Prof. Dr. Richard James Butler

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPalaeontology
KeywordsMesozoic, 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

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityEdgbaston
InstitutionUniversity of Birmingham
InstituteSchool of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Oliver RauhutBayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie München (BSP), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2009

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2011Stephen 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
2011Laura 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
2011Richard 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
2011Xiaolin 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
2011Paul 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
2010Richard 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
2010Attila Osi, Richard J. Butler, David B. Weishampel: A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities. In: Nature, 2010, 466-468
2010Roger 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
2010Stephen 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