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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Palaeontology |
| Keywords | Mesozoic, Dinosaurs, Diversity, Evolution, Extinction |
| Honours and awards | 2023: President's Medal, Palaeontological Association 2019: Founders’ Award for Academic Excellence, University of Birmingham 2016: Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research Supervision, University of Birmingham 2015: ERC Starting Grant 2011: DFG Emmy Noether Programme recipient 2011: Palaeontological Association - Hodson Award 2005: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Predoctoral Fellowship |
Current contact address
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| City | Edgbaston |
| Institution | University of Birmingham |
| Institute | School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Oliver Rauhut | Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie München (BSP), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2009 |
Programme(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2011 | Stephen L. Brusatte, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Richard J. Butler: Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem-lineage deep into Early Triassic. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 2011, 1107-1113 |
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| 2011 | Laura B. Porro, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett, Scott Moore-Fay, Richard L. Abel: New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation. In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2011, 351-366 |
| 2011 | Richard J. Butler, Randall B. Irmis, Max C. Langer: Preface to 'Late Triassic Terrestrial Biotas and the Rise of Dinosaurs' special issue. In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2011, v-ix |
| 2011 | Xiaolin Wang, Rui Pan, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett: The postcranial skeleton of the iguanodontian ornithopod Jinzhousaurus yangi from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2011, 135-159 |
| 2011 | Paul M. Barrett, Richard J. Butler, Sterling J. Nesbitt: The roles of herbivory and omnivory in early dinosaur evolution. In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2011, 383-396 |
| 2010 | Richard J. Butler, Peter M. Galton, Laura B. Porro, Luis M. Chiappe, Donald M. Henderson, Gregory M. Erickson: Lower limits of ornithischian dinosaur body size inferred from a new Upper Jurassic heterodontosaurid from North America. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 2010, 375-381 |
| 2010 | Attila Osi, Richard J. Butler, David B. Weishampel: A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities. In: Nature, 2010, 466-468 |
| 2010 | Roger B. J. Benson, Richard J. Butler, Johan Lindgren, Adam S. Smith Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geologic megabiases affecting vertebrates. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 2010, 829-834 |
| 2010 | Stephen L. Brusatte, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Randall B. Irmis, Richard J. Butler, Michael J. Benton, Mark A. Norell: The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs. In: Earth-Science Reviews, 2010, 68-100 |