Richard J. Butler

The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

Stephen L. Brusatte, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Randall B. Irmis et al. · Earth-Science Reviews · 2010 · 294 citations

Evolutionary Biology, Cretaceous Period, Geochronology +1

Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

Roger Benson, Richard J. Butler, Johan Lindgren et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 227 citations

The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

Sterling J. Nesbitt, Richard J. Butler, Martín D. Ezcurra et al. · Nature · 2017 · 199 citations · Full text

Biology, Earliest Bird-line Archosaurs, Natural Sciences +7

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

Philip D. Mannion, Roger Benson, Matthew T. Carrano et al. · Nature Communications · 2015 · 195 citations · Full text

The extinction of the dinosaurs

Stephen L. Brusatte, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2014 · 172 citations · Full text

Engineering, Earth Science, Social Sciences +16