Michael J Benton

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2016-2023
Publications (10 Years): 51

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Nature communications

Communications biology

Science advances

Science (New York, N.Y.)

University of Bristol

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Bristol Sep 1o 1989

United Kingdom

Professor :: Earth Sciences

Education History

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Oct 1o 1978 - Sep 30o 1981

United Kingdom

PHD :: Geology

Publications

Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Sukuan Hou, Qinqin Shi, Michael J Benton, Nikos Solounias
Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation". Science (New York, N.Y.) 379 (6633) (2023)
Sukuan Hou, Qinqin Shi, Michael J Benton, Nikos Solounias
Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation". Science (New York, N.Y.) 379 (6633) (2023)
Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Zhen Guo, Joseph T Flannery-Sutherland, Michael J Benton, Zhong-Qiang Chen
Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Zichuan Qin, Chun-Chi Liao, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Sukuan Hou, Qinqin Shi, Michael J Benton, Nikos Solounias
Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation". Science (New York, N.Y.) 379 (6633) (2023)
Zixiao Yang, Baoyu Jiang, Michael J Benton, Xing Xu, Maria E McNamara, David W E Hone
Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism. Proceedings. Biological sciences 290 (2003) (2023)
Baoyu Jiang, Yiming He, Armin Elsler, Shengyu Wang, Joseph N Keating, Junyi Song, Stuart L Kearns, Michael J Benton
Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes. Nature ecology & evolution (2023)
Sukuan Hou, Qinqin Shi, Michael J Benton, Nikos Solounias
Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation". Science (New York, N.Y.) 379 (6633) (2023)
Sukuan Hou, Qinqin Shi, Michael J Benton, Nikos Solounias
Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation". Science (New York, N.Y.) 379 (6633) (2023)
Sarah Jamison-Todd, Benjamin C Moon, Andre J Rowe, Matt Williams, Michael J Benton
Dietary niche partitioning in Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs from Strawberry Bank. Journal of anatomy 241 (6) (2022)
Susana Gutarra, Thomas L Stubbs, Benjamin C Moon, Colin Palmer, Michael J Benton
Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions. Communications biology 5 (1) (2022)
Antonio Ballell, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science advances 8 (50) (2022)
Joseph T Flannery-Sutherland, Daniele Silvestro, Michael J Benton
Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Arnau Bolet, Thomas L Stubbs, Jorge A Herrera-Flores, Michael J Benton
The Jurassic rise of squamates as supported by lepidosaur disparity and evolutionary rates. eLife 11 (2022)
Antonio Ballell, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science advances 8 (50) (2022)
Pedro Cermeño, Carmen García-Comas, Alexandre Pohl, Simon E Williams, Michael J Benton, Chhaya Chaudhary, Guillaume Le Gland, R Dietmar Müller, Andrew Ridgwell, Sergio M Vallina
Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots. Nature 607 (7919) (2022)
Elis Newham, Pamela G Gill, Michael J Benton, Philippa Brewer, Neil J Gostling, David Haberthür, Jukka Jernvall, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Aki Kallonen, Charles Navarro, Alexandra Pacureanu, Kelly Richards, Kate Robson Brown, Philipp Schneider, Heikki Suhonen, Paul Tfforeau, Katherine A Williams, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Ian J Corfe
Reply to: Revisiting life history and morphological proxies for early mammaliaform metabolic rates. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Antonio Ballell, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science advances 8 (50) (2022)
Xueqian Feng, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Michael J Benton, Chunmei Su, David J Bottjer, Alison T Cribb, Ziheng Li, Laishi Zhao, Guangyou Zhu, Yuangeng Huang, Zhen Guo
Resilience of infaunal ecosystems during the Early Triassic greenhouse Earth. Science advances 8 (26) (2022)
Susana Gutarra, Thomas L Stubbs, Benjamin C Moon, Colin Palmer, Michael J Benton
Author Correction: Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions. Communications biology 5 (1) (2022)
Antonio Ballell, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science advances 8 (50) (2022)
David I Whiteside, Sofía A V Chambi-Trowell, Michael J Benton
A Triassic crown squamate. Science advances 8 (48) (2022)
Antonio Ballell, Michael J Benton, Emily J Rayfield
Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science advances 8 (50) (2022)
Antonio Ballell, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton
Walking with early dinosaurs: appendicular myology of the Late Triassic sauropodomorph Thecodontosaurus antiquus . Royal Society open science 9 (1) (2022)
