Richard J. Butler - Publications, H-index & Citations

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Richard J. Butler

University of Birmingham

59H-index

339Paper Count

9.8KCitation Count

Published Papers 48

Publication Date

Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur

Nature

IF48.5

2025-08-27

PREAI

Susannah C. R. Maidment; Driss Ouarhache; Kawtar Ech-charay; Ahmed Oussou; Khadija Boumir; Abdessalam El Khanchoufi; Alison Park; Luke E. Meade; D. Cary Woodruff; Simon Wills; Mike Smith; Paul M. Barrett; Richard J. Butler

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New frontiers in dinosaur exploration

Biology Letters

IF3

2025-04-30

OAAI

Susannah Maidment; Richard J. Butler

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Hand and foot morphology maps invasion of terrestrial environments by pterosaurs in the mid-Mesozoic

CURRENT BIOLOGY

IF7.5

2024-11-01

OAAI

Smyth, Robert S. H.; Breithaupt, Brent H.; Butler, Richard J.; Falkingham, Peter L.; Unwin, David M.

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Mechanistic neutral models show that sampling biases drive the apparent explosion of early tetrapod diversity

NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

IF14.5

2023-07-27

OAAI

Dunne, Emma M.; Thompson, Samuel E. D.; Butler, Richard J.; Rosindell, James; Close, Roger A.

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Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs

CURRENT BIOLOGY

IF7.5

2023-01-01

OAAI

Dunne, Emma M.; Farnsworth, Alexander; Benson, Roger B. J.; Godoy, Pedro L.; Greene, Sarah E.; Valdes, Paul J.; Lunt, Daniel J.; Butler, Richard J.

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

COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY

IF5.1

2022-02-25

OAAI

Benson, Roger B. J.; Godoy, Pedro; Bronzati, Mario; Butler, Richard J.; Gearty, William

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Macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaur feeding mechanics

CURRENT BIOLOGY

IF7.5

2022-02-01

OAAI

Ma, Waisum; Pittman, Michael; Butler, Richard J.; Lautenschlager, Stephan

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Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

CURRENT BIOLOGY

IF7.5

2021-10-01

OAAI

Benson, Roger B. J.; Butler, Richard; Close, Roger A.; Saupe, Erin; Rabosky, Daniel L.

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A new Heterodontosaurus specimen elucidates the unique ventilatory macroevolution of ornithischian dinosaurs

ELIFE

IF0

2021-07-06

OAAI

Radermacher, Viktor J.; Fernandez, Vincent; Schachner, Emma R.; Butler, Richard J.; Bordy, Emese M.; Hudgins, Michael Naylor; de Klerk, William J.; Chapelle, Kimberley Ej; Choiniere, Jonah N.

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Deep-time biodiversity patterns and the dinosaurian fossil record of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior, North America

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

IF3.5

2021-06-23

OAAI

Maidment, Susannah C. R.; Dean, Christopher D.; Mansergh, Robert I.; Butler, Richard J.

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New species of mammaliaform and the cranium of Borealestes (Mammaliformes: Docodonta) from the Middle Jurassic of the British Isles

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

IF2.8

2021-01-27

OAAI

Panciroli, Elsa; Benson, Roger B. J.; Fernandez, Vincent; Butler, Richard J.; Fraser, Nicholas C.; Luo, Zhe-Xi; Walsh, Stig

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Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

IF15.7

2020-10-28

OAAI

Bestwick, Jordan; Unwin, David M.; Butler, Richard J.; Purnell, Mark A.

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A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) of central England

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

IF2.8

2020-06-23

OAAI

Ezcurra, Martin D.; Butler, Richard J.; Maidment, Susannah C. R.; Sansom, Ivan J.; Meade, Luke E.; Radley, Jonathan D.

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The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

IF3.5

2020-04-08

OAAI

Close, Roger A.; Benson, Roger B. J.; Alroy, John; Carrano, Matthew T.; Cleary, Terri J.; Dunne, Emma M.; Mannion, Philip D.; Uhen, Mark D.; Butler, Richard J.

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Osteology of the archosauromorph Teyujagua paradoxa and the early evolution of the archosauriform skull

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

IF2.8

2019-10-11

OAAI

Pinheiro, Felipe L.; De Simao-Oliveira, Daniel; Butler, Richard J.

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Description and phylogenetic placement of a new marine species of phytosaur (Archosauriformes: Phytosauria) from the Late Triassic of Austria

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

IF2.8

2019-05-08

OAAI

Butler, Richard J.; Jones, Andrew S.; Buffetaut, Eric; Mandl, Gerhard W.; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Schultz, Ortwin

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Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale

NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

IF14.5

2019-02-18

OAAI

Close, Roger A.; Benson, Roger B. J.; Alroy, John; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Benito, Juan; Carrano, Matthew T.; Cleary, Terri J.; Dunne, Emma M.; Mannion, Philip D.; Uhen, Mark D.; Butler, Richard J.

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The osteology of the holotype of the early erythrosuchid Garjainia prima (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the upper Lower Triassic of European Russia

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

IF2.8

2018-12-05

OAAI

Ezcurra, Martn D.; Gower, David J.; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Butler, Richard J.

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

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

IF3.5

2018-06-13