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Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
Ruta, Marcello and Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. ISSN 0031-0239
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
Ruta, Marcello and Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. ISSN 0031-0239
Ruta, Marcello, Angielczyk, Kenneth D., Fröbisch, Jörg and Benton, Michael J. (2013) Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452
Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., 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
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
Clack, J.A., Bennett, C.A., Carpenter, D.K., Davies, S.J., Fraser, N.C., Kearsey, T.J., Marshall, J.E.A., Millward, D., Otoo, B.K.A., Reeves, E.J., Ross, A.J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K.Z., Smithson, T.R. and Walsh, S.A. (2017) Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (1). p. 2. ISSN 2397-334X
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
Sakamoto, Manabu (2022) Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles. PeerJ, 10 . e13731. ISSN 2167-8359
Deeming, Charles and Birchard, Geoffrey (2009) Why were extinct gigantic birds so small? Avian Biology Research, 1 (4). pp. 187-194. ISSN 1758-1559
Sakamoto, Manabu (2022) Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles. PeerJ, 10 . e13731. ISSN 2167-8359
Ruta, Marcello and Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. 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
Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., 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
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
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
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 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
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
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
Ruxton, Graeme D., Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Deeming, Charles (2014) Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology, 40 (3). pp. 323-330. ISSN 0094-8373
Deeming, Charles and Mayr, Gerald (2018) Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their egg. Journal of Evolutionary Biology . ISSN 1010-061X
Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., 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
Beznosov, Pavel A., Clack, Jennifer A., Luksevics, Ervins, Ruta, Marcello and Ahlberg, Per E. (2019) Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae. Nature, 574 (7779). pp. 527-531. ISSN 0028-0836
Clack, J.A., Bennett, C.A., Carpenter, D.K., Davies, S.J., Fraser, N.C., Kearsey, T.J., Marshall, J.E.A., Millward, D., Otoo, B.K.A., Reeves, E.J., Ross, A.J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K.Z., Smithson, T.R. and Walsh, S.A. (2017) Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (1). p. 2. ISSN 2397-334X
Klembara, Jozef, Hain, Miroslav, Ruta, Marcello, Berman, David S, Pierce, Stephanie E. and Henrici, Amy C. (2020) Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group. Palaeontology, 63 (1). pp. 131-154. ISSN 0031-0239
Klembara, Jozef, Ruta, Marcello, Hain, Miroslav and Berman, David S (2021) Braincase and Inner Ear Anatomy of the Late Carboniferous Tetrapod Limnoscelis dynatis (Diadectomorpha) Revealed by High-Resolution X-ray Microcomputed Tomography. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . ISSN 2296-701X
Ruta, Marcello, Angielczyk, Kenneth D., Fröbisch, Jörg and Benton, Michael J. (2013) Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452
Ruxton, Graeme D., Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Deeming, Charles (2014) Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology, 40 (3). pp. 323-330. ISSN 0094-8373
Li, Yimeng, Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2020) Craniodental and Postcranial Characters of Non-Avian Dinosauria Often Imply Different Trees. Systematic Biology, 69 (4). pp. 638-659. ISSN 1063-5157
Sakamoto, Manabu (2022) Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles. PeerJ, 10 . e13731. ISSN 2167-8359
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
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
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
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
Clack, Jennifer A., Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R., Marshall, John E. A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Smithson, Keturah Z. (2019) Acherontiscus caledoniae, the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (5). p. 182087. ISSN 2054-5703
Clack, Jennifer A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Ruta, Marcello (2022) A new Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hind limbs. Communications Biology, 5 (1). ISSN 2399-3642
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Lu, Junchang, Unwin, David M., Deeming, D. Charles, Jin, Xingsheng, Liu, Yongqing and Ji, Qiang (2011) An egg-adult association, gender, and reproduction in pterosaurs. Science, 331 (6015). pp. 321-324. ISSN 0193-4511
Ruxton, Graeme D., Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Deeming, Charles (2014) Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology, 40 (3). pp. 323-330. ISSN 0094-8373
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
Deeming, Charles and Mayr, Gerald (2018) Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their egg. Journal of Evolutionary Biology . ISSN 1010-061X
Deeming, Charles (2006) Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Palaeontology, 49 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0031-0239
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
Hetherington, Alexander J., Sherratt, Emma, Ruta, Marcello, Wilkinson, Mark, Deline, Bradley and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? Palaeontology, 58 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0031-0239
Venditti, Chris, Baker, Joanna, Benton, Michael, Meade, Andrew and Humphries, Stuart (2020) 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature, 587 (7832). pp. 83-86. ISSN 0028-0836
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
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
Deeming, Charles (2017) How pterosaurs bred. Science, 358 (6367). pp. 1124-1125. ISSN 0036-8075
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Klembara, Jozef, Clack, Jennifer A., Milner, Andrew R. and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (4). pp. 774-792. ISSN 0272-4634
Hetherington, Alexander J., Sherratt, Emma, Ruta, Marcello, Wilkinson, Mark, Deline, Bradley and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? Palaeontology, 58 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0031-0239
Thorne, Philippa M., 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
Ruxton, Graeme D., Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Deeming, Charles (2014) Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology, 40 (3). pp. 323-330. ISSN 0094-8373
Klembara, Jozef, Clack, Jennifer A., Milner, Andrew R. and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (4). pp. 774-792. ISSN 0272-4634
Ruxton, Graeme D., Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Deeming, Charles (2014) Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology, 40 (3). pp. 323-330. ISSN 0094-8373
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
Hetherington, Alexander J., Sherratt, Emma, Ruta, Marcello, Wilkinson, Mark, Deline, Bradley and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? Palaeontology, 58 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0031-0239
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
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. (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 Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. ISSN 0031-0239
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Deeming, Charles and Birchard, Geoffrey (2009) Why were extinct gigantic birds so small? Avian Biology Research, 1 (4). pp. 187-194. ISSN 1758-1559
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
Deeming, Charles and Mayr, Gerald (2018) Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their egg. Journal of Evolutionary Biology . ISSN 1010-061X
Ruta, Marcello, Ahlberg, Per E. and Smithson, Timothy R. (2019) Fossils, Function and Phylogeny: Papers on Early Vertebrate Evolution in Honour of Professor Jennifer A. Clack. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). The RSE Scotland Foundation. ISBN UNSPECIFIED
Deeming, Charles (2006) Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Palaeontology, 49 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0031-0239
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. ISSN 0031-0239
Lu, Junchang, Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu, Deeming, Charles and Liu, Yongqing (2015) Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China. Geosciences Journal, 19 (2). pp. 273-280. ISSN 1226-4806
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. ISSN 0031-0239
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
Ferron, Humberto G., Greenwood, Jenny M., Deline, Bradley, Martinez-Perez, Carlos, Botella, Hector, Sansom, Robert S., Ruta, Marcello and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2020) Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata). Palaeontology . ISSN 0031-0239
Venditti, Chris, Baker, Joanna, Benton, Michael, Meade, Andrew and Humphries, Stuart (2020) 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature, 587 (7832). pp. 83-86. ISSN 0028-0836
Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., 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
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
Ruta, Marcello, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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
Deeming, Charles and Mayr, Gerald (2018) Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their egg. Journal of Evolutionary Biology . ISSN 1010-061X
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. ISSN 0031-0239
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
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
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, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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, Angielczyk, Kenneth D., Fröbisch, Jörg and Benton, Michael J. (2013) Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452
Sakamoto, Manabu (2022) Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles. PeerJ, 10 . e13731. ISSN 2167-8359
