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Bird, H, Milner, A, Shillito, A & Butler, R 2020, 'A lower Carboniferous (Visean) tetrapod trackway represents the earliest record of an edopoid amphibian from the UK', Geological Society. Journal, vol. 177, no. 2, pp. 276-282. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-149
Ezcurra, M, Butler, R, Maidment, S, Sansom, I, Meade, L & Radley, J 2020, 'A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa054
Montefeitro, F, Lautenschlager, S, Godoy, P, Ferreira, G & Butler, R 2020, 'A unique predator in a unique ecosystem: modelling the apex predator within a Late Cretaceous crocodyliform-dominated fauna from Brazil', Journal of Anatomy, vol. 237, no. 2, pp. 323-333. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13192
Dunne, E, Farnsworth, A, Greene, S, Lunt, DJ & Butler, R 2020, 'Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity', Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12514
Scheyer, TM, Spiekman, S, Sues, H-D, Ezcurra, M, Butler, R & Jones, M 2020, 'Colobops: a juvenile rhynchocephalian reptile (Lepidosauromorpha), not a diminutive archosauromorph with an unusually strong bite', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 7, no. 3, 192179. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192179
Bestwick, J, Jones, A, Purnell, M & Butler, R 2020, 'Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis', Palaeontology, vol. 2020, 12515. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12515
Bestwick, J, Unwin, D, Butler, R & Purnell, M 2020, 'Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis', Nature Communications, vol. 2020, 5293. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19022-2
Panciroli, E, Benson, RBJ, Walsh, S, Butler, R, Castro, T, Jones, M & Evans, SE 2020, 'Diverse vertebrate assemblage of the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Skye, Scotland', Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/diverse-vertebrate-assemblage-of-the-kilmaluag-formation-bathonian-middle-jurassic-of-skye-scotland/B8DD4D46839FA83FA2E57437BDEBF2B8>
Brown, E, Butler, R, Ezcurra, M, Bhullar, B-A & Lautenschlager, S 2020, 'Endocranial anatomy and life habits of the Early Triassic archosauriform Proterosuchus fergusi', Palaeontology, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 255-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12454
Panciroli, E, Benson, RBJ, Fernandez, V, Butler, R, Fraser, N, Luo, Z-X & Walsh, S 2020, '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.
Pinheiro, F, Oliveira, D & Butler, R 2020, 'Osteology of the archosauromorph Teyujagua paradoxa and the early evolution of the archosauriform skull', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 189, no. 1, pp. 378–417. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz093
Foffa, D, Butler, R, Nesbitt, S, Walsh, S, Barrett, PM, Brusatte, SL & Fraser, N 2020, 'Revision of Erpetosuchus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and new erpetosuchid material from the Late Triassic ‘Elgin Reptile’ fauna based on µCT scanning techniques', Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Cashmore, D, Mannion, P, Upchurch, P & Butler, R 2020, 'Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record', Palaeontology, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 951-978. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12496
Close, R, Benson, RBJ, Alroy, J, Carrano, MT, Cleary, T, Dunne, E, Mannion, P, Uhen, M & Butler, R 2020, 'The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases', Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, vol. 287, no. 1924, 20200372. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0372
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Ezcurra, M, Jones, A, Gentil, A & Butler, R 2020, Early Archosauromorphs: The Crocodile and Dinosaur Precursors. in Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012409548912439X?via%3Dihub>
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