The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs
- R. Butler, P. Upchurch, D. Norman
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 1 January 2008
Surprisingly, Heterodontosauridae is placed as the most basal group of all well‐known ornithischians, phylogenetically distant from a stem‐defined Ornithopoda, creating a topology that is more congruent with the known Ornithischian stratigraphical record.
The 'fabrosaurid' ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho
- R. Butler
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2005
Stormbergia dangershoeki is significantly larger than previously described Elliot Formation ornithischians, and can be recognized on the basis of a unique combination of characters, the most important of which is the possession of a distinctive tab-shaped obturator process on the ischium.
Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates
- R. Benson, R. Butler, J. Lindgren, Adam S. Smith
- Environmental Science, GeographyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 March 2010
Some evidence supports an extinction event near the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary, but the proposed end-Cenomanian extinction is probably an artefact of poor sampling, and consideration of sampling biases allows re-evaluation of proposed mass extinction events.
A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia
- R. Butler, Roger M. H. Smith, D. Norman
- Geography, Environmental ScienceProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 August 2007
Although the group played an important role in the evolution of Late Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, the early evolutionary history of the ornithischian dinosaurs remains poorly understood. Here, we…
The Lower Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton & Charig, 1962: cranial anatomy, functional morphology, taxonomy, and relationships
- D. Norman, A. Crompton, R. Butler, Laura B. Porro, Laura B. Porro, A. Charig
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 September 2011
Details of the cranial anatomy are revealed and show that the skull is unexpectedly specialized in such an early representative of the Ornithischia, including the closely packed, hypsodont crowns and ‘warping’ of the occlusal surfaces seen in the cheek dentition and jaw musculature.
The Origin and Early Evolution of Sauria: Reassessing the Permian Saurian Fossil Record and the Timing of the Crocodile-Lizard Divergence
- M. Ezcurra, T. Scheyer, R. Butler
- Geography, Environmental SciencePLoS ONE
- 27 February 2014
A revision suggests a minimum fossil calibration date for the crocodile-lizard split of 254.7 Ma, and early archosauromorph growth strategies appear to be more diverse than previously suggested based on new data on the osteohistology of Aenigmastropheus.
Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas
- P. Barrett, R. Butler, N. Edwards, A. Milner
- Geography
- 2008
The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs
- S. Brusatte, S. Nesbitt, R. Irmis, R. Butler, M. Benton, M. Norell
- Geography, Environmental Science
- 1 July 2010
The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan.
- S. Nesbitt, R. Butler, A. Charig
- Biology, Environmental ScienceNature
- 27 April 2017
It is demonstrated that several anatomical features long thought to characterize Dinosauria and dinosauriforms evolved much earlier, soon after the bird-crocodylian split, and that the earliest avemetatarsalians retained the croc Codylian-like ankle morphology and hindlimb proportions of stem archosaurs and early pseudosuchians.
Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’ hypothesis in the terrestrial realm
- R. Butler, R. Benson, M. Carrano, P. Mannion, P. Upchurch
- Environmental Science, GeographyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 April 2011
The fossil record is our primary window onto the diversification of ancient life, but there are widespread concerns that sampling biases may distort observed palaeodiversity counts. Such concerns…
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