Evidence for a mid-Jurassic adaptive radiation in mammals RA Close, M Friedman, GT Lloyd, RBJ Benson Current Biology 25 (16), 2137-2142, 2015 | 127 | 2015 |
The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity RA Close, RBJ Benson, EE Saupe, ME Clapham, RJ Butler Science 368 (6489), 420-424, 2020 | 91 | 2020 |
How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling‐standardised discovery curves RA Close, SW Evers, J Alroy, RJ Butler Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (6), 1386-1400, 2018 | 86 | 2018 |
Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification RA Close, RBJ Benson, P Upchurch, RJ Butler Nature Communications 8 (1), 15381, 2017 | 78 | 2017 |
Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the ‘Carboniferous rainforest collapse’ EM Dunne, RA Close, DJ Button, N Brocklehurst, DD Cashmore, GT Lloyd, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1872), 20172730, 2018 | 69 | 2018 |
The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten M Friedman, HT Beckett, RA Close, Z Johanson Geological Society, London, Special Publications 430 (1), 165-200, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
Comparative analysis of vestibular ecomorphology in birds RBJ Benson, E Starmer‐Jones, RA Close, SA Walsh Journal of Anatomy 231 (6), 990-1018, 2017 | 54 | 2017 |
Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record RBJ Benson, R Butler, RA Close, E Saupe, DL Rabosky Current Biology 31 (19), R1225-R1236, 2021 | 53 | 2021 |
The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases RA Close, RBJ Benson, J Alroy, MT Carrano, TJ Cleary, EM Dunne, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1924), 20200372, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
Functional morphometric analysis of the furcula in Mesozoic birds RA Close, EJ Rayfield PLoS One 7 (5), e36664, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale RA Close, RBJ Benson, J Alroy, AK Behrensmeyer, J Benito, MT Carrano, ... Nature ecology & evolution 3 (4), 590-597, 2019 | 47 | 2019 |
Earliest Gondwanan bird from the Cretaceous of southeastern Australia RA Close, P Vickers-Rich, P Trusler, LM Chiappe, J O'connor, TH Rich, ... Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (2), 616-619, 2009 | 26 | 2009 |
A lower jaw of Palaeoxonodon from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, sheds new light on the diversity of British stem therians RA Close, BM Davis, S Walsh, AS Wolniewicz, M Friedman, RBJ Benson Palaeontology 59 (1), 155-169, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms RA Close, Z Johanson, JC Tyler, RC Harrington, M Friedman Palaeontology 59 (4), 499-514, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
Mechanistic neutral models show that sampling biases drive the apparent explosion of early tetrapod diversity EM Dunne, SED Thompson, RJ Butler, J Rosindell, RA Close Nature ecology & evolution 7 (9), 1480-1489, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes GL Benevento, RBJ Benson, RA Close, RJ Butler Palaeontology 66 (3), e12653, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Early tetrapod diversification under neutral theory EM Dunne, SED Thompson, RJ Butler, J Rosindell, RA Close bioRxiv, 2022.02. 08.476633, 2022 | | 2022 |
Testing Hypotheses of Early Tetrapod Diversity and Biogeography E Dunne, S Thompson, R Close, J Rosindell, R Butler EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 9946, 2018 | | 2018 |
A remarkable new beaked tetraodontiform fish from the early Eocene London Clay Formation, UK Z Johanson, RA Close, JC Tyler, M Friedman INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 55, E279-E279, 2015 | | 2015 |
Getting inside the heads of Cretaceous-Paleogene teleosts: new morphological and functional data from the exceptional fish fossils of the English Chalk and London Clay RA Close, H Beckett, N Macleod, Z Johanson, M Friedman INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 54, E39-E39, 2014 | | 2014 |