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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
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.
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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02128-3
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
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
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