Michael Benton

Michael Benton
OBE FRS FRSE
Michael Benton at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2014
Born
Michael James Benton

(1956-04-08) 8 April 1956 (age 68)[2]
Scotland
NationalityBritish
EducationRobert Gordon's College
Alma mater
Known forBentonyx
AwardsLyell Medal (2005)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
ThesisThe Triassic reptile Hyperodapedon from Elgin, functional morphology and relationships (1981)
Websitewww.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mike-j-benton

Michael James Benton (born 8 April 1956[2]) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.[3][4][5] His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record.[1][6][7]

  1. ^ a b Michael Benton publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c Anon (2015). "Benton, Prof. Michael James". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U43387. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Liz Loeffler. "People: Earth Sciences: University of Bristol". bris.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Professor Mike Benton – School of Earth Sciences". Bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. ^ Benton, M. J. (2009). "The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time". Science. 323 (5915): 728–32. Bibcode:2009Sci...323..728B. doi:10.1126/science.1157719. PMID 19197051. S2CID 206512702.
  7. ^ Lloyd, G. T.; Davis, K. E.; Pisani, D.; Tarver, J. E.; Ruta, M.; Sakamoto, M.; Hone, D. W. E.; Jennings, R.; Benton, M. J. (2008). "Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275 (1650): 2483–90. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0715. PMC 2603200. PMID 18647715.