Sakamoto, Manabu (2022) Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles. PeerJ, 10 . e13731. ISSN 2167-8359
Sakamoto, Manabu (2022) Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles. PeerJ, 10 . e13731. ISSN 2167-8359
Ruta, Marcello and Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. ISSN 0031-0239
Deeming, Charles (2006) Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Palaeontology, 49 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0031-0239
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., 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
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
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
Lu, Junchang, Unwin, David M., Deeming, D. Charles, Jin, Xingsheng, Liu, Yongqing and Ji, Qiang (2011) An egg-adult association, gender, and reproduction in pterosaurs. Science, 331 (6015). pp. 321-324. ISSN 0193-4511
Sakamoto, Manabu (2021) Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions. Palaeontology, 64 (5). pp. 743-753. ISSN 0031-0239
Deeming, Charles (2017) How pterosaurs bred. Science, 358 (6367). pp. 1124-1125. ISSN 0036-8075
Deeming, Charles and Birchard, Geoffrey (2009) Why were extinct gigantic birds so small? Avian Biology Research, 1 (4). pp. 187-194. ISSN 1758-1559
Lu, Junchang, Unwin, David M., Deeming, D. Charles, Jin, Xingsheng, Liu, Yongqing and Ji, Qiang (2011) An egg-adult association, gender, and reproduction in pterosaurs. Science, 331 (6015). pp. 321-324. ISSN 0193-4511
Beznosov, Pavel A., Clack, Jennifer A., Luksevics, Ervins, Ruta, Marcello and Ahlberg, Per E. (2019) Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae. Nature, 574 (7779). pp. 527-531. ISSN 0028-0836
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Ruxton, Graeme D., Birchard, Geoffrey F. and Deeming, Charles (2014) Incubation time as an important influence on egg production and distribution into clutches for sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology, 40 (3). pp. 323-330. ISSN 0094-8373
Klembara, Jozef, Hain, Miroslav, Ruta, Marcello, Berman, David S, Pierce, Stephanie E. and Henrici, Amy C. (2020) Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group. Palaeontology, 63 (1). pp. 131-154. ISSN 0031-0239
Ruta, Marcello and Theron, Johannes (1997) Two Devonian mitrates from South Africa. Palaeontology, 40 (1). pp. 201-243. ISSN 0031-0239
Penrice, Samantha and Deeming, Charles (2018) Morphometrics of feeding anatomy in stereospondyl amphibians. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, 51 . pp. 131-140. ISSN 2205-8877
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
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
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 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 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
Witzmann, Florian, 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
Deeming, Charles and Birchard, Geoffrey (2009) Why were extinct gigantic birds so small? Avian Biology Research, 1 (4). pp. 187-194. ISSN 1758-1559
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
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
Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello, 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
Gu, Jun-Jie, Montealegre-Z, Fernando, Robert, Daniel, Engel, Michael S., 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
Penrice, Samantha and Deeming, Charles (2018) Morphometrics of feeding anatomy in stereospondyl amphibians. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, 51 . pp. 131-140. ISSN 2205-8877
Clack, J.A., Bennett, C.A., Carpenter, D.K., Davies, S.J., Fraser, N.C., Kearsey, T.J., Marshall, J.E.A., Millward, D., Otoo, B.K.A., Reeves, E.J., Ross, A.J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K.Z., Smithson, T.R. and Walsh, S.A. (2017) Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (1). p. 2. ISSN 2397-334X
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
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, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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 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
Deeming, Charles (2006) Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Palaeontology, 49 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0031-0239
Ivanov, Martin, Ruta, Marcello, Klembara, Jozef and Böhme, Madelaine (2018) A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . ISSN 1477-2019
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
Sakamoto, Manabu, Ruta, Marcello and Venditti, Chris (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452
Clack, Jennifer A., Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R., Marshall, John E. A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Smithson, Keturah Z. (2019) Acherontiscus caledoniae, the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (5). p. 182087. ISSN 2054-5703
Klembara, Jozef, Hain, Miroslav, Ruta, Marcello, Berman, David S, Pierce, Stephanie E. and Henrici, Amy C. (2020) Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group. Palaeontology, 63 (1). pp. 131-154. ISSN 0031-0239
