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Schnetz, L, Dunne, EM, Feichtinger, I, Butler, RJ, Coates, MI & Sansom, IJ 2024, 'Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic', Paleobiology, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.1
Schnetz, L, Butler, R, Coates, MI & Sansom, I 2024, 'The skeletal completeness of the Palaeozoic chondrichthyan fossil record', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 11, no. 1, 231451. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231451
Butler, R, Meade, L, Cleary, T, McWhirter, K, Brown, E, Kemp, T, Benito, J & Fraser, N 2023, 'Hwiccewyrm trispiculum gen. et sp. nov., a new leptopleuronine procolophonid from the Late Triassic of southwest England', The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25316
Ezcurra, MD, Bandyopadhyay, S, Sengupta, DP, Sen, K, Sennikov, AG, Sookias, RB, Nesbitt, SJ & Butler, RJ 2023, 'A new archosauriform species from the Panchet Formation of India and the diversification of Proterosuchidae after the end-Permian mass extinction', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 10, no. 10, 230387. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230387
Spiekman, SNF, Fernandez, V, Butler, R, Dollman, KN & Maidment, S 2023, 'A taxonomic revision and cranial description of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry (southern Wales)', Papers in Palaeontology, vol. 9, no. 6, e1534.
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, vol. 66, no. 3, e12653. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12653
Fawcett, MJ, Lautenschlager, S, Bestwick, J & Butler, RJ 2023, 'Functional morphology of the Triassic apex predator Saurosuchus galilei (Pseudosuchia: Loricata) and convergence with a post‐Triassic theropod dinosaur', The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25299
Dunne, E, Thompson, S, Butler, R, Rosindell, J & Close, R 2023, 'Mechanistic neutral models show that sampling biases drive the apparent explosion of early tetrapod diversity', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 1480-1489. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02128-3
Oussou, A, Falkingham, PL, Butler, RJ, Boumir, K, Ouarhache, D, Ech-charay, K, Charrière, A & Maidment, SCR 2023, 'New Middle to? Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksites in the Central High Atlas Mountains, Morocco', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 10, no. 9, 231091. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231091
Foffa, D, Nesbitt, SJ, Kligman, BT, Butler, RJ & Stocker, MR 2023, 'New specimen and redescription of Anisodontosaurus greeri (Moenkopi Formation: Middle Triassic) and the spatiotemporal origins of Trilophosauridae', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2220015
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
Foffa, D, Nesbitt, SJ, Butler, RJ, Brusatte, SL, Walsh, S, Fraser, NC & Barrett, PM 2023, 'The osteology of the Late Triassic reptile Scleromochlus taylori from μCT data', The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25335
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