Maximilian T Stockdale, Michael J Benton
Reply to: 'Reconstructed evolutionary patterns from crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate the impact of failure to log-transform body size data'. Communications biology 5 (1) (2022)
Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L Stubbs, Russell Bond, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton
Niche partitioning shaped herbivore macroevolution through the early Mesozoic. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L Stubbs, Russell Bond, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton
Author Correction: Niche partitioning shaped herbivore macroevolution through the early Mesozoic. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Fabien L Condamine, Guillaume Guinot, Michael J Benton, Philip J Currie
Dinosaur biodiversity declined well before the asteroid impact, influenced by ecological and environmental pressures. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Jorge A Herrera-Flores, Thomas L Stubbs, Michael J Benton
Ecomorphological diversification of squamates in the Cretaceous. Royal Society open science 8 (3) (2021)
Manabu Sakamoto, Michael J Benton, Chris Venditti
Strong support for a heterogeneous speciation decline model in Dinosauria: a response to claims made by Bonsor et al. (2020). Royal Society open science 8 (8) (2021)
Michael J Benton, Peter Wilf, Hervé Sauquet
The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity. The New phytologist (2021)
Maximilian T Stockdale, Michael J Benton
Environmental drivers of body size evolution in crocodile-line archosaurs. Communications biology 4 (1) (2021)
Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker, Michael J Benton, Andrew Meade, Stuart Humphries
150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature 587 (7832) (2020)
Elis Newham, Pamela G Gill, Philippa Brewer, Michael J Benton, Vincent Fernandez, Neil J Gostling, David Haberthür, Jukka Jernvall, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Aki Kallonen, Charles Navarro, Alexandra Pacureanu, Kelly Richards, Kate Robson Brown, Philipp Schneider, Heikki Suhonen, Paul Tfforeau, Katherine A Williams, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Ian J Corfe
Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals. Nature communications 11 (1) (2020)
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
Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic). Science advances 6 (38) (2020)
Zixiao Yang, Baoyu Jiang, Maria E McNamara, Stuart L Kearns, Michael Pittman, Thomas G Kaye, Patrick J Orr, Xing Xu, Michael J Benton
Reply to: No protofeathers on pterosaurs. Nature ecology & evolution 4 (12) (2020)
Zhicai Zhu, Yongqing Liu, Hongwei Kuang, Michael J Benton, Andrew J Newell, Huan Xu, Wei An, Shu'an Ji, Shichao Xu, Nan Peng, Qingguo Zhai
Altered fluvial patterns in North China indicate rapid climate change linked to the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Scientific reports 9 (1) (2019)
Massimo Bernardi, Fabio Massimo Petti, Michael J Benton
Tetrapod distribution and temperature rise during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Proceedings. Biological sciences 285 (1870) (2019)
Michael J Benton
Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 376 (2130) (2019)
Claire M Bullar, Qi Zhao, Michael J Benton, Michael J Ryan
Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography. PeerJ 7 (2019)
Maria E McNamara, Fucheng Zhang, Stuart L Kearns, Patrick J Orr, André Toulouse, Tara Foley, David W E Hone, Chris S Rogers, Michael J Benton, Diane Johnson, Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou
Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds. Nature communications 9 (1) (2018)
Zixiao Yang, Baoyu Jiang, Maria E McNamara, Stuart L Kearns, Michael Pittman, Thomas G Kaye, Patrick J Orr, Xing Xu, Michael J Benton
Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching. Nature ecology & evolution 3 (1) (2018)
Massimo Bernardi, Piero Gianolla, Fabio Massimo Petti, Paolo Mietto, Michael J Benton
Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode. Nature communications 9 (1) (2018)
Maria E McNamara, Jonathan S Kaye, Michael J Benton, Patrick J Orr, Valentina Rossi, Shosuke Ito, Kazumasa Wakamatsu
Non-integumentary melanosomes can bias reconstructions of the colours of fossil vertebrates. Nature communications 9 (1) (2018)
Pedro Cermeño, Michael J Benton, Óscar Paz, Christian Vérard
Trophic and tectonic limits to the global increase of marine invertebrate diversity. Scientific reports 7 (1) (2017)
Thomas H G Ezard, Tiago B Quental, Michael J Benton
The challenges to inferring the regulators of biodiversity in deep time. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 371 (1691) (2016)

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