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Ruta, Marcello, Krieger, Jonathan, Angieczyk, Kenneth D. and Wiils, Matthew A. (2019) The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). p. 351. ISSN TRE-2018-0013.R1
Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
Sakamoto, Manabu, Ruta, Marcello and Venditti, Chris (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452
Witzmann, Florian and Ruta, Marcello (2019) Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). pp. 333-350. ISSN 1755-6910
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
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
Clack, Jennifer A., Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R., Marshall, John E. A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Smithson, Keturah Z. (2019) Acherontiscus caledoniae, the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (5). p. 182087. ISSN 2054-5703
Clack, Jennifer A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Ruta, Marcello (2022) A new Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hind limbs. Communications Biology, 5 (1). ISSN 2399-3642
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
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
Gu, Jun-Jie, Montealegre-Z, Fernando, Robert, Daniel, Engel, Michael S., 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
Anderson, Philip S. L., Friedman, Matt and Ruta, Marcello (2013) Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 1540-7063
Gu, Jun-Jie, Montealegre-Z, Fernando, Robert, Daniel, Engel, Michael S., 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
Birchard, Geoffrey F., 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
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
Sakamoto, Manabu (2021) Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions. Palaeontology, 64 (5). pp. 743-753. ISSN 0031-0239
Sakamoto, Manabu, Ruta, Marcello and Venditti, Chris (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452
Lu, Junchang, Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu, Deeming, Charles and Liu, Yongqing (2015) Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China. Geosciences Journal, 19 (2). pp. 273-280. ISSN 1226-4806
Pereira, Bruno Claro, Benton, Michael J., Ruta, Marcello and Mateus, Octavio (2015) Mesozoic echinoid diversity in Portugal: investigating fossil record quality and environmental constraints on a regional scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424 . pp. 132-146. ISSN 0031-0182
Xue, Jinzhuang, Huang, Pu, Ruta, Marcello, Benton, Michael J., Hao, Shougang, Xiong, Conghui, Cascales-Minana, Borjas, Wang, Qi and Liu, Le (2015) Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148 . pp. 77-93. ISSN 0012-8252
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
Ruta, Marcello, Angielczyk, Kenneth D., Fröbisch, Jörg and Benton, Michael J. (2013) Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452
Gu, Jun-Jie, Montealegre-Z, Fernando, Robert, Daniel, Engel, Michael S., 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
Gu, Jun-Jie, Montealegre-Z, Fernando, Robert, Daniel, Engel, Michael S., 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
Ferron, Humberto G., Greenwood, Jenny M., Deline, Bradley, Martinez-Perez, Carlos, Botella, Hector, Sansom, Robert S., Ruta, Marcello and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2020) Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata). Palaeontology . 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 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, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
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
Thorne, Philippa M., 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
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
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
Clack, Jennifer A., Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R., Marshall, John E. A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Smithson, Keturah Z. (2019) Acherontiscus caledoniae, the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (5). p. 182087. ISSN 2054-5703
Venditti, Chris, Baker, Joanna, Benton, Michael, Meade, Andrew and Humphries, Stuart (2020) 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature, 587 (7832). pp. 83-86. ISSN 0028-0836
Klembara, Jozef, Ruta, Marcello, Hain, Miroslav and Berman, David S (2021) Braincase and Inner Ear Anatomy of the Late Carboniferous Tetrapod Limnoscelis dynatis (Diadectomorpha) Revealed by High-Resolution X-ray Microcomputed Tomography. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . ISSN 2296-701X
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Hetherington, Alexander J., Sherratt, Emma, Ruta, Marcello, Wilkinson, Mark, Deline, Bradley and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? Palaeontology, 58 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0031-0239
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. ISSN 0031-0239
Lu, Junchang, Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu, Deeming, Charles and Liu, Yongqing (2015) Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China. Geosciences Journal, 19 (2). pp. 273-280. ISSN 1226-4806
Ruta, Marcello, Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Mitchell, Stephen A. and Benton, Michael J. (2013) The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1769). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452
