Publications

DunneetalPalaeontology2020

Preprints

Paiva AL, Godoy PL, Dunne EM, Farnsworth A, Valdes PJ, Lunt DJ, Klein W, Langer, MC, & Hsiou AS. The Role of Climate on the Emergence of Giant Caimaninae from the Miocene Western Amazonian Region. Preprint available at SSRN. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4873418

Brocklehurst N, Allen BJ, & Dunne EM. Relative abundance distributions reveal constraints on tetrapod community diversity. EcoEvoRxiv DOI: 10.32942/X2ZS3C

Peer-reviewed publications

2024

Dunne EM, Chattopadhyay D, Dean CD, Dillon EM, Dowding EM, Godoy PL, Smith JA, & Raja NB. Data equity in paleobiology: Progress, challenges, and future outlook. (In press at Paleobiology)

Moreno R, Dunne EM, Mujal E, Farnsworth A, Valdes PJ, & Schoch RR. (2024) Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic. Palaeontology DOI: 10.1111/pala.12724

Arenas-Castro H, Berdejo-Espinola V, Chowdhury S, Rodríguez-Contreras A, James A, Raja NB, Dunne EM, Bertolino S, Emidio NB, Derez CM, Drobniak SM, Fulton GR, Henao-Diaz LF, Kaur A, Kim CJS, Lagisz M, Medina I, Mikula P, Narayan VP, O’Bryan CJ, Ying Oh RR, Ovsyanikova E, Pérez-Hämmerle KV, Pottier P, Powers JS, Rodriguez-Acevedo AJ, Rozak AH, Sena PHA, Sockhill NJ, Tedesco AM, Tiapa-Blanco F, Tsai JS, Villarreal-Rosas J, Wadgymar SM, Yamamichi M, & Amano T. (2024) Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies. Royl. Soc. Proc. B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2840 Coverage by Nature News

Schnetz L, Dunne EM, Feichtinger I, Butler RJ, Coates MI, Sansom IJ. (2024) The rise and diversification of Palaeozoic chondrichthyans is led by holocephalans. Paleobiology DOI: 10.1017/pab.2024.1

Lautenschlager S, Aston RF, Baron JL, Boyd JR, Bridger HWL, Carmona VET, Ducrey T, Eccles O, Gall M, Jones SA, Laker-McHugh H, Lawrenson DJ, Mascarenhas KJ, McSchnutz E, Quinn JD, Robson TE, Stöhr PW, Strahl EJ, Tokeley RR, Weston F, Wallace KJ, Whitehouse T, Bird CM, & Dunne EM (2024) Evolution of orbit size and estimated eye size and their implications for visual capabilities in dinosaurs and other archosaurs. J. Vert. Paleo. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2295518

2023

Smith JA, Raja NB, Clements T, Dimitrijević D, Dowding EM, Dunne EM, Gee BM, Godoy PL, Lombardi EM, Mulvey LPA, Nätscher PS, Reddin CJ, Shirley B, Warnock RCM, & Kocsis AT. (2023) Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: Capacity building for a big data future. Paleobiology. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2023.33

Dunne EM, Thompson SED, Butler RJ, Rosindell J, & Close RA. (2023) Early tetrapod diversification under neutral theory. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02128-3. Associated plain-language Research Briefing

Edgar KM, Haller L, Cashmore DD, Dunne EM & Butler RJ (2023) Stratigraphic and geographic distribution of dinosaur tracks in the UK. Journal of the Geological Society. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2023-003

Dillon EM*, Dunne EM*, Womack TM, Kouvari M, Larina E, Claytor JR, Ivkić A, Juhn M, Milla Carmona PS, Robson SV, Saha A, Villafaña JA, & Zill ME (2023) Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology. Paleobiology. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2023.3 (* joint lead authors). Explainer video

Dunne EM, Farnsworth A, Benson RJB, Godoy PL, Greene SE, Valdes PJ, Lunt DJ, & Butler RJ, (2023) Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.064 Selected media coverage: The Independent, Sky News

2022

Raja NB & Dunne EM (2022) Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery. In: Oosterman, N., Yates, D. (eds) Art Crime in Context. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14084-6_5. Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, vol 6. Springer

Stewens PP, Raja NB, Dunne EM (2022) The Return of Fossils Removed Under Colonial Rule. Santander Art and Culture Law Review (published by the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law). DOI: 10.4467/2450050XSNR.22.013.17026

Raja NB & Dunne EM. Publication pressure threatens the integrity of palaeontological research. Geological Curator. DOI: 10.31223/X5V32Z. Featured in Nature Index

S Henderson, EM Dunne, & S Giles (2022) Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0916.

Foffa D, Dunne EM, Nesbitt SJ, Butler RJ, Fraser NC, Brusatte SL, Farnsworth A, Lunt DJ, Valdes PJ, Walsh S & Barrett PM (2022) Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05284-x. Selected media coverage: The Guardian, National Geographic, New York Times

Dunne EM*, Raja NB*, Stewens PP, Zin Maung Maung Thein, & Khin Zaw (2022) Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity. Communications Biology. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03847-2 (* joint lead authors). Selected media coverage: Science, The Economist, Science Alert, phys.org

Cisneros JC, Raja NB, Ghilardi AM, Dunne EM, Pinheiro FL, Regalado Fernández OR, Sales MAF, Rodríguez-de la Rosa RA, Miranda-Martínez AY, González-Mora S, Bantim RAM, de Lima FJ and Pardo JD. (2022) Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Brazil and Mexico. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210898 9: 210898. Media coverage: Science, The Guardian, Folha de S.Paulo (Portuguese)

2021

Raja NB*, Dunne EM*, Matiwane A, Tasnuva MK, Nätscher PS, Ghilardi AM, & Chattopadhyay D. (2021) Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01608-8 (* joint lead authors). See also: Plain-language summaries in multiple languages Selected media coverage: Nature News, New York Times, Der Tagesspiegel, The Verge, The Wire, BBC Future, Discover Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic (in German)

Dunne EM, Farnsworth A, Greene SE, Lunt D, & Butler RJ. (2021) Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity. Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12514 Explainer: The Conversation

2020

Maidment SCR, Sennikov AG, Ezcurra MD, Dunne EM, Gower DJ, Hendrick B, Meade LE, Paschchenko DI, Raven TJ, & Butler RJ. (2020) The postcranial skeleton of the erythrosuchid archosauriform Garjainia prima from the Early Triassic of European Russia. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201089

Close RA, Benson RJBJ, Alroy J, Carrano MT, Cleary TJ, Dunne EM, Mannion PD, Uhen MD, & Butler RJ. (2020) The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0372

2019

Close RA, Benson RJB, Alroy J, Behrensmeyer AK, Benito J, Carrano MT, Cleary TJ, Dunne EM, Mannion PD, Uhen MD, & Butler RJ. (2019) Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0811-8 Explainers: Nature News & Views, The Conversation

Butler, RJ, Sennikov, AG, Dunne EM, Ezcurra, MD, Gower, DJ, Hendrick, B, Maidment, SCR, Meade, LE, & Raven TJ. (2019) Taxonomy and cranial anatomy of the erythrosuchids archosauriform Garjainia prima from the Early Triassic (Olenekian) of European Russia. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191289

2018

Brocklehurst N, Dunne EM, Cashmore DD, & Fröbisch J. (2018) Physical and environmental drivers of Paleozoic tetrapod dispersal across Pangaea. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07623-x

Dunne EM, Close RA, Button DJ, Brocklehurst N, Cashmore DD, Lloyd GT, & Butler RJ. (2018) Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the ‘Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2730 Explainer: The Conversation. Selected media coverage: Mail online, Seeker. Also featured in PBS Eons: When the Rainforests Collapsed

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