Benton, Michael J.

Paleontological Evidence to Date the Tree of Life

Benton, M. J., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2006) · Molecular Biology and Evolution

Genomics and Phylogenetic StudiesEvolution and Paleontology Studies

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Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

Parham, J. F., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bell, C. J., Calway, T. D., Head, J. J., Holroyd, P. A., Inoue, J. G., Irmis, R. B., Joyce, W. G., Ksepka, D. T., et al. (2012) · Systematic Biology

Evolution and Paleontology StudiesGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Cited by 780

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

Benton, M. J. (2009) · Science

Evolution and Paleontology StudiesEvolution and Genetic Dynamics

Cited by 663

Diversification and Extinction in the History of Life

Benton, M. J. (1995) · Science

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 654

How to kill (almost) all life: the end-Permian extinction event

Benton, M. J., & Twitchett, R. J. (2003) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 502

Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules

Donoghue, P. C. J., & Benton, M. J. (2007) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Evolution and Paleontology StudiesGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Cited by 413

The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

Brusatte, S. L., Nesbitt, S. J., Irmis, R. B., Butler, R. J., Benton, M. J., & Norell, M. A. (2010) · Earth-Science Reviews

Paleontology and Evolutionary BiologyEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 305

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

Zhang, F., Kearns, S. L., Orr, P. J., Benton, M. J., Zhou, Z., Johnson, D., Xu, X., & Wang, X. (2010) · Nature

Paleontology and Evolutionary Biologymelanin and skin pigmentation

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Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

Dal Corso, J., Bernardi, M., Sun, Y., Song, H., Seyfullah, L. J., Preto, N., Gianolla, P., Ruffell, A., Kustatscher, E., Roghi, G., et al. (2020) · Science Advances

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 259

Dating the Tree of Life

Benton, M. J., & Ayala, F. J. (2003) · Science

Evolution and Paleontology StudiesGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Cited by 252

Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land

Sahney, S., Benton, M. J., & Ferry, P. A. (2010) · Biology Letters

Evolution and Paleontology StudiesEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Cited by 203

The first 50 Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

Brusatte, S. L., Benton, M. J., Ruta, M., & Lloyd, G. T. (2008) · Biology Letters

Paleontology and Evolutionary BiologyEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 133

Congruence of Morphological and Molecular Phylogenies

Pisani, D., Benton, M. J., & Wilkinson, M. (2007) · Acta Biotheoretica

Genomics and Phylogenetic StudiesEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 93

Post-Cambrian closure of the deep-water slope-basin taphonomic window

Orr, P. J., Benton, M. J., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2003) · Geology

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology

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Severe selenium depletion in the Phanerozoic oceans as a factor in three global mass extinction events

Long, J. A., Large, R. R., Lee, M. S. Y., Benton, M. J., Danyushevsky, L. V., Chiappe, L. M., Halpin, J. A., Cantrill, D., & Lottermoser, B. (2016) · Gondwana Research

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsGeochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Cited by 60

Growth and miniaturization among alvarezsauroid dinosaurs

Qin, Z., Zhao, Q., Choiniere, J. N., Clark, J. M., Benton, M. J., & Xu, X. (2021) · Current Biology

Paleontology and Evolutionary BiologyEvolution and Paleontology Studies

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