Beznosov, Pavel A., Clack, Jennifer A., Luksevics, Ervins, Ruta, Marcello and Ahlberg, Per E. (2019) Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae. Nature, 574 (7779). pp. 527-531. ISSN 0028-0836
Coates, Michael I., 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
Lu, Junchang, Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu, Deeming, Charles and Liu, Yongqing (2015) Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China. Geosciences Journal, 19 (2). pp. 273-280. ISSN 1226-4806
Birchard, Geoffrey F., 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
Deeming, Charles (2006) Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Palaeontology, 49 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0031-0239
Sakamoto, Manabu (2021) Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions. Palaeontology, 64 (5). pp. 743-753. ISSN 0031-0239
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
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
Ferron, Humberto G., Greenwood, Jenny M., Deline, Bradley, Martinez-Perez, Carlos, Botella, Hector, Sansom, Robert S., Ruta, Marcello and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2020) Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata). Palaeontology . ISSN 0031-0239
Hetherington, Alexander J., Sherratt, Emma, Ruta, Marcello, Wilkinson, Mark, Deline, Bradley and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? Palaeontology, 58 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0031-0239
Prentice, Katherine C., 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
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, Angielczyk, Kenneth D., Fröbisch, Jörg and Benton, Michael J. (2013) Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452
Ruta, Marcello, Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Mitchell, Stephen A. and Benton, Michael J. (2013) The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1769). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452
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
Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., 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
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
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
Clack, J.A., Bennett, C.A., Carpenter, D.K., Davies, S.J., Fraser, N.C., Kearsey, T.J., Marshall, J.E.A., Millward, D., Otoo, B.K.A., Reeves, E.J., Ross, A.J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K.Z., Smithson, T.R. and Walsh, S.A. (2017) Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (1). p. 2. ISSN 2397-334X
Prentice, Katherine C., 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
Ruta, Marcello, Angielczyk, Kenneth D., Fröbisch, Jörg and Benton, Michael J. (2013) Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452
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, Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Mitchell, Stephen A. and Benton, Michael J. (2013) The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1769). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452
Ruta, Marcello, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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
Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., 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
Clack, Jennifer A., Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R., Marshall, John E. A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Smithson, Keturah Z. (2019) Acherontiscus caledoniae, the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (5). p. 182087. ISSN 2054-5703
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
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., 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
Unwin, David and Deeming, Charles (2019) Pre-natal developmental patterns and their implications for super-precocial flight ability in pterosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (201904). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8452
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
Ruta, Marcello, Krieger, Jonathan, Angieczyk, Kenneth D. and Wiils, Matthew A. (2019) The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). p. 351. ISSN TRE-2018-0013.R1
Unwin, David and Deeming, Charles (2019) Pre-natal developmental patterns and their implications for super-precocial flight ability in pterosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (201904). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8452
Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Klembara, Jozef, Ruta, Marcello, Hain, Miroslav and Berman, David S (2021) Braincase and Inner Ear Anatomy of the Late Carboniferous Tetrapod Limnoscelis dynatis (Diadectomorpha) Revealed by High-Resolution X-ray Microcomputed Tomography. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . ISSN 2296-701X
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. 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
Sakamoto, Manabu, Ruta, Marcello and Venditti, Chris (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
Ruta, Marcello, Krieger, Jonathan, Angieczyk, Kenneth D. and Wiils, Matthew A. (2019) The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). p. 351. ISSN TRE-2018-0013.R1
Brocklehurst, Neil, Ruta, Marcello, Müller, Johannes and Fröbisch, Jörg (2015) Elevated extinction rates as a trigger for diversification rate shifts: early amniotes as a case study. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). ISSN 2045-2322
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, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
Penrice, Samantha and Deeming, Charles (2018) Morphometrics of feeding anatomy in stereospondyl amphibians. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, 51 . pp. 131-140. ISSN 2205-8877
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
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
Anderson, Philip S. L., Friedman, Matt and Ruta, Marcello (2013) Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 1540-7063
Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. ISSN 0031-0239
Klembara, Jozef, Hain, Miroslav, Ruta, Marcello, Berman, David S, Pierce, Stephanie E. and Henrici, Amy C. (2020) Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group. Palaeontology, 63 (1). pp. 131-154. ISSN 0031-0239
Bernard, Emma L., Ruta, Marcello, 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
Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., 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
Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., 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
Ferron, Humberto G., Greenwood, Jenny M., Deline, Bradley, Martinez-Perez, Carlos, Botella, Hector, Sansom, Robert S., Ruta, Marcello and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2020) Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata). Palaeontology . ISSN 0031-0239
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
Witzmann, Florian, 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
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 (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 Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Witzmann, Florian, 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
Ruta, Marcello, Krieger, Jonathan, Angieczyk, Kenneth D. and Wiils, Matthew A. (2019) The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). p. 351. ISSN TRE-2018-0013.R1
Birchard, Geoffrey F., 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
Klembara, Jozef, Hain, Miroslav, Ruta, Marcello, Berman, David S, Pierce, Stephanie E. and Henrici, Amy C. (2020) Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group. Palaeontology, 63 (1). pp. 131-154. ISSN 0031-0239
Klembara, Jozef, Ruta, Marcello, Hain, Miroslav and Berman, David S (2021) Braincase and Inner Ear Anatomy of the Late Carboniferous Tetrapod Limnoscelis dynatis (Diadectomorpha) Revealed by High-Resolution X-ray Microcomputed Tomography. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . ISSN 2296-701X
Witzmann, Florian and Ruta, Marcello (2019) Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). pp. 333-350. ISSN 1755-6910
Witzmann, Florian, 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
Ruta, Marcello, Krieger, Jonathan, Angieczyk, Kenneth D. and Wiils, Matthew A. (2019) The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). p. 351. ISSN TRE-2018-0013.R1
Clack, Jennifer A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Ruta, Marcello (2022) A new Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hind limbs. Communications Biology, 5 (1). ISSN 2399-3642
Coates, Michael I., 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
Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Ruta, Marcello, Krieger, Jonathan, Angieczyk, Kenneth D. and Wiils, Matthew A. (2019) The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). p. 351. ISSN TRE-2018-0013.R1
Clack, Jennifer A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Ruta, Marcello (2022) A new Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hind limbs. Communications Biology, 5 (1). ISSN 2399-3642
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
Beznosov, Pavel A., Clack, Jennifer A., Luksevics, Ervins, Ruta, Marcello and Ahlberg, Per E. (2019) Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae. Nature, 574 (7779). pp. 527-531. ISSN 0028-0836
Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
Unwin, David and Deeming, Charles (2019) Pre-natal developmental patterns and their implications for super-precocial flight ability in pterosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (201904). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8452
Ivanov, Martin, Ruta, Marcello, Klembara, Jozef and Böhme, Madelaine (2018) A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . ISSN 1477-2019
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
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
Thorne, Philippa M., 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
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
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
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
Ferron, Humberto G., Greenwood, Jenny M., Deline, Bradley, Martinez-Perez, Carlos, Botella, Hector, Sansom, Robert S., Ruta, Marcello and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2020) Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata). Palaeontology . ISSN 0031-0239
Hetherington, Alexander J., Sherratt, Emma, Ruta, Marcello, Wilkinson, Mark, Deline, Bradley and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2015) Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? Palaeontology, 58 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0031-0239
Prentice, Katherine C., 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
Ruta, Marcello, Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Mitchell, Stephen A. and Benton, Michael J. (2013) The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1769). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452
Klembara, Jozef, Clack, Jennifer A., Milner, Andrew R. and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (4). pp. 774-792. ISSN 0272-4634
Witzmann, Florian, 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
Witzmann, Florian and Ruta, Marcello (2019) Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). pp. 333-350. ISSN 1755-6910
Klembara, Jozef, Hain, Miroslav, Ruta, Marcello, Berman, David S, Pierce, Stephanie E. and Henrici, Amy C. (2020) Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high‐resolution x‐ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group. Palaeontology, 63 (1). pp. 131-154. ISSN 0031-0239
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, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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 (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
Ivanov, Martin, Ruta, Marcello, Klembara, Jozef and Böhme, Madelaine (2018) A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . ISSN 1477-2019
Beznosov, Pavel A., Clack, Jennifer A., Luksevics, Ervins, Ruta, Marcello and Ahlberg, Per E. (2019) Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae. Nature, 574 (7779). pp. 527-531. ISSN 0028-0836
Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
Coates, Michael I., 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
Birchard, Geoffrey F., 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
Lu, Junchang, Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu, Deeming, Charles and Liu, Yongqing (2015) Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China. Geosciences Journal, 19 (2). pp. 273-280. ISSN 1226-4806
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Li, Yimeng, Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2020) Craniodental and Postcranial Characters of Non-Avian Dinosauria Often Imply Different Trees. Systematic Biology, 69 (4). pp. 638-659. ISSN 1063-5157
Sakamoto, Manabu (2021) Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions. Palaeontology, 64 (5). pp. 743-753. ISSN 0031-0239
Sakamoto, Manabu, Ruta, Marcello and Venditti, Chris (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452
Sakamoto, Manabu (2021) Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions. Palaeontology, 64 (5). pp. 743-753. ISSN 0031-0239
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
Anderson, Philip S. L., Friedman, Matt and Ruta, Marcello (2013) Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 1540-7063
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
Clack, Jennifer A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Ruta, Marcello (2022) A new Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hind limbs. Communications Biology, 5 (1). ISSN 2399-3642
Coates, Michael I., 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
Ivanov, Martin, Ruta, Marcello, Klembara, Jozef and Böhme, Madelaine (2018) A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . ISSN 1477-2019
Klembara, Jozef, Ruta, Marcello, Hain, Miroslav and Berman, David S (2021) Braincase and Inner Ear Anatomy of the Late Carboniferous Tetrapod Limnoscelis dynatis (Diadectomorpha) Revealed by High-Resolution X-ray Microcomputed Tomography. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . ISSN 2296-701X
Neenan, James M., Ruta, Marcello, Clack, Jennifer A. and Rayfield, Emily J. (2014) Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281 (1781). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436
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, Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Mitchell, Stephen A. and Benton, Michael J. (2013) The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1769). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452
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
Thorne, Philippa M., 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
Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L., 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
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
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
Prentice, Katherine C., 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
Unwin, David and Deeming, Charles (2019) Pre-natal developmental patterns and their implications for super-precocial flight ability in pterosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (201904). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8452
Prentice, Katherine C., 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
Anderson, Philip S. L., Friedman, Matt and Ruta, Marcello (2013) Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 1540-7063
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
Sakamoto, Manabu, Ruta, Marcello and Venditti, Chris (2019) Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1894). p. 20181932. ISSN 0962-8452
Ruta, Marcello, Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Mitchell, Stephen A. and Benton, Michael J. (2013) The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1769). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452
Klembara, Jozef, Clack, Jennifer A., Milner, Andrew R. and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (4). pp. 774-792. ISSN 0272-4634
Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
Prentice, Katherine C., 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
Sakamoto, Manabu (2021) Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions. Palaeontology, 64 (5). pp. 743-753. ISSN 0031-0239
O Gogain, A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Carpenter, D. K., Miller, R. F., Benton, M. J., Pufahl, P. K., Ruta, M., Davies, T. G., Hinds, S. J. and Stimson, M. R. (2016) Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity gradient in the Pennsylvanian (early Moscovian) Minto Formation of New Brunswick, Canada, and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeontology, 59 (5). pp. 689-724. ISSN 0031-0239
Birchard, Geoffrey F., 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
Lu, Junchang, Unwin, David M., Deeming, D. Charles, Jin, Xingsheng, Liu, Yongqing and Ji, Qiang (2011) An egg-adult association, gender, and reproduction in pterosaurs. Science, 331 (6015). pp. 321-324. ISSN 0193-4511
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
Witzmann, Florian and Ruta, Marcello (2019) Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). pp. 333-350. ISSN 1755-6910
Beznosov, Pavel A., Clack, Jennifer A., Luksevics, Ervins, Ruta, Marcello and Ahlberg, Per E. (2019) Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae. Nature, 574 (7779). pp. 527-531. ISSN 0028-0836
Witzmann, Florian and Ruta, Marcello (2019) Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). pp. 333-350. ISSN 1755-6910
Ivanov, Martin, Ruta, Marcello, Klembara, Jozef and Böhme, Madelaine (2018) A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . ISSN 1477-2019
Klembara, Jozef, Clack, Jennifer A., Milner, Andrew R. and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (4). pp. 774-792. ISSN 0272-4634
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, Milner, Andrew R. and Coates, Michael I. (2001) The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Societ y of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92 (3). pp. 229-261. ISSN 1755-6910
Witzmann, Florian, 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
Witzmann, Florian and Ruta, Marcello (2019) Evolutionary changes in the orbits and palatal openings of early tetrapods, with emphasis on temnospondyls. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109 (1-2). pp. 333-350. ISSN 1755-6910
Klembara, Jozef, Clack, Jennifer A., Milner, Andrew R. and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (4). pp. 774-792. ISSN 0272-4634
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Anderson, Philip S. L., Friedman, Matt and Ruta, Marcello (2013) Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 1540-7063
Clack, Jennifer A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Ruta, Marcello (2022) A new Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hind limbs. Communications Biology, 5 (1). ISSN 2399-3642
Anderson, Philip S. L., Friedman, Matt and Ruta, Marcello (2013) Late to the table: diversification of tetrapod mandibular biomechanics lagged behind the evolution of terrestriality. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53 (2). pp. 197-208. ISSN 1540-7063
Clack, J.A., Bennett, C.A., Carpenter, D.K., Davies, S.J., Fraser, N.C., Kearsey, T.J., Marshall, J.E.A., Millward, D., Otoo, B.K.A., Reeves, E.J., Ross, A.J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K.Z., Smithson, T.R. and Walsh, S.A. (2017) Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (1). p. 2. ISSN 2397-334X
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
Ruta, Marcello and Wills, Matthew A. (2016) Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 0031-0239
Botha-Brink, Jennifer, Codron, Daryl, Huttenlocker, Adam K., Angielczyk, Kenneth D. and Ruta, Marcello (2016) Breeding young as a survival strategy during earth’s greatest mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 6 (24053). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322
Deeming, D. Charles and Ruta, Marcello (2014) Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science . ISSN 2054-5703
Ruta, Marcello, Coates, Michael I. and Quicke, Donald L. J. (2003) Early tetrapod relationships revisited. Biological Reviews, 78 (2). pp. 251-345. ISSN 1464-7931
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, Cisneros, Juan C., Liebrecht, Torsten, 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
Coates, Michael I., 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
Deeming, Charles (2006) Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Palaeontology, 49 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0031-0239
Clack, Jennifer A., Ruta, Marcello, Milner, Andrew R., Marshall, John E. A., Smithson, Timothy R. and Smithson, Keturah Z. (2019) Acherontiscus caledoniae, the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (5). p. 182087. ISSN 2054-5703