Michael Pittman

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2017-2024
Publications (10 Years): 34

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Communications biology

Nature communications

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Scientific reports

University of Hong Kong

University College London (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Hong Kong Jan 01 2013

Hong Kong

Research Assistant Professor :: Department of Earth Sciences

Education History

University College London

United Kingdom

PHD :: Department of Earth Sciences

University College London

United Kingdom

MSC :: Department of Earth Sciences

University College London

United Kingdom

BSC :: Department of Earth Sciences

Publications

Luke E Meade, Michael Pittman, Amy Balanoff, Stephan Lautenschlager
Cranial functional specialisation for strength precedes morphological evolution in Oviraptorosauria. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
Case Vincent Miller, Jen A Bright, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Michael Pittman
Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae. eLife 12 (2024)
Case Vincent Miller, Jen A Bright, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Michael Pittman
Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae. eLife 12 (2024)
Luke E Meade, Michael Pittman, Amy Balanoff, Stephan Lautenschlager
Cranial functional specialisation for strength precedes morphological evolution in Oviraptorosauria. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
Luke E Meade, Michael Pittman, Amy Balanoff, Stephan Lautenschlager
Cranial functional specialisation for strength precedes morphological evolution in Oviraptorosauria. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
Aaron R H LeBlanc, Alexander P Morrell, Slobodan Sirovica, Maisoon Al-Jawad, David Labonte, Domenic C D'Amore, Christofer J Clemente, Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, Catriona M McGilvery, Michael Pittman, Thomas G Kaye, Colin Stevenson, Joe Capon, Benjamin Tapley, Simon Spiro, Owen Addison
Iron-coated Komodo dragon teeth and the complex dental enamel of carnivorous reptiles. Nature ecology & evolution (2024)
Luke E Meade, Michael Pittman, Amy Balanoff, Stephan Lautenschlager
Cranial functional specialisation for strength precedes morphological evolution in Oviraptorosauria. Communications biology 7 (1) (2024)
Diego Pol, Mattia Antonio Baiano, David Černý, Fernando E Novas, Ignacio A Cerda, Michael Pittman
A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the end Cretaceous of Patagonia and evolutionary rates among the Ceratosauria. Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society 40 (3) (2024)
Natalia Jagielska, Thomas G Kaye, Michael B Habib, Tatsuya Hirasawa, Michael Pittman
New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)
Diego Pol, Mattia Antonio Baiano, David Černý, Fernando E Novas, Ignacio A Cerda, Michael Pittman
A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the end Cretaceous of Patagonia and evolutionary rates among the Ceratosauria. Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society (2024)
Natalia Jagielska, Thomas G Kaye, Michael B Habib, Tatsuya Hirasawa, Michael Pittman
New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)
Michael Pittman, Nathan J Enriquez, Phil R Bell, Thomas G Kaye, Paul Upchurch
Newly detected data from Haestasaurus and review of sauropod skin morphology suggests Early Jurassic origin of skin papillae. Communications biology 5 (1) (2022)
Arindam Roy, Michael Pittman, Thomas G Kaye, Evan T Saitta, Xing Xu
Correction statement for Recent advances in amniote palaeocolour reconstruction and a framework for future research (volume 95, issue 1, pp. 22-50). Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2022)
Michael Pittman, Phil R Bell, Case Vincent Miller, Nathan J Enriquez, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Leah R Tsang, Yuen Ting Tse, Michael Landes, Thomas G Kaye
Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Michael Pittman, Phil R Bell, Case Vincent Miller, Nathan J Enriquez, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Leah R Tsang, Yuen Ting Tse, Michael Landes, Thomas G Kaye
Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Jen A Bright
Diet of Mesozoic toothed birds (Longipterygidae) inferred from quantitative analysis of extant avian diet proxies. BMC biology 20 (1) (2022)
Christophe Hendrickx, Phil R Bell, Michael Pittman, Andrew R C Milner, Elena Cuesta, Jingmai K O'Connor, Mark Loewen, Philip J Currie, Octavio Mateus, Thomas G Kaye, Rafael Delcourt
Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non-feather integumentary structures in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 97 (3) (2022)
Michael Pittman, Phil R Bell, Case Vincent Miller, Nathan J Enriquez, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Leah R Tsang, Yuen Ting Tse, Michael Landes, Thomas G Kaye
Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Michael Pittman, Phil R Bell, Case Vincent Miller, Nathan J Enriquez, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Leah R Tsang, Yuen Ting Tse, Michael Landes, Thomas G Kaye
Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Phil R Bell, Christophe Hendrickx, Michael Pittman, Thomas G Kaye, Gerald Mayr
The exquisitely preserved integument of Psittacosaurus and the scaly skin of ceratopsian dinosaurs. Communications biology 5 (1) (2022)
Michael Pittman, Thomas G Kaye, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, T Alexander Dececchi, Scott A Hartman
Preserved soft anatomy confirms shoulder-powered upstroke of early theropod flyers, reveals enhanced early pygostylian upstroke, and explains early sternum loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (47) (2022)
Luke A Barlow, Michael Pittman, Anthony Butcher, David M Martill, Thomas G Kaye
Laser-stimulated fluorescence reveals unseen details in fossils from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestones. Royal Society open science 8 (12) (2021)
Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman
The diet of early birds based on modern and fossil evidence and a new framework for its reconstruction. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 96 (5) (2021)
Michael Pittman, Luke A Barlow, Thomas G Kaye, Michael B Habib
Pterosaurs evolved a muscular wing-body junction providing multifaceted flight performance benefits: Advanced aerodynamic smoothing, sophisticated wing root control, and wing force generation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (44) (2021)
Thomas G Kaye, Michael Pittman
Reply to: Reinterpretation of purported molting evidence in the Thermopolis Archaeopteryx. Communications biology 4 (1) (2021)
Thomas G Kaye, Michael Pittman, William R Wahl
Archaeopteryx feather sheaths reveal sequential center-out flight-related molting strategy. Communications biology 3 (1) (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)
Thomas G Kaye, Michael Pittman, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Hugo Martín-Abad, José Luis Sanz, Angela D Buscalioni
Fully fledged enantiornithine hatchling revealed by Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence supports precocial nesting behavior. Scientific reports 9 (1) (2019)
Arindam Roy, Michael Pittman, Evan T Saitta, Thomas G Kaye, Xing Xu
Recent advances in amniote palaeocolour reconstruction and a framework for future research. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2019)
Thomas G Kaye, Michael Pittman, Gerald Mayr, Daniela Schwarz, Xing Xu
Detection of lost calamus challenges identity of isolated Archaeopteryx feather. Scientific reports 9 (1) (2019)
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)
Xiaoli Wang, Michael Pittman, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G Kaye, Amanda R Falk, Scott A Hartman, Xing Xu
Basal paravian functional anatomy illuminated by high-detail body outline. Nature communications 8 (2017)
Xing Xu, Philip Currie, Michael Pittman, Lida Xing, Qingjin Meng, Junchang Lü, Dongyu Hu, Congyu Yu
Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur with transitional features. Nature communications 8 (2017)
Waisum Ma, Junyou Wang, Michael Pittman, Qingwei Tan, Lin Tan, Bin Guo, Xing Xu
Functional anatomy of a giant toothless mandible from a bird-like dinosaur: Gigantoraptor and the evolution of the oviraptorosaurian jaw. Scientific reports 7 (1) (2017)

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