| Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution RB Sookias, RJ Butler, RBJ Benson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1736), 2180-2187, 2012 | 149 | 2012 |
| New clade of enigmatic early archosaurs yields insights into early pseudosuchian phylogeny and the biogeography of the archosaur radiation RJ Butler, C Sullivan, MD Ezcurra, J Liu, A Lecuona, RB Sookias BMC Evolutionary Biology 14 (1), 1-16, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| Unappreciated diversification of stem archosaurs during the Middle Triassic predated the dominance of dinosaurs C Foth, MD Ezcurra, RB Sookias, SL Brusatte, RJ Butler BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 (1), 1-10, 2016 | 66 | 2016 |
| New information on the braincase and inner ear of Euparkeria capensis Broom: implications for diapsid and archosaur evolution G Sobral, RB Sookias, BAS Bhullar, R Smith, RJ Butler, J Mueller Royal Society Open Science 3 (7), 160072, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Euparkeriidae RB Sookias, RJ Butler Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379 (1), 35-48, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Biology, not environment, drives major patterns in maximum tetrapod body size through time RB Sookias, RBJ Benson, RJ Butler Biology Letters 8 (4), 674-677, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| The craniomandibular anatomy of the early archosauriform Euparkeria capensis and the dawn of the archosaur skull RB Sookias, D Dilkes, G Sobral, RMH Smith, FP Wolvaardt, AB Arcucci, ... Royal Society Open Science 7 (7), 200116, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| The anatomy and phylogenetic position of the erythrosuchid archosauriform Guchengosuchus shiguaiensis from the earliest Middle Triassic of China RJ Butler, MD Ezcurra, J Liu, RB Sookias, C Sullivan PeerJ 7, e6435, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Systematics of putative euparkeriids (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Triassic of China RB Sookias, C Sullivan, J Liu, RJ Butler PeerJ 2, e658, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states RB Sookias, S Passmore, QD Atkinson Royal Society Open Science 5 (4), 171411, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| The relationships of the Euparkeriidae and the rise of Archosauria RB Sookias Royal Society Open Science 3 (3), 150674, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| The monophyly of Euparkeriidae (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) and the origins of Archosauria: a revision of Dorosuchus neoetus from the Mid‐Triassic of Russia RB Sookias, AG Sennikov, DJ Gower, RJ Butler Palaeontology 57 (6), 1177-1202, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Exploring the effects of character construction and choice, outgroups and analytical method on phylogenetic inference from discrete characters in extant crocodilians RB Sookias Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 (2), 670-699, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Rapid initial morphospace expansion and delayed morphological disparity peak in the first 100 million years of the archosauromorph evolutionary radiation. C Foth, RB Sookias, MD Ezcurra Frontiers in Earth Sciences 763, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Mesozoic fossil sustainability: synoptic case studies of resource management RB Sookias, GE Budd, BP Kear GFF 135 (1), 131-143, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
| Anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology of early archosaurs and their kin RB Sookias, RJ Butler, SJ Nesbitt, JB Desojo, RB Irmis | 8 | 2013 |
| Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the mandible of an enigmatic Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) tetrapod from Nova Scotia, and the lability of Meckelian jaw ossification RB Sookias, C Böhmer, JA Clack PloS one 9 (10), e109717, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| A new archosauriform species from the Panchet Formation of India and the diversification of Proterosuchidae after the end-Permian mass extinction MD Ezcurra, S Bandyopadhyay, DP Sengupta, K Sen, AG Sennikov, ... Royal Society Open Science 10 (10), 230387, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Redescription and Novel Information on the Cranium of the Triassic Archosauromorph Euparkeria capensis RB Sookias, D Dilkes, AB Arcucci, BA Bhullar JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 280, S221-S222, 2019 | | 2019 |
| The concept of homoiology and its potential application in palaeontological phylogenetics RB Sookias PaleorXiv, 2019 | | 2019 |
Richard J. ButlerProfessor of Palaeobiology, University of BirminghamVerified email at bham.ac.uk
