Vertebrate palaeontology MJ Benton John Wiley & Sons, 2014 | 1320 | 2014 |
Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue Molecular biology and evolution 24 (1), 26-53, 2007 | 1057 | 2007 |
Diversification and extinction in the history of life MJ Benton Science 268 (5207), 52-58, 1995 | 922 | 1995 |
Archosaur phylogeny and the relationships of the Crocodylia MJ Benton, JM Clark The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods 1, 295-338, 1988 | 874 | 1988 |
Fossil Record 2 MJ Benton The fossil record 2, 1993 | 788 | 1993 |
The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction ZQ Chen, MJ Benton Nature Geoscience 5 (6), 375-383, 2012 | 771 | 2012 |
Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations JF Parham, PCJ Donoghue, CJ Bell, TD Calway, JJ Head, PA Holroyd, ... Systematic Biology 61 (2), 346-359, 2012 | 670 | 2012 |
How to kill (almost) all life: the end-Permian extinction event MJ Benton, RJ Twitchett Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18 (7), 358-365, 2003 | 624 | 2003 |
The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time MJ Benton Science 323 (5915), 728-732, 2009 | 606 | 2009 |
When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time MJ Benton Thames & Hudson, 2003 | 604 | 2003 |
Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs SL Brusatte, MJ Benton, M Ruta, GT Lloyd Science 321 (5895), 1485-1488, 2008 | 466 | 2008 |
Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles MJ Benton Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 (2), 97-164, 1985 | 451 | 1985 |
Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules PCJ Donoghue, MJ Benton Trends in ecology & evolution 22 (8), 424-431, 2007 | 414 | 2007 |
Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time S Sahney, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1636), 759-765, 2008 | 405 | 2008 |
Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution GT Lloyd, KE Davis, D Pisani, JE Tarver, M Ruta, M Sakamoto, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1650), 2483-2490, 2008 | 379 | 2008 |
Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds F Zhang, SL Kearns, PJ Orr, MJ Benton, Z Zhou, D Johnson, X Xu, ... Nature 463 (7284), 1075-1078, 2010 | 349 | 2010 |
Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain MJ Benton, PS Spencer Springer Science & Business Media, 1995 | 336* | 1995 |
Early Jurassic mass extinction: a global long-term event CTS Little, MJ Benton Geology 23 (6), 495-498, 1995 | 323 | 1995 |
Phylogeny of the major tetrapod groups: morphological data and divergence dates MJ Benton Journal of Molecular Evolution 30, 409-424, 1990 | 322 | 1990 |
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman, TJ Near, J Vinther | 308 | 2015 |