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Philip D. Mannion is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Paleontology and related subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Geometry and Topology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Philip D. Mannion has contributed papers to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Their notable recent publications include:

  • "Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem" (2021), PeerJ
  • "The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases" (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous Australian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on the skull and neck of early titanosaurs" (2020), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "Spatial sampling heterogeneity limits the detectability of deep time latitudinal biodiversity gradients" (2021), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Paul Upchurch
  • Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza
  • Stephen F. Poropat
  • David A. Elliott
  • Trish Sloan

Best Publications

  • Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Rosie N. Barnes;Octávio Mateus

  • The extinction of the dinosaurs

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Richard J. Butler;Paul M. Barrett;Matthew T. Carrano

  • Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time.

    Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Matthew T. Carrano;Paul M. Barrett

  • Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

    Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza;Alexander Farnsworth;Philip D. Mannion;Daniel J. Lunt

  • Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

    Philip D. Mannion;Roger B. J. Benson;Matthew T. Carrano;Jonathan P. Tennant

  • New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

    Stephen F. Poropat;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Scott A. Hocknull

  • Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria

    P. Upchurch;P. D. Mannion;R. B. J. Benson;R. J. Butler

  • Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution

    Philip D Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Daniela Schwarz;Oliver Wings

  • Biotic and environmental dynamics through the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover

    Jonathan P. Tennant;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Mark D. Sutton

  • Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm.

    Richard J. Butler;Roger B. J. Benson;Matthew T. Carrano;Philip D. Mannion

  • The completeness of the fossil record of mesozoic birds: implications for early avian evolution.

    Neil Brocklehurst;Paul Upchurch;Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Jingmai O'Connor

  • Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: Implications for Gondwanan titanosauriform dispersal

    Stephen F. Poropat;Stephen F. Poropat;Paul Upchurch;Philip D. Mannion;Scott A. Hocknull

  • Anatomy of the basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) Andesaurus delgadoi from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian–early Cenomanian) Río Limay Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina: implications for titanosaur systematics

    Philip D. Mannion;Jorge O. Calvo

  • Completeness metrics and the quality of the sauropodomorph fossil record through geological and historical time

    Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch

  • Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades

    Roger B.J. Benson;Roger B.J. Benson;Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Richard J. Butler;Paul Upchurch

  • Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction

    Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza;Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Daniel J. Lunt;Alex Farnsworth

  • The earliest known titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of Brachiosauridae

    Philip D. Mannion;Ronan Allain;Olivier Moine

  • A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Argyrosaurus superbus, with a description of a new titanosaur genus

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Alejandro Otero

  • A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs.

    Xing Xu;Paul Upchurch;Philip D. Mannion;Paul M. Barrett

  • Near-stasis in the long-term diversification of Mesozoic tetrapods

    Roger B. J. Benson;Richard J. Butler;John Alroy;Philip D. Mannion

  • A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Roger B. J. Benson;Paul Upchurch;Richard J. Butler

  • A rebbachisaurid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, England

    Philip D. Mannion

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Upchurch
Paul Upchurch University College London
Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Roger B. J. Benson
Roger B. J. Benson University of Oxford
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Peter A. Allison
Peter A. Allison Imperial College London
John Alroy
John Alroy Macquarie University
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Octávio Mateus
Octávio Mateus Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Daniel J. Lunt
Daniel J. Lunt University of Bristol

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