# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-j-benton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:50:55.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-j-benton"
name: "Michael J. Benton"
slug: "michael-j-benton"
description: "Michael James Benton is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record."
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category:
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birthDate: "1956-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump