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Dunne, E, Farnsworth, A, Benson, RBJ, Godoy, P, Greene, S, Valdes, PJ, Lunt, DJ & Butler, R 2023, 'Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs', Current Biology, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.064
Benevento, G, Benson, RBJ, Close, R & Butler, R 2023, 'Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes', Palaeontology. <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14754983>
Prondvai, E & Butler, R 2023, 'Radial porosity profiles are a powerful tool for tracing locomotor maturation in developing limb bones', Journal of Morphology, vol. 284, no. 4, e21567. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21567
Edgar, K, Haller, L, Cashmore, D, Dunne, E & Butler, R 2023, 'Stratigraphic and geographic distribution of dinosaur tracks in the UK', Journal of the Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-003
Edgar, K, Meade, L, Jones, H, Haller, L, Scriven, S, Reedman, C & Butler, R 2023, 'The condition, use and future of the UK’s largest accessible dinosaur tracksite at Spyway Quarry, Dorset', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.01.001
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, vol. 19, no. 17, pp. 1183-1206. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2022.2032433
Rayner, R, Butler, R, Kammerer, C & Choiniere, J 2022, 'Guttigomphus avilionis gen. et sp. nov., a trirachodontid cynodont from the upper Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa', PeerJ, vol. 10, e14355 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14355
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
Prondvai, E, Kocsis, AT, Abourachid, A, Adriaens, D, Godefroit, P, Hu, D-Y & Butler, R 2022, 'Radial porosity profiles: a new bone histological method for comparative developmental analysis of diametric limb bone growth', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, no. 5, 211893. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211893
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
Foffa, D, Dunne, E, Nesbitt, SJ, Butler, R, Fraser, N, Brusatte, S, Farnsworth, A, Lunt, DJ, Valdes, PJ, Walsh, S & Barrett, PM 2022, 'Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha', Nature, vol. 610, no. 7931, pp. 313-318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05284-x
Schnetz, L, Butler, RJ, Coates, MI & Sansom, IJ 2022, 'Skeletal and soft tissue completeness of the acanthodian fossil record', Palaeontology, vol. 65, no. 4, e12616. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12616
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
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