We group the projects by the staff supervisor in the Department, although many
are led primarily by one of the research fellows or other researchers.
Bristol-based supervisors are marked with an asterisk (*).
Full details may be read here.
- Testing the dinosaur decline hypothesis
Supervisors: Graeme Lloyd (Oxford), Matt Carrano (Smithsonian) and Mike Benton*
- Hybodontiform extinction - a gradual process or rapid decline?
Supervisors: Stefanie Klug* and Mike Benton*
- What do we really know about dinosaur evolution?: the fossil record of British Mesozoic tetrapods
Supervisors: Alex Dunhill*, Mike Benton*, and Andrew Newell (BGS)
- Tempo of lineage diversification following the KT mass extinction
Supervisors: Gavin Thomas (Biology, Bristol) and Mike Benton*
- The first possible animal biomeralizers
Supervisors: Jonathan Antcliffe*, Richard Callow (Memorial University Newfoundland), Duncan Murdock (Bristol/Leicester Universities), Phil Donoghue*, and Martin Brasier (Oxford University)
- The oldest certain bilaterian fossils
Supervisors: Jonathan Antcliffe*, Duncan Murdock (Bristol/Leicester Universities), Phil Donoghue*, and Martin Brasier (Oxford University)
- The earliest fossil heart
Supervisors: Robert Sansom (University of Bath) and Phil Donoghue
- Feeding ecology of placoderms - hypercarnivorous apex predators and the key to unraveling the assembly of the vertebrate bodyplan
Supervisors: Martin Rücklin*, Phil Anderson*, Emily Rayfield* and Philip Donoghue*
- Evolutionary origins of the vertebrate skeleton
Supervisors: Duncan Murdock*, Philip Donoghue* and Emily Rayfield*
- Functional anatomy and description of a giant Upper Jurassic pliosaur.
Supervisors: Emily Rayfield*, Judyth Sassoon* and Mike Benton*
- You really are what you eat? The functional plasticity of mice jaws in response to hard or soft food diets
Supervisors: Emily Rayfield*, Phil Anderson*, and Sabrina Renaud (Lyon)
- Finite element validation of buzzards and parrots
Supervisors: Emily Rayfield*, Jen Bright*, Phil Anderson* and Sam Cobb (Hull-York Medical School)
- Cranial functional morphology of the phytosaur Ebrachosuchus
Supervisors: Emily Rayfield*, Richard Butler (University of Munich) & Oliver Rauhut (BSPG, Munich)
- The impacts of ocean acidification on the structural strength of coralline algae
Supervisors: Phil Anderson*, Laura Foster*, Federica Ragazzola, Stephen Hallett (Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol)
- Occlusion in early mammals - precision cutting or a bit sloppy?
Supervisors: Pam Gill*, Bill Clemens (University of California, Berkeley) and Phil Anderson*
- Morphological and biomechanical disparity in the jaws of herbivorous dinosaurs
Supervisors: Phil Anderson* and Emily Rayfield*
- The impact of dissolution on palaeoceanographic reconstructions
Supervisors: Marcus Badger* and Kirsty Edgar (Cardiff University)
- Testing the Paleogene 'hyperthermal' events
Supervisors: Marcus Badger* and Dr Kirsty Edgar (Cardiff University)
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