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Article
Butler, R, Fernandez, V, Nesbitt, SJ, Leite, JV & Gower, D 2022, 'A new pseudosuchian archosaur, Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 211622. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211622
Brown, E, Butler, R, Barrett, P & Maidment, S 2022, 'Assessing conflict between early neornithischian tree topologies', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2022.2032433
Ma, WS, Pittman, M, Butler, R & Lautenschlager, S 2022, 'Macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaur feeding mechanics', Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 677-686.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.060
Benson, RBJ, Godoy, P, Bronzati, M, Butler, R & Gearty, W 2022, 'Reconstructed evolutionary patterns for crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate impact of failure to log-transform body size data', Communications Biology, vol. 5, no. 1, 171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03071-y
Bestwick, J, Godoy, P, Maidment, S, Ezcurra, M, Wroe, M, Raven, T, Bonsor, J & Butler, R 2022, 'Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms', Palaeontology, vol. 65, no. 3, e12599. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12599
Radermacher, V, Fernandez, V, Schachner, E, Butler, R, Bordy, E, Hudgins, M, de Klerk, W, Chapelle, K & Choiniere, J 2021, 'A new Heterodontosaurus specimen elucidates the unique ventilatory macroevolution of ornithischian dinosaurs', eLife, vol. 10, e66036. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66036
Tolchard, F, Kammerer, C, Butler, R, Hendrickx, C, Benoit, J, Abdala, F & Choiniere, JN 2021, 'A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 41, no. 2, e1929265. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1929265
Ezcurra, M, Butler, R, Maidment, S, Sansom, I, Meade, L & Radley, J 2021, 'A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 191, no. 1, pp. 113-149. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa054
Dunne, E, Farnsworth, A, Greene, S, Lunt, DJ & Butler, R 2021, 'Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity', Palaeontology, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12514
Bestwick, J, Jones, A, Nesbitt, S, Lautenschlager, S, Rayfield, E, Cuff, AR, Button, D, Barrett, PM, Porro, LB & Butler, R 2021, 'Cranial functional morphology of the pseudosuchian Effigia and implications for its ecological role in the Triassic', The Anatomical record, pp. 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24827
Maidment, S, Dean, C, Mansergh, R & Butler, R 2021, 'Deep-time biodiversity patterns and the dinosaurian fossil record of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior, North America', Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1953, 20210692. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0692
Panciroli, E, Benson, RBJ, Fernandez, V, Butler, R, Fraser, N, Luo, Z-X & Walsh, S 2021, 'New species of mammaliaform and the cranium of Borealestes (Mammaliformes: Docodonta) from the Middle Jurassic of the British Isles', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 2021, zlaa144. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa144
Spiekman, S, Ezcurra, M, Butler, R, Fraser, N & Maidment, S 2021, 'Pendraig milnerae, a new small-sized coelophysoid theropod from the Late Triassic of Wales', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 8, no. 10, 210915. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210915
Cashmore, D, Butler, R & Maidment, S 2021, 'Taxonomic identification bias does not drive patterns of abundance and diversity in theropod dinosaurs', Biology Letters, vol. 17, no. 7, 20210168. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0168
Review article
Benson, RBJ, Butler, R, Close, R, Saupe, E & Rabosky, D 2021, 'Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record', Current Biology, vol. 31, no. 19, pp. R1225-R1236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.071
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