What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Paleontology
- Genus
- Ecology
Paleontology, Cretaceous, Ecology, Extinction event and Ornithischia are his primary areas of study.
His work carried out in the field of Paleontology brings together such families of science as Cartography and Archosauriformes.
His Cretaceous study combines topics in areas such as Paleoecology, Mesozoic and Sauropodomorpha.
The Ecology study combines topics in areas such as Geologic record and Tetrapod.
His Extinction event study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Facies and Early Triassic.
His Ornithischia research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Zoology, Hypsodont, Lycorhinus and Heterodontosauridae.
His most cited work include:
- The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs (206 citations)
- The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs (188 citations)
- Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates (156 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Richard J. Butler mostly deals with Paleontology, Ecology, Cretaceous, Taxon and Extinction event.
His work in Paleontology is not limited to one particular discipline; it also encompasses Archosauriformes.
His Ecology research integrates issues from Geologic record and Tetrapod.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Species richness and Macroevolution.
His studies deal with areas such as Autapomorphy, Clade and Cladistics as well as Taxon.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Ornithopod, Anatomy and Heterodontosauridae in addition to Ornithischia.
He most often published in these fields:
- Paleontology (59.69%)
- Ecology (16.33%)
- Cretaceous (15.82%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Paleontology (59.69%)
- Extinction event (14.29%)
- Ecology (16.33%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary areas of study are Paleontology, Extinction event, Ecology, Evolutionary biology and Taxon.
As part of his studies on Paleontology, Richard J. Butler often connects relevant areas like Sampling.
His work on Erythrosuchidae as part of general Extinction event study is frequently connected to Environmental science, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them.
Richard J. Butler has included themes like Mesozoic, Carboniferous rainforest collapse and Cretaceous in his Ecology study.
His research investigates the link between Evolutionary biology and topics such as Range that cross with problems in Phylogenetic comparative methods, Crocodylomorpha, Fitness landscape, Crocodyliformes and Extinction.
His biological study deals with issues like Pseudosuchia, which deal with fields such as Cladistics, Monophyly, Clade, Redondasaurus and Archosaur.
Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (38 citations)
- How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling-standardised discovery curves (29 citations)
- Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local community scale (23 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Genus
- Paleontology
- Ecology
His main research concerns Evolutionary biology, Paleontology, Taxon, Archosauromorpha and Fossil Record.
His Paleontology and Cynognathus Assemblage Zone and Dicynodont investigations all form part of his Paleontology research activities.
Richard J. Butler interconnects Clade, Monophyly, Cladistics and Pseudosuchia in the investigation of issues within Taxon.
His Archosauromorpha study incorporates themes from Osteology, Skull, Anatomy and Erythrosuchidae, Extinction event.
His work focuses on many connections between Extinction event and other disciplines, such as Biodiversity, that overlap with his field of interest in Phanerozoic.
His studies in Ecology integrate themes in fields like Cretaceous and Paleogene.
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