Michael J Benton

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2016-2024
Publications (10 Years): 59

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Communications biology

Nature communications

Science advances

Royal Society open science

University of Bristol

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Bristol Sep 01 1989

United Kingdom

Professor :: Earth Sciences

Queens' University Sep 01 1984 - Aug 31 1989

United Kingdom

Lecturer :: Geology

Trinity College Oct 01 1982 - Aug 31 1984

United Kingdom

Junior Research Fellow

Nature Conservancy Council Oct 01 1981 - Sep 30 1982

United Kingdom

Research officer

Education History

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Oct 01 1978 - Sep 30 1981

United Kingdom

PHD :: Geology

Publications

J Logan King, Qi Zhao, David L Dufeau, Soichiro Kawabe, Lawrence M Witmer, Chang-Fu Zhou, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton, Akinobu Watanabe
Endocranial development in non-avian dinosaurs reveals an ontogenetic brain trajectory distinct from extant archosaurs. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L Stubbs, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton
Predatory synapsid ecomorphology signals growing dynamism of late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
J Logan King, Qi Zhao, David L Dufeau, Soichiro Kawabe, Lawrence M Witmer, Chang-Fu Zhou, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton, Akinobu Watanabe
Endocranial development in non-avian dinosaurs reveals an ontogenetic brain trajectory distinct from extant archosaurs. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Zhen Guo, Michael J Benton, Thomas L Stubbs, Zhong-Qiang Chen
Morphological innovation did not drive diversification in Mesozoic-Cenozoic brachiopods. Nature ecology & evolution (2024)
Amy E Shipley, Armin Elsler, Suresh A Singh, Thomas L Stubbs, Michael J Benton
Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha. Royal Society open science 11 (2) (2024)
Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L Stubbs, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton
Predatory synapsid ecomorphology signals growing dynamism of late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
Amy E Shipley, Armin Elsler, Suresh A Singh, Thomas L Stubbs, Michael J Benton
Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha. Royal Society open science 11 (2) (2024)
Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Thomas L Stubbs, Emily J Rayfield, Michael J Benton
Predatory synapsid ecomorphology signals growing dynamism of late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
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 Jean 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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Michael J Benton