Michael Benton
Michael J. Benton | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | British  |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen and Newcastle University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Doctoral students | Graeme Lloyd, David Pisani, Manabu Sakamoto, Sarda Sahney |
Michael J. Benton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[1] and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.[2] His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record. His work appears in New Scientist.[3]
He is the author of several palaeontology text books (e.g. Vertebrate Palaeontology) and children's books.[4] He has also advised on many media productions including BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. His research interests include: Diversification of life, Quality of the fossil record, Shapes of phylogenies, Age-clade congruence, Mass extinctions,[5] Triassic ecosystem evolution, Basal diapsid phylogeny, Basal archosaurs, and The origin of the dinosaurs.
Journal Publications
- Sahney, S., Benton, M.J. and Paul Ferry 2010. "Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land." Biology Letters.
- Benton, J. 2009. "The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time." Science 323, 728-732.
- Lloyd, G. T., Davis, K. E., Pisani, D., Tarver, J. E., Ruta, M., Sakamoto, M., Hone, D. W. E., Jennings, R., and *Benton, M. J. 2008. "Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution." Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 275, 2483-2490.
- Sahney, S. and Benton, M.J., 2008. "Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time". Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 275, 759-765.v
- Benton, M. J. and Emerson, B. C. 2007. "How did life become so diverse? The dynamics of diversification according to the fossil record and molecular phylogenetics". Palaeontology 50: 23-40.
- Benton, m.J. and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2007. "Palaeontological evidence to date the tree of life". Molecular Biology and Evolution 24, 26-53.
Books
2005
- Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain, M. J. Benton, L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant, and J. J. Hooker
- Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain, M. J. Benton, L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant, and J. J. Hooker
- Vertebrate palaeontology (Third edition) by M. J. Benton
2003
- When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time by M. J. Benton
2002
- Permian and Triassic red beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain by M. J. Benton, E. Cook, and P. J. Turner
2000
- The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, edited by M. J. Benton, D. M. Unwin, M. A. Shishkin, and E. N. Kurochkin
- Walking with dinosaurs: the facts by M. J. Benton
1997
- Basic palaeontology by M. J. Benton and D. A. T. Harper
- Vertebrate palaeontology (Second edition) by M. J. Benton
1996
- The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs by M. J. Benton
- The Viking atlas of evolution by R. Osborne and M. J. Benton
1995
- Fossil reptiles of Great Britain by M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer
1993
- The fossil record 2 edited by M. J. Benton
1991
- The rise of the mammals by M. J. Benton
- The reign of the reptiles by M. J. Benton
1990
- On the trail of the dinosaurs by M. J. Benton
- Vertebrate palaeontology by M. J. Benton
1989
- Prehistoric Animals by M. J. Benton
1988
- The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by M. J. Benton
Chapters in Books
- Benton, Michael (2009). "Paleontology and the History of Life". Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 80–104. ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3.
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