Ecomorphological diversifications of Mesozoic marine reptiles: the roles of ecological opportunity and extinction

The evolution and extinction of the ichthyosaurs from the perspective of quantitative ecospace modelling

(2015) Daniel G. Dick et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence for a Mid-Jurassic Adaptive Radiation in Mammals

(2015) Roger A. Close et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Feeding ecology of the deep-bodied fishDapedium(Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from the Sinemurian of Dorset, England

(2015) Fiann M. Smithwick   PALAEONTOLOGY

The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases

(2015) Terri J. Cleary et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

(2015) N. P. Kelley et al.   SCIENCE

Lunge feeding in early marine reptiles and fast evolution of marine tetrapod feeding guilds

(2015) Ryosuke Motani et al.   Scientific Reports

Models for the Rise of the Dinosaurs

(2014) Michael J. Benton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates

(2014) N. Bardet et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Unique method of tooth replacement in durophagous placodont marine reptiles, with new data on the dentition of Chinese taxa

(2014) James M. Neenan et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

A new marine reptile from the Triassic of China, with a highly specialized feeding adaptation

(2014) Long Cheng et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Marine tetrapod macroevolution: Physical and biological drivers on 250Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystems

(2014) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective

(2014) Torsten M. Scheyer et al.   PLoS One

Cranial biomechanics underpins high sauropod diversity in resource-poor environments

(2014) D. J. Button et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A gigantic nothosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and its implication for the Triassic biotic recovery

(2014) Jun Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages

(2014) Gary A. Wellborn et al.   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

Late to the Table: Diversification of Tetrapod Mandibular Biomechanics Lagged Behind the Evolution of Terrestriality

(2013) P. S. L. Anderson et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution

(2013) Michael J. Polcyn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic and the origin of modern trophic networks

(2013) Nadia B. Fröbisch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution

(2013) Martin Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids

(2013) M. Ruta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological and biomechanical disparity of crocodile-line archosaurs following the end-Triassic extinction

(2013) T. L. Stubbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When should we expect early bursts of trait evolution in comparative data? Predictions from an evolutionary food web model

(2012) T. Ingram et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

(2012) Zhong-Qiang Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Pterosaur diversity: Untangling the influence of sampling biases, Lagerstätten, and genuine biodiversity signals

(2012) Richard J. Butler et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Selective extinction of Triassic marine reptiles during long-term sea-level changes illuminated by seawater strontium isotopes

(2012) Neil P. Kelley et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Five hundred million years of extinction and recovery: a phanerozoic survey of large-scale diversity patterns in fishes

(2012) MATT FRIEDMAN et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary

(2012) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLoS One

Graptoloid diversity and disparity became decoupled during the Ordovician mass extinction

(2012) D. W. Bapst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for determinism in species diversification and contingency in phenotypic evolution during adaptive radiation

(2012) F. T. Burbrink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Initial radiation of jaws demonstrated stability despite faunal and environmental change

(2011) Philip S. L. Anderson et al.   NATURE

Resetting the evolution of marine reptiles at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

(2011) P. M. Thorne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parallel evolutionary trajectories underlie the origin of giant suspension-feeding whales and bony fishes

(2011) M. Friedman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Heads or tails: staged diversification in vertebrate evolutionary radiations

(2011) L. C. Sallan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

(2010) J. B. YODER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Post-Paleozoic crinoid radiation in response to benthic predation preceded the Mesozoic marine revolution

(2010) T. K. Baumiller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans

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

The Luoping biota: exceptional preservation, and new evidence on the Triassic recovery from end-Permian mass extinction

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

The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics

(2010) MARK T. YOUNG et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Charting the Late Cretaceous seas: mosasaur richness and morphological diversification

(2009) Marcus R. Ross   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Biomechanics, functional patterns, and disparity in Late Devonian arthrodires

(2009) Philip S. L. Anderson   PALEOBIOLOGY

Ecomorphological selectivity among marine teleost fishes during the end-Cretaceous extinction

(2009) M. Friedman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

(2009) R. B. J. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Radiation of Extant Cetaceans Driven by Restructuring of the Oceans

(2009) Mette E. Steeman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history

(2008) D. H. Erwin   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs

(2008) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   SCIENCE