So Volcanoes Created the Dinosaurs? A Quantitative Characterization of the Early Evolution of Terrestrial Pan-Aves

Reconstructed evolutionary patterns for crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate impact of failure to log-transform body size data

(2022) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   Communications Biology

Northward dispersal of dinosaurs from Gondwana to Greenland at the mid-Norian (215–212 Ma, Late Triassic) dip in atmospheric pCO2

(2021) Dennis V. Kent et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A New Erythrosuchid Archosauriform from the Middle Triassic Yerrapalli Formation of South-Central India

(2021) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   AMEGHINIANA

Review of the fossil record of early dinosaurs from South America, and its phylogenetic implications

(2021) Fernando E. Novas et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation

(2021) Thomas L. Stubbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Empirical and Methodological Challenges to the Model-Based Inference of Diversification Rates in Extinct Clades

(2021) David Černý et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Body Size Disparity of the Archosauromorph Reptiles during the First 90 Million Years of Their Evolution

(2021) Luciano A. Pradelli et al.   AMEGHINIANA

RevGadgets: An R package for visualizing Bayesian phylogenetic analyses from RevBayes

(2021) Carrie M. Tribble et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Sauropodomorph evolution across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary: body size, locomotion, and their influence on morphological disparity

(2021) Cecilia Apaldetti et al.   Scientific Reports

Pendraig milnerae , a new small-sized coelophysoid theropod from the Late Triassic of Wales

(2021) Stephan N. F. Spiekman et al.   Royal Society Open Science

An unbiased molecular approach using 3’UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life

(2020) H Kuhl et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry

(2020) Christian F. Kammerer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation at Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, Argentina): fossil tetrapods, high-resolution chronostratigraphy, and faunal correlations

(2020) Julia B. Desojo et al.   Scientific Reports

A paraphyletic ‘Silesauridae' as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs

(2020) Rodrigo Temp Müller et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence for the Carnian Pluvial Episode in Gondwana: New multiproxy climate records and their bearing on early dinosaur diversification

(2020) Adriana C. Mancuso et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

(2020) Jacopo Dal Corso et al.   Science Advances

Extinction of herbivorous dinosaurs linked to Early Jurassic global warming event

(2020) D. Pol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large neotheropods from the Upper Triassic of North America and the early evolution of large theropod body sizes

(2019) Christopher T. Griffin   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Does the Maximum Body Size of Theropods Increase across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary? Integrating Ontogeny, Phylogeny, and Body Size

(2019) Christopher T. Griffin et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework

(2019) Daniele Silvestro et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs

(2019) Cristian Pacheco et al.   PeerJ

Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

(2018) Max C. Langer et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

(2018) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode

(2018) Massimo Bernardi et al.   Nature Communications

dispRity : A modular R package for measuring disparity

(2018) Thomas Guillerme   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history?

(2018) Jonathan P. Tennant et al.   PeerJ

An early trend towards gigantism in Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs

(2018) Cecilia Apaldetti et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dinosaur Macroevolution and Macroecology

(2018) Roger B.J. Benson   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution

(2017) Matthew G. Baron et al.   NATURE

Russia–UK Collaboration in Paleontology: Past, Present, and Future

(2017) M. J. Benton et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

(2017) S. D. Burgess et al.   Nature Communications

End-Triassic mass extinction started by intrusive CAMP activity

(2017) J.H.F.L. Davies et al.   Nature Communications

A new horned and long-necked herbivorous stem-archosaur from the Middle Triassic of India

(2017) Saradee Sengupta et al.   Scientific Reports

Deep faunistic turnovers preceded the rise of dinosaurs in southwestern Pangaea

(2017) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Empirical and Bayesian approaches to fossil-only divergence times: A study across three reptile clades

(2017) Alan H. Turner et al.   PLoS One

How many dinosaur species were there? Fossil bias and true richness estimated using a Poisson sampling model

(2016) Jostein Starrfelt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years before their final extinction

(2016) Manabu Sakamoto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RevBayes: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference Using Graphical Models and an Interactive Model-Specification Language

(2016) Sebastian Höhna et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies

(2015) Joanna Baker et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins

(2015) Claudia A. Marsicano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extreme ecosystem instability suppressed tropical dinosaur dominance for 30 million years

(2015) Jessica H. Whiteside et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pedal Proportions ofPoposaurus gracilis: Convergence and Divergence in the Feet of Archosaurs

(2014) James O. Farlow et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Morphological Clocks in Paleontology, and a Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Crown Aves

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

PyRate: a new program to estimate speciation and extinction rates from incomplete fossil data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

(2014) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Bayesian Inference of Sampled Ancestor Trees for Epidemiology and Fossil Calibration

(2014) Alexandra Gavryushkina et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A new silesaurid from the upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) demonstrates the rapid diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes)

(2013) Brandon R. Peecook et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Links the End-Triassic Extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

(2013) T. J. Blackburn et al.   SCIENCE

Biology, not environment, drives major patterns in maximum tetrapod body size through time

(2012) R. B. Sookias et al.   Biology Letters

The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania

(2012) S. J. Nesbitt et al.   Biology Letters

Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria)

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

(2012) R. B. Sookias et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

(2012) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evaluating hypotheses for the early diversification of dinosaurs

(2011) Randall B. Irmis   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

A new early dinosaur (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Argentina: a reassessment of dinosaur origin and phylogeny

(2011) Martin D. Ezcurra   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Multiple routes to mammalian diversity

(2011) Chris Venditti et al.   NATURE

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time

(2010) Philip D. Mannion et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees

(2010) Tanja Stadler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Long-bone circumference and weight in mammals, birds and dinosaurs

(2010) J. F. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

(2010) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   NATURE

Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth's largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction

(2010) J. H. Whiteside et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic

(2010) S. L. Brusatte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm

(2010) R. J. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

(2009) Max C. Langer et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Dinosaur diversity and the rock record

(2009) P. M. Barrett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Complete Skeleton of a Late Triassic Saurischian and the Early Evolution of Dinosaurs

(2009) S. J. Nesbitt et al.   SCIENCE

The first 50 Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

(2008) S. L. Brusatte et al.   Biology Letters

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2008) G. T Lloyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES