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Philip D. Mannion
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 94
Citations - 4258
Philip D. Mannion is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Cretaceous. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 79 publications receiving 3397 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip D. Mannion include Imperial College London & Museum für Naturkunde.
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Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage.
Roger B. J. Benson,Nicolás E. Campione,Matthew T. Carrano,Philip D. Mannion,Corwin Sullivan,Paul Upchurch,David C. Evans +6 more
TL;DR: Early dinosaurs showed rapid evolutionary rates, which were sustained on the line leading to birds, and maintenance of evolvability in key lineages might explain the uneven distribution of trait diversity among groups of animal species.
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The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time
TL;DR: Deep-time studies indicate that a tropical peak and poleward decline in species diversity has not been a persistent pattern throughout the Phanerozoic, but is restricted to intervals of the Palaeozoic and the past 30 million years.
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Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms
TL;DR: The results support the generic separation of the contemporaneous taxa Brachiosaurus, Giraffatitan, and Lusotitan, with the latter recovered as either a brachiosaurid or the sister taxon to Titanosauriformes.
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Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time.
TL;DR: Despite its distortion by sampling biases, much of sauropodomorph palaeobiodiversity can be interpreted as a reflection of genuine biological signals, and fluctuations in sea level may account for some of these diversity patterns.
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Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians
Philip D. Mannion,Roger B. J. Benson,Matthew T. Carrano,Jonathan P. Tennant,Jack Judd,Richard J. Butler +5 more
TL;DR: The fossil record of crocodylians and their relatives (pseudosuchians) reveals a rich evolutionary history, prompting questions about causes of long-term decline to their present-day low biodiversity, and the 'balancing forces' of anthropogenic environmental degradation complicate future predictions.