A

Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2012) The roots of amphibian morphospace: a geometric morphometric analysis of paleozoic temnospondyls. In: Studies in vertebrate paleobiology: essays in honor of John R. Bolt. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences (5). Field Museum of Natural History, pp. 40-58. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

B

Benton, Michael J. and Ruta, Marcello and Dunhill, Alexander M. and Sakamoto, Manabu (2013) The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 372 . pp. 18-41. ISSN 0031-0182

Bernard, Emma L. and Ruta, Marcello and Tarver, James E. and Benton, Michael J. (2010) The fossil record of early tetrapods: worker effort and the end-Permian mass extinction. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 55 (2). pp. 229-239. ISSN 0567-7920

Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Ruta, Marcello and Deeming, D. Charles (2013) Evolution of parental incubation behaviour in dinosaurs cannot be inferred from clutch mass in birds. Biology Letters, 9 (4). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1744-9561

C

Cisneros, Juan Carlos and Ruta, Marcello (2010) Morphological diversity and biogeography of procolophonids (Amniota: Parareptilia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8 (4). pp. 607-625. ISSN 1477-2019

Coates, Michael I. and Ruta, Marcello and Friedman, Matt (2008) Ever since Owen: changing perspectives on the early evolution of tetrapods. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 39 . pp. 571-592. ISSN 1543-592X

D

Deeming, Charles and Birchard, Geoffrey (2009) Why were extinct gigantic birds so small? Avian Biology Research, 1 (4). pp. 187-194. ISSN 1758-1559

G

Gu, Jun-Jie and Montealegre-Z, Fernando and Robert, Daniel and Engel, Michael S. and Qiao, Ge-Xia and Ren, Dong (2012) Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (10). pp. 3868-3873. ISSN 0027-8424

L

Lu, Junchang and Unwin, David M. and Deeming, D. Charles and Jin, Xingsheng and Liu, Yongqing and Ji, Qiang (2011) An egg-adult association and its implications for gender and reproduction in pterosaurs. Science, 331 (6015). pp. 321-324. ISSN 0193-4511

P

Prentice, Katherine C. and Ruta, Marcello and Benton, Michael J. (2011) Evolution of morphological disparity in pterosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 9 (3). pp. 337-353. ISSN 1477-2019

R

Ruta, Marcello and Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. ISSN 0031-0239

Ruta, Marcello (2009) Patterns of morphological evolution in major groups of paleozoic temnospondyli (Amphibia: tetrapoda). In: Patterns and Processes in Early Vertebrate Evolution. Special Papers in Palaeontology (81). Wiley-Blackwell / Palaeontological Association, Oxford, pp. 91-120. ISBN 9781405199209

Ruta, Marcello (2011) Phylogenetic signal and character compatibility in the appendicular skeleton of early tetrapods. In: Studies on Fossil Tetrapods. Special Papers in Palaeontology (86). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 31-43. ISBN 9781444361896

Ruta, Marcello and Benton, Michael J. (2008) Calibrated diversity, tree topology and the mother of mass extinctions: the lesson of temnospondyls. Palaeontology, 51 (6). pp. 1261-1288. ISSN 0031-0239

Ruta, Marcello and Bolt, John R. (2008) The brachyopoid Hadrokkosaurus bradyi from the early Middle Triassic of Arizona, and a phylogenetic analysis of lower jaw characters in temnospondyl amphibians. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53 (4). pp. 579-592. ISSN 0567-7920

Ruta, Marcello and Bolt, John R. (2006) A reassessment of the temnospondyl amphibian Perryella olsoni from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 97 (2). pp. 113-165. ISSN 1755-6910

Ruta, Marcello and Cisneros, Juan C. and Liebrecht, Torsten and Tsuji, Linda A. and Muller, Johannes (2011) Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology, 54 (5). pp. 1117-1137. ISSN 0031-0239

Ruta, Marcello and Clack, Jennifer A. (2006) A review of Silvanerpeton miripedes, a stem amniote from the Lower Carboniferous of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 97 (1). pp. 31-63. ISSN 1755-6910

Ruta, Marcello and Coates, Michael I. (2007) Dates, nodes and character conflict: addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 5 (1). pp. 69-122. ISSN 1477-2019

Ruta, Marcello and Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931

S

Sakamoto, Manabu and Ruta, Marcello (2012) Convergence and divergence in the evolution of cat skulls: temporal and spatial patterns of morphological diversity. PLoS ONE, 7 (e39752). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1932-6203

T

Thorne, Philippa M. and Ruta, Marcello and Benton, Michael J. (2011) Resetting the evolution of marine reptiles at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (20). pp. 8339-8344. ISSN 0027-8424

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Unwin, David and Deeming, Charles (2008) Pterosaur eggshell structure and its implications for pterosaur reproductive biology. Zitteliana: an international journal of palaeontology and geobiology, B28 . pp. 199-207. ISSN 1612-412X, 1612-4138

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Wills, M. A. and Gerber, S. and Ruta, M. and Hughes, M. (2012) The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25 (10). pp. 2056-2076. ISSN 1010-061X

Witzmann, Florian and Scholz, Henning and Ruta, Marcello (2009) Morphospace occupation of temnospondyl growth series: a geometric morphometric approach. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 33 (3). pp. 237-255. ISSN 0311-5518

Y

Young, Mark T. and Brusatte, Stephen L. and Ruta, Marcello and Andrade, Marco Brandalise de (2010) The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 158 (4). pp. 801-859. ISSN 0024-4082