Sea level regulated tetrapod diversity dynamics through the Jurassic/Cretaceous interval

High diversity in the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa: Implications for the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition

(2016) Blair W. McPhee et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

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

Environmental drivers of crocodyliform extinction across the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition

(2016) Jonathan P. Tennant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility

(2016) Valentin Fischer et al.   Nature Communications

The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia

(2015) Alfio A. Chiarenza et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Palaeodiversity and formation counts: redundancy or bias?

(2015) Michael J. Benton   PALAEONTOLOGY

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

(2015) Philip D. Mannion et al.   Nature Communications

Climate-mediated diversification of turtles in the Cretaceous

(2015) David B. Nicholson et al.   Nature Communications

Diversification events and the effects of mass extinctions on Crocodyliformes evolutionary history: Figure 1.

(2015) Mario Bronzati et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Peculiar macrophagous adaptations in a new Cretaceous pliosaurid

(2015) Valentin Fischer et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group

(2014) Brian Andres et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mesozoic mammaliaform diversity: The effect of sampling corrections on reconstructions of evolutionary dynamics

(2014) Elis Newham et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The origins of crown group birds: molecules and fossils

(2014) Gerald Mayr   PALAEONTOLOGY

Disentangling rock record bias and common-cause from redundancy in the British fossil record

(2014) Alexander M. Dunhill et al.   Nature Communications

Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition

(2013) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs

(2013) V. Fischer et al.   Biology Letters

Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)

(2013) Marc EH Jones et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem

(2013) Yanhong Pan et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaurLusotitan atalaiensis(Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

(2013) Philip D. Mannion et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

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

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

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

The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality

(2012) Michael J. Benton et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

New Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous Demonstrate Extensive Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary

(2012) Valentin Fischer et al.   PLoS One

Phanerozoic marine diversity: rock record modelling provides an independent test of large-scale trends

(2012) A. B. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

EXTINCTION, ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY, AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL SNAKE DIVERSITY

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   EVOLUTION

HOW DO GEOLOGICAL SAMPLING BIASES AFFECT STUDIES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN DEEP TIME? A CASE STUDY OF PTEROSAUR (REPTILIA: ARCHOSAURIA) DISPARITY

(2011) Richard J. Butler et al.   EVOLUTION

Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity

(2011) B. Hannisdal et al.   SCIENCE

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

Covariation in macrostratigraphic and macroevolutionary patterns in the marine record of North America

(2010) N. A. Heim et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The geological completeness of paleontological sampling in North America

(2010) Shanan E. Peters et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A ubiquitous ∼62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. I. Documentation

(2010) Adrian L. Melott et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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 Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

Revisiting Raup: exploring the influence of outcrop area on diversity in light of modern sample-standardization techniques

(2009) Patrick D. Wall et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Compilation and time-series analysis of a marine carbonate δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr/86Sr and δ34S database through Earth history

(2008) A. Prokoph et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS