Michael J. Benton

British palaeontologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1956 · age 70

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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