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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
8149
World Ranking
3702
National Ranking
38

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Best Publications

  • Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Peter D. Ward;Jennifer Botha;Roger Buick;Michiel O. De Kock

  • Vertebrate extinction across Permian–Triassic boundary in Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Gregory J. Retallack;Roger M.H. Smith;Peter D. Ward

  • A review of the stratigraphy and sedimentary environments of the Karoo-aged basins of Southern Africa

    R.M.H. Smith;P.G. Eriksson;W.J. Botha

  • Pattern of vertebrate extinctions across an event bed at the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa

    Roger M.H. Smith;Peter D. Ward

  • Helical burrow casts of therapsid origin from the Beaufort Group (Permian) of South Africa

    Roger M.H. Smith

  • Anatomy of a mass extinction: Sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South Africa

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  • The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction

    Roger Smith;Jennifer Botha

  • Vertebrate Taphonomy of Late Permian Floodplain Deposits in the Southwestern Karoo Basin of South Africa

    Roger M. H. Smith

  • The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

    Sterling J. Nesbitt;Richard J. Butler;Martín D. Ezcurra;Martín D. Ezcurra;Paul M. Barrett

  • Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

    Christian A. Sidor;Daril A. Vilhena;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Adam K. Huttenlocker

  • Timing of mammal-like reptile extinctions across the Permian-Triassic boundary in South Africa

    Kenneth G. MacLeod;Roger M. H. Smith;Paul L. Koch;Peter D. Ward

  • A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia

    Richard J Butler;Roger M.H Smith;David B Norman

  • Flash-flood sediments and ichnofacies of the Late Pleistocene Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, Namibia

    R.M.H. Smith;T.R. Mason;J.D. Ward

  • Regional and global context of the Late Cenozoic Langebaanweg (LBW) palaeontological site: West Coast of South Africa

    David L. Roberts;Thalassa Matthews;Andrew I.R. Herries;Claire Boulter

  • Lystrosaurus species composition across the Permo-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa

    Jennifer Botha;Roger M. H. Smith

  • Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea

    Christian A. Sidor;F. Robin O'Keefe;Ross Damiani;J. Sébastien Steyer

  • The skull roof tracks the brain during the evolution and development of reptiles including birds

    Matteo Fabbri;Nicolás Mongiardino Koch;Adam C. Pritchard;Michael Hanson

  • The Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Lopingian), South Africa: A proposed biostratigraphy based on a new compilation of stratigraphic ranges

    Pia A. Viglietti;Roger M.H. Smith;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Christian F. Kammerer;Christian F. Kammerer

  • Changes in carbon isotope ratios in the late Permian recorded in therapsid tooth apatite

    J. F. Thackeray;N. J. van der Merwe;N. J. van der Merwe;J. A. Lee-Thorp;A. Sillen

  • The oldest cynodont: new clues on the origin and early diversification of the Cynodontia

    J. Botha;F. Abdala;R. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth D. Angielczyk
Kenneth D. Angielczyk Field Museum of Natural History
Bruce S. Rubidge
Bruce S. Rubidge University of the Witwatersrand
Christian A. Sidor
Christian A. Sidor University of Washington
Neil J. Tabor
Neil J. Tabor Southern Methodist University
Sterling J. Nesbitt
Sterling J. Nesbitt Virginia Tech
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Frédéric Fluteau
Frédéric Fluteau Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Martín D. Ezcurra
Martín D. Ezcurra University of Birmingham
Roger B. J. Benson
Roger B. J. Benson University of Oxford

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