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Wu, Xiujuan; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Wu, Huiting; Zhang, Yang; Chen, Anfeng; Guo, Hongsong and Meng, Fanshuai (2025). Testing Bergmann's rule in marine invertebrates: Using global brachiopod data during the Permian glacial-interglacial transition. Global and Planetary Change, 246, article no. 104737.

Laboury, Antoine; Stubbs, Thomas; Wolniewicz, Andrzej S; Liu, Jun; Scheyer, Torsten M; Jones, Marc E H and Fischer, Valentin (2025). Contrasting macroevolutionary patterns in pelagic tetrapods across the Triassic–Jurassic transition. Evolution, 79(1) pp. 38–50.

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Chen, Anfeng; Zhang, Yichun; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Zhang, Yang; Wu, Huiting; Li, Yalin; Ma, Xingduo; Wang, Qian and Shi, Xiaoying (2024). Early Permian and Permian–Triassic boundary interval conodonts from the Central Qiangtang metamorphic belt, northern Tibet, and their paleobiogeographic and paleoclimatic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 654, article no. 112449.

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Xiumei, Lu; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Zhuo, De; Xu, Chunpeng and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2024). New Cretaceous snakeflies highlight the morphological disparity of Mesoraphidiidae and its response to the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 8(4), article no. 8.

Xue, Chunling; Yuan, Dong-xun; Chen, Yanlong; Stubbs, Thomas; Zhao, Yueli and Zhifei, Zhang (2024). Morphological innovation after mass extinction events in Permian and Early Triassic conodonts based on Polygnathacea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 642, article no. 112149.

Shipley, Amy E.; Elsler, Armin; Singh, Suresh A.; Stubbs, Thomas L. and Benton, Michael J. (2024). Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha. Royal Society Open Science, 11(2)

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Singh, Suresh A.; Elsler, Armin; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Rayfield, Emily J. and Benton, Michael J. (2024). Predatory synapsid ecomorphology signals growing dynamism of late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Communications Biology, 7, article no. 201.

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Guo, Zhen; Benton, Michael J.; Stubbs, Thomas L. and Chen, Zhong-Qiang (2024). Morphological innovation did not drive diversification in Mesozoic–Cenozoic brachiopods. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 pp. 1948–1958.

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Rawson, James R. G.; Deakin, William J.; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Smith, Thomas J.; Rayfield, Emily J. and Donoghue, Phillip C. J. (2024). Widespread convergence towards functional optimization in the lower jaws of crocodile-line archosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291, article no. 20240720.

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Laboury, Antoine; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Klein, Nicole; Stubbs, Thomas L. and Fischer, Valentin (2023). High phenotypic plasticity at the dawn of the eosauropterygian radiation. PeerJ, 11, article no. e15776.

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Liu, Qi-Ling; Cheng, Long; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Moon, Benjamin C.; Benton, Michael J.; Yan, Chun-Bo and Tian, Li (2023). Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia (Reptilia: Diapsida) revealed by a new basal pachypleurosaur from the Lower Triassic of China. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 23, article no. 44.

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Stubbs, Thomas L.; Pierce, Stephanie E.; Elsler, Armin; Anderson, Philip S. L.; Rayfield, Emily J. and Benton, Michael J. (2021). Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, article no. 20210069.

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