Michael Benton

Michael James Benton OBE FRS FRSE^[3][4] (d. 8 Nisan 1956^[1]), Britanyalı paleontolog ve Bristol Üniversitesi'nde omurgalı paleontolojisi profesörü.^[5][6][7] Yayınlanmış çalışmaları çoğunlukla Triyas sürüngenlerinin evrimi üzerine yoğunlaşmıştır ancak yok oluş ve fosil kayıtlarındaki faunal değişiklikler üzerinde de çalışmıştır.^[2][8][9]

Michael Benton
Michael Benton, Londra'daki Royal Society kabul gününde, 2014
Doğum	Michael James Benton 08 Nisan 1956 (69 yaşında)[1] İskoçya
Milliyet	Britanyalı
Eğitim	Robert Gordon's College
Ödüller	Lyell Medal (2005)
Resmî site	bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mike-j-benton
Kariyeri
Dalı	Paleobiyoloji Paleontoloji Makroevrim[2]

Yayınları

• Dinosaurs an A-Z Guide (1988, Kingfisher) 978-0862723859
• The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods (1998, ed. Volumes 1 and 2)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• Prehistoric Animals (1989, Kingfisher) 978-0862724580
• Vertebrate Palaeontology (4th edition, 2014, Wiley-Blackwell) 978-1118407554
• On the trail of the dinosaur (1989, Quarto Publishing) 0-517-67976-0
• The reign of the reptiles (1991)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• The rise of the mammals (1991)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• The fossil record 2 (1993, ed.)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Animal Fact Finder (1993)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• Fossil reptiles of Great Britain (1995, with P. S. Spencer)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• The Viking atlas of evolution (1997, with R. Osborne)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs (1997)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• Basic Palaeontology (1997, with D. A. T. Harper) 0-582-22857-3
• Walking with dinosaurs: the facts (2000) 0-563-53744-2
• The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia (2000, ed., with D. M. Unwin, M. A. Shishkin and E. N. Kurochkin)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• Permian and Triassic red beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain (2002, with E. Cook and P. J. Turner)^{[ISBN eksik]}
• When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time (1st edition, 2003; 2nd edition, 2008)^[10]
• Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain (2005, with L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant, and J. J. Hooker) 9781861074805
• Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record (2009, with David A.T Harper) 9781405141574
• The first four billion years Benton, Michael J. (2009). "Paleontology and the History of Life". Michael Ruse; Joseph Travis (Ed.). Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ss. 80-104. ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3.
• The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History, (2019) 978-0500052006