Research outputs - publications

Publications

Fabbri M, Navalón G, Benson RBJ [co-corresponding author], (18 authors). 2022. Subaqueous foraging and wading behaviour among giant predatory dinosaurs. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04528-0


Brocklehurst N, Ford DP, Benson RBJ. 2022. Early origins of divergent macroevolutionary patterns on the mammal and reptile stem-lineages. Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac020


Choiniere JN, Neenan JM, (13 authors), Benson RBJ. 2021. Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs. Science 372, 610-613.


Marugán‐Lobón J, Nebreda SM, Navalón G, Benson RBJ. 2021. Beyond the beak: Brain size and allometry in avian craniofacial evolution. Journal of Anatomy 240, 197-209.


Panciroli E, Benson RBJ, Fernandez V, Humpage M, Martín-Serra A, Walsh S, Luo Z-X, Fraser NC. 2021. Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals. Palaeontology doi.org/10.1111/pala.12577.


Brocklehurst N, Benson RBJ. 2021. Multiple paths to morphological diversification during the origin of amniotes. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5, 1243–1249.


Brocklehurst N, Panciroli E, Benevento GL, Benson RBJ. 2021. Mammaliaform extinctions as a driver of the morphological radiation of Cenozoic mammals. Current Biology 31, 2955–2963.


Orkney A, Bjarnason A, Tronrud BC, Benson RBJ. 2021. Patterns of skeletal integration in birds reveal that adaptation of element shapes enables coordinated evolution between anatomical modules. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5, 1250–1258.


Figueirido B, Martín-Serra A, Pérez-Ramos A, Valsco D, Pastor FJ, Benson RBJ. 2021. Serial disparity in the carnivoran backbone unveils a complex adaptive role in metameric evolution. Communications Biology 4, 863.


Bronzati M, Benson RBJ [joint first authors] … (15 authors), Nesbitt SJ. 2021. Deep evolutionary diversification of semicircular canals in archosaurs. Current Biology 31, 2520–2529.


Lowi-Merri TM, Benson RBJ, Claramunt S, Evans DC. 2021. The relationship between sternum variation and mode of locomotion in birds. BMC Biology 19, 1–23.


Navalón G, Nebreda SM, Bright JA, Fabbri M, Benson RBJ, Bhullar BA, Marugán-Lobón J, Rayfield EJ. 2021. Craniofacial development illuminates the evolution of nightbirds (Strisores). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1948), 20210181.


Marek RD, Falkingham PL, Benson RBJ, Gardiner JD, Maddox TW, Bates KT. 2021. Evolutionary versatility of the avian neck. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1946), 20203150.


Bjarnason A, Benson RBJ. 2021. A 3D geometric morphometric dataset quantifying skeletal variation in birds. MorphoMuseuM 7, doi:10.18563/journal.m3.125.


Hennekam JJ, Benson RBJ, Herridge VL, Jeffery N, Torres-Roig E, Alcover JA, Cox PG. 2020. Morphological divergence in giant fossil dormice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1938), 20202085.


Martín-Serra A, Benson RBJ. 2020. Developmental constraints do not influence long-term phenotypic evolution of marsupial forelimbs as revealed by interspecific disparity and integration patterns. American Naturalist 195, 547-560.


Chapelle KEF, Benson RBJ, Stiegler J, Otero A, Zhao Q, Choiniere JN. 2020. A quantitative method for inferring locomotory shifts in amniotes during ontogeny, its application to dinosaurs and its bearing on the evolution of posture. Palaeontology 63, 229-242.


Godoy PL, Benson RBJ, Bronzati M, Butler RJ. 2019. The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19, 167.


Benevento GL, Benson RBJ, Friedman M. Patterns of mammalian jaw ecomorphological disparity during the Mesozoic/Cenozoic transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286, 20190347.


McPhee BW, Benson RBJ, Botha-Brink J, Bordy EM, Choiniere JN. 2018. A giant dinosaur from the earliest Cretaceous of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs. Current Biology 28, 3143-3151 (doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.063)


Benson RBJ, Hunt G, Carrano MT, Campione N. 2018 Cope’s rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution. Palaeontology 61, 13–48.