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Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition by Benson, Roger B. J., Druckenmiller, Patrick S.

“…ABSTRACT Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition. However, despite…”
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Ecological and biogeographic drivers of biodiversity cannot be resolved using clade age-richness data by Rabosky, Daniel L., Benson, Roger B. J.

“…Estimates of evolutionary diversification rates – speciation and extinction – have been used extensively to explain global biodiversity patterns. Many studies…”
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Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage by Benson, Roger B J, Campione, Nicolás E, Carrano, Matthew T, Mannion, Philip D, Sullivan, Corwin, Upchurch, Paul, Evans, David C

“…Large-scale adaptive radiations might explain the runaway success of a minority of extant vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things,…”
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The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution by Godoy, Pedro L, Benson, Roger B J, Bronzati, Mario, Butler, Richard J

“…Little is known about the long-term patterns of body size evolution in Crocodylomorpha, the > 200-million-year-old group that includes living crocodylians and…”
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Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria by Ezcurra, Martín D., Nesbitt, Sterling J., Bronzati, Mario, Dalla Vecchia, Fabio Marco, Agnolin, Federico L., Benson, Roger B. J., Brissón Egli, Federico, Cabreira, Sergio F., Evers, Serjoscha W., Gentil, Adriel R., Irmis, Randall B., Martinelli, Agustín G., Novas, Fernando E., Roberto da Silva, Lúcio, Smith, Nathan D., Stocker, Michelle R., Turner, Alan H., Langer, Max C.

“…Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight 1 and comprised one of the main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the…”
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The phylogeny of early amniotes and the affinities of Parareptilia and Varanopidae by Ford, David P., Benson, Roger B. J.

“…Amniotes include mammals, reptiles and birds, representing 75% of extant vertebrate species on land. They originated around 318 million years ago in the early…”
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High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary by Benson, Roger B J, Evans, Mark, Druckenmiller, Patrick S

“…Invasion of the open ocean by tetrapods represents a major evolutionary transition that occurred independently in cetaceans, mosasauroids, chelonioids (sea…”
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Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution by Sookias, Roland B, Butler, Richard J, Benson, Roger B. J

“…A major macroevolutionary question concerns how long-term patterns of body-size evolution are underpinned by smaller scale processes along lineages. One…”
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Theropod fauna from southern Australia indicates high polar diversity and climate-driven dinosaur provinciality by Benson, Roger B J, Rich, Thomas H, Vickers-Rich, Patricia, Hall, Mike

“…The Early Cretaceous fauna of Victoria, Australia, provides unique data on the composition of high latitude southern hemisphere dinosaurs. We describe and…”
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Independent origin of large labyrinth size in turtles by Evers, Serjoscha W., Joyce, Walter G., Choiniere, Jonah N., Ferreira, Gabriel S., Foth, Christian, Hermanson, Guilherme, Yi, Hongyu, Johnson, Catherine M., Werneburg, Ingmar, Benson, Roger B. J.

“…The labyrinth of the vertebrate inner ear is a sensory system that governs the perception of head rotations. Central hypotheses predict that labyrinth shape…”
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Open data and digital morphology by Davies, Thomas G., Rahman, Imran A., Lautenschlager, Stephan, Cunningham, John A., Asher, Robert J., Barrett, Paul M., Bates, Karl T., Bengtson, Stefan, Benson, Roger B. J., Boyer, Doug M., Braga, José, Bright, Jen A., Claessens, Leon P. A. M., Cox, Philip G., Dong, Xi-Ping, Evans, Alistair R., Falkingham, Peter L., Friedman, Matt, Garwood, Russell J., Goswami, Anjali, Hutchinson, John R., Jeffery, Nathan S., Johanson, Zerina, Lebrun, Renaud, Martínez-Pérez, Carlos, Marugán-Lobón, Jesús, O'Higgins, Paul M., Metscher, Brian, Orliac, Maëva, Rowe, Timothy B., Rücklin, Martin, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R., Shubin, Neil H., Smith, Selena Y., Starck, J. Matthias, Stringer, Chris, Summers, Adam P., Sutton, Mark D., Walsh, Stig A., Weisbecker, Vera, Witmer, Lawrence M., Wroe, Stephen, Yin, Zongjun, Rayfield, Emily J., Donoghue, Philip C. J.

“…Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the…”
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Beyond the beak: Brain size and allometry in avian craniofacial evolution by Marugán‐Lobón, Jesús, Nebreda, Sergio M., Navalón, Guillermo, Benson, Roger B. J.

“…Birds exhibit an enormous variety of beak shapes. Such remarkable variation, however, has distracted research from other important aspects of their skull…”
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The relationship between sternum variation and mode of locomotion in birds by Lowi-Merri, Talia M, Benson, Roger B J, Claramunt, Santiago, Evans, David C

“…The origin of powered avian flight was a locomotor innovation that expanded the ecological potential of maniraptoran dinosaurs, leading to remarkable variation…”
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Anatomy of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Protostegidae) and marine adaptation during the early evolution of chelonioids by Evers, Serjoscha W, Barrett, Paul M, Benson, Roger B J

“…Knowledge of the early evolution of sea turtles (Chelonioidea) has been limited by conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses resulting from sparse taxon sampling and…”
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Osteology of Huabeisaurus allocotus (Sauropoda: Titanosauriformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of China by D'Emic, Michael D, Mannion, Philip D, Upchurch, Paul, Benson, Roger B J, Pang, Qiqing, Zhengwu, Cheng

“…The Late Cretaceous titanosauriform sauropod Huabeisaurus allocotus Pang and Cheng is known from teeth and much of the postcranial skeleton. Its completeness…”
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Mammalian forelimb evolution is driven by uneven proximal-to-distal morphological diversity by Rothier, Priscila S, Fabre, Anne-Claire, Clavel, Julien, Benson, Roger B J, Herrel, Anthony

“…Vertebrate limb morphology often reflects the environment due to variation in locomotor requirements. However, proximal and distal limb segments may evolve…”
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Earliest evidence for fruit consumption and potential seed dispersal by birds by Hu, Han, Wang, Yan, McDonald, Paul G, Wroe, Stephen, O'Connor, Jingmai K, Bjarnason, Alexander, Bevitt, Joseph J, Yin, Xuwei, Zheng, Xiaoting, Zhou, Zhonghe, Benson, Roger BJ

“…The Early Cretaceous diversification of birds was a major event in the history of terrestrial ecosystems, occurring during the earliest phase of the Cretaceous…”
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A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning by Mannion, Philip D., Benson, Roger B. J., Upchurch, Paul, Butler, Richard J., Carrano, Matthew T., Barrett, Paul M.

“…Aim: Modern biodiversity peaks in the tropics and declines poleward, a pattern that is potentially driven by climate. Although this latitudinal biodiversity…”
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Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility by Fischer, Valentin, Bardet, Nathalie, Benson, Roger B. J., Arkhangelsky, Maxim S., Friedman, Matt

“…Despite their profound adaptations to the aquatic realm and their apparent success throughout the Triassic and the Jurassic, ichthyosaurs became extinct…”
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Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution by Benson, Roger B. J., Hunt, Gene, Carrano, Matthew T., Campione, Nicolás, Mannion, Philip

“…The largest known dinosaurs weighed at least 20 million times as much as the smallest, indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have…”
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