| The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs RJ Butler, P Upchurch, DB Norman Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 (01), 1-40, 2008 | 333 | 2008 |
| The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs SL Brusatte, SJ Nesbitt, RB Irmis, RJ Butler, MJ Benton, MA Norell Earth-Science Reviews 101 (1), 68-100, 2010 | 292 | 2010 |
| The extinction of the dinosaurs SL Brusatte, RJ Butler, PM Barrett, MT Carrano, DC Evans, GT Lloyd, ... Biological Reviews 90 (2), 628-642, 2015 | 212 | 2015 |
| Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, J Lindgren, AS Smith Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1683), 829, 2010 | 204 | 2010 |
| Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas PM Barrett, RJ Butler, NP Edwards, AR Milner | 197 | 2008 |
| The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, MD Ezcurra, PM Barrett, MR Stocker, KD Angielczyk, ... Nature 544 (7651), 484-487, 2017 | 175 | 2017 |
| Air‐filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the ‘reptile’–bird transition RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, MT Carrano, PM O’Connor Biological Reviews, 2011 | 164 | 2011 |
| Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians PD Mannion, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, JP Tennant, J Judd, RJ Butler Nature Communications 6, 8438, 2015 | 159 | 2015 |
| Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution RB Sookias, RJ Butler, RBJ Benson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1736), 2180, 2012 | 149 | 2012 |
| The Origin and Early Evolution of Sauria: Reassessing the Permian Saurian Fossil Record and the Timing of the Crocodile-Lizard Divergence MD Ezcurra, TM Scheyer, RJ Butler PLOS ONE 9 (2), e89165, 2014 | 142 | 2014 |
| Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic SL Brusatte, G Niedźwiedzki, RJ Butler Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1708), 1107-1113, 2011 | 136 | 2011 |
| Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria P Upchurch, PD Mannion, RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, MT Carrano Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 209-240, 2011 | 135 | 2011 |
| A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia RJ Butler, RMH Smith, DB Norman Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1621), 2041, 2007 | 135 | 2007 |
| Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement RJ Butler, PM Barrett, S Nowbath, P Upchurch Paleobiology 35 (3), 432, 2009 | 133 | 2009 |
| Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’hypothesis in the terrestrial realm RJ Butler, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, PD Mannion, P Upchurch Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1709), 1165-1170, 2011 | 130 | 2011 |
| The Sail-Backed Reptile Ctenosauriscus from the Latest Early Triassic of Germany and the Timing and Biogeography of the Early Archosaur Radiation RJ Butler, SL Brusatte, M Reich, SJ Nesbitt, RR Schoch, JJ Hornung PloS one 6 (10), e25693, 2011 | 129 | 2011 |
| The ‘fabrosaurid’ornithischian dinosaurs of the upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho RJ Butler Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (2), 175-218, 2005 | 127 | 2005 |
| Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases RBJ Benson, RJ Butler Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 191-208, 2011 | 126 | 2011 |
| HOW DO GEOLOGICAL SAMPLING BIASES AFFECT STUDIES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN DEEP TIME? A CASE STUDY OF PTEROSAUR (REPTILIA: ARCHOSAURIA) DISPARITY RJ Butler, SL Brusatte, B Andres, RBJ Benson Evolution, 2011 | 122 | 2011 |
| The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction MD Ezcurra, RJ Butler Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1880), 20180361, 2018 | 101 | 2018 |
Paul M BarrettMerit Researcher, Natural History Museum, LondonVerified email at nhm.ac.uk
