Roger Benson

Research interests

Publications

• Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

  Current Biology · 2021 · 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.071

• The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity

  Science · 2020 · 10.1126/science.aay8309

• Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3011-4

• The phylogeny of early amniotes and the affinities of Parareptilia and Varanopidae

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · 10.1038/s41559-019-1047-3

• A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group

  Palaeontology · 2018 · 10.1111/pala.12384

• Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution

  Palaeontology · 2017 · 10.1111/pala.12329

• Open data and digital morphology

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2017 · 10.1098/rspb.2017.0194

• Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility

  Nature Communications · 2016 · 10.1038/ncomms10825

• Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

  Nature Communications · 2015 · 10.1038/ncomms9438

• A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

  PeerJ · 2015 · 10.7717/peerj.857

• Evidence for a Mid-Jurassic Adaptive Radiation in Mammals

  Current Biology · 2015 · 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.047

• Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

  PLoS Biology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001853

• The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.09.012

• Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the J urassic– C retaceous transition

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2013 · 10.1111/brv.12038

• Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2012 · 10.1098/rspb.2011.2441

• High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary

  PLoS ONE · 2012 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0031838

• The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

  Journal of Systematic Palaeontology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2011.630927

• Air‐filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the ‘reptile’–bird transition

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2011.00190.x

• Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases

  Geological Society London Special Publications · 2011 · 10.1144/sp358.13

• Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2009.00107.x

• A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic

  Die Naturwissenschaften · 2009 · 10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x

• Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 10.1098/rspb.2009.1845

• A description ofMegalosaurus bucklandii(Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00569.x

• The Osteology of Neovenator Salerii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) From the Wealden Group (Barremian) of the Isle of Wight

  Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society · 2008 · 10.1080/25761900.2008.12452864

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