Publications and communications of Rebecca Bennion

Fischer, V., Della Giustina, F., Bennion, R., & Maclaren, J. (2025). The nature of the Cenomanian-Turonian turnover in marine reptiles [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Maclaren, J., Van Gorp, M., Selini, A., Della Giustina, F., Bennion, R., Goyens, J., Van Wassenbergh, S., Aerts, P., & Fischer, V. (June 2024). Exploring the effect of craniomandibular morphology on hydrodynamic performance in mosasaurids (Squamata, Mosasauridae) [Paper presentation]. 10th meeting of SECondary ADaptation of tetrapods to life in water, Liège, Belgium.

Coombs, E. J., Knapp, A., Park, T., Bennion, R., McCurry, M. R., Lanzetti, A., Boessenecker, R. W., & McGowen, M. R. (22 January 2024). Drivers of morphological evolution in the toothed whale jaw. Current Biology, 34 (2), 273 - 285.e3. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.056

Bennion, R., Maxwell, E., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (2024). Craniodental ecomorphology of the large Jurassic ichthyosaurian Temnodontosaurus. Journal of Anatomy, 244 (1), 22-41. doi:10.1111/joa.13939

Fischer, V., Vaczi, N., Bennion, R., Cottereau, R., Wujek, J. L., & Maclaren, J. (2024). Accurate specimen digitization through glass achieved and validated using 3D surface scanning. Palaeontologia Electronica, 27 (2), 44. doi:10.26879/1375

Bennion, R. (2023). Convergence in cranial evolution in tail-propelled raptorial marine tetrapods [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/299188

Bennion, R., Maclaren, J., Coombs, E., Marx, F., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (2023). Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans. Paleobiology, 1-17. doi:10.1017/pab.2022.27

Bianucci, G., Lambert, O., Urbina, M., Merella, M., Collareta, A., Bennion, R., Salas-Gismondi, R., Benites-Palomino, A., Post, K., de Muizon, C., Bosio, G., Di Celma, C., Malinverno, E., Pierantoni, P. P., Villa, I. M., & Amson, E. (2023). A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology. Nature, 620 (7975), 824 - 829. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06381-1

Lambert, O., Collareta, A., Benites-Palomino, A., Merella, M., de MUIZON, C., Bennion, R., Urbina, M., & Bianucci, G. (2023). Un nouveau cachalot platyrostre du Miocène inférieur du Pacifique sud-est (est du bassin de Pisco, Pérou) consolide les affinités avec la faune de cétacés de l’Atlantique sud-ouest. Geodiversitas, 45 (22), 659 - 679. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a22

Fischer, V., Bennion, R., Foffa, D., Maclaren, J., McCurry, M., Melstrom, K., & Bardet, N. (2022). Ecological signal in the size and shape of marine amniote teeth. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.1214

Maclaren, J., Bennion, R., Bardet, N., & Fischer, V. (May 2022). Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences, 289, 202220585. doi:10.1101/2021.12.30.474572

Laboury, A., Bennion, R., Ben Thuy, Weis Robert, & Fischer, V. (18 February 2022). Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Temnodontosaurus zetlandicus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 195 (1), 172-194. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab118

Coombs, E. J., Felice, R. N., Clavel, J., Park, T., Bennion, R., Churchill, M., Geisler, J. H., Beatty, B., & Goswami, A. (2022). The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution. Current Biology, 32 (10), 2233 - 2247.e4. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.060

Laboury, A., Bennion, R., Thuy, B., Weis, R., & Fischer, V. (19 December 2021). Revision of the Early Jurassic ichthyosaurian Temnodontosaurus zetlandicus [Poster presentation]. 65th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Fischer, V., Maclaren, J., Bennion, R., Sparla, P., & Bardet, N. (December 2021). Marine tetrapod feeding guilds using automated high-density 3D geometric morphometrics [Paper presentation]. 65th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Fischer, V., Maclaren, J., Bennion, R., Sparla, P., & Bardet, N. (20 April 2021). Leaving the triangle: marine tetrapod tooth guilds using automated high-density 3d geometric morphometrics [Paper presentation]. 9th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water, Santiago, Chile.

Bennion, R., Maclaren, J., Coombs, E., Marx, F., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (2021). Leviathans Unleashed: Skull Ecomorphological Evolution During The Initial Aquatic Radiations Of Mosasaurs And Cetaceans [Paper presentation]. 9th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water, Santiago, Chile.

Coombs, E., Clavel, J., Felice, R., Bennion, R., Beatty, B., Goswami, A., Park, T., Churchill, M., & Geisler, J. (2021). Influences on cranial morphology in whales: Investigating the evolutionary history and diversity of the cetacean skull [Paper presentation]. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.

Street, H., Caldwell, M., Maclaren, J., Bennion, R., & Fischer, V. (2021). A European mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasauridae) with affinities to a clade from new zealand [Paper presentation]. 81st annual meeting of the the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Bennion, R. (2020). How Whitby got its whale jaw arch (evolutionarily speaking) [Paper presentation]. Yorkshire Geological Society Christmas lectures.

Bennion, R., Maclaren, J., Coombs, E., Marx, F., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (December 2020). Charting new waters: changes in skull ecomorphology during the initial aquatic radiations of mosasaurs and cetaceans [Paper presentation]. 64th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association.

Bennion, R., Maclaren, J., Coombs, E., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (June 2020). Charting new waters: changes in skull ecomorphology during the initial aquatic radiations of mosasaurs and cetaceans [Poster presentation]. Progressive Palaeontology 2020.

Fischer, V., Maclaren, J., Soul, L. C., Bennion, R., Druckenmiller, P. S., & Benson, R. B. J. (2020). The macroevolutionary landscape of short-necked plesiosaurians. Scientific Reports, 10 (16434), 1-12. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-73413-5

Bennion, R., & Fischer, V. (2019). Taxonomic and ecomorphological reassessment of the Lower Jurassic ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus [Paper presentation]. Annual General Meeting of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Leeds, United Kingdom.

Bennion, R., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (July 2019). Mandibular shape disparity and convergence in ichthyosaurs and toothed cetaceans [Poster presentation]. 12th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Prague, Czechia.

Bennion, R., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (