Michael J. Benton
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- This page is about the paleontologist Michael J. Benton. For the American Foreign Service Officer see Michael L. Benton
Michael J. Benton is a professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.
He is the author of several palaeontology text books (e.g. Vertebrate Palaeontology) and children's books. He has also advised on many media productions including BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs.
[edit] Research Interests
- Diversification of life
- Quality of the fossil record
- Shapes of phylogenies
- Age-clade congruence
- Mass extinctions
- Triassic ecosystem evolution
- Basal diapsid phylogeny
- Basal archosaurs
- The origin of the dinosaurs
[edit] Publications
- 2005 Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain by M. J. Benton, L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant, and J. J. Hooker
- 2005 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
- 2000 Walking with dinosaurs: the facts by M. J. Benton
- 1997 Basic palaeontology by M. J. Benton and D. A. T. Harper
- 1997 Vertebrate palaeontology (Second edition) by M. J. Benton
- 1996 The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs by M. J. Benton
- 1996 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
- 1991 The reign of the reptiles by M. J. Benton
- 1990 On the trail of the dinosaurs by M. J. Benton
- 1990 Vertebrate palaeontology by M. J. Benton
- 1988 The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by M. J. Benton
