fossil record? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286, 20190091 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0091). | |
| Moon, B.C. 2019. A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs (Reptilia: Diapsida). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17, 129-155 (doi: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1394922). | |
| Stoddard, M.C., Sheard, C., Akkaynak, D., Yong, E.H., Mahadevan, L. and Tobias, J.A. 2019. Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale. Ibis 161, 922-925 (doi: 10.1111/ibi.12755). | |
| Stubbs, T.L., Benton, M.J., Elsler, A. and Prieto-Márquez, A. 2019. Morphological innovation and the evolution of hadrosaurid dinosaurs. Paleobiology 45, 347-362 (doi: 10.1017/pab.2019.9). |