Roger Benson

This paper describes new fossil data on Aelurognathus tigriceps, focusing on the pelvic girdle, hind limbs, and tail, providing insights into gorgonopsian postcranial morphology.

The paper examines how vertebral morphology evolves in Lake Malawi cichlids, finding strong integration between precaudal and caudal vertebrae shapes during body elongation.

This paper proposes a revised nomenclature for avian quadrate morphology and investigates its evolutionary patterns across bird clades.

The paper quantifies diversity patterns in reef-supporting and non-reef-supporting regions across the Phanerozoic, finding reef regions consistently more diverse.

Synchrotron microtomography and a 167-taxon phylogenetic matrix place Millerettidae as sister to Neodiapsida (forming Parapleurota), dismantling Parareptilia and Eureptilia while dating tympanic hearing to the middle Permian.

This study shows that changes in vertebral regionalisation in African cichlids are driven by somite number changes, with homeotic effects as a by-product, and that intraspecific variation is canalised and decoupled from macroevolutionary patterns.

The paper examines macroevolutionary dynamics in African cichlid radiations, finding inverse correlation between vertebral count evolution rates and radiation age, but no early burst pattern within individual systems.

This study identifies phylogenetically informative characters in the pectoral girdle and forelimb skeleton of extant birds, highlighting challenges in morphological phylogenetics and the utility of combining morphology with molecular data.

The paper presents a dataset of whole-body CT scans of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes, enabling morphological study and comparisons across species.

This study quantifies avian quadrate morphology variation and its relationship with ecological features across 200 bird species, finding stronger associations with allometry and phylogeny than feeding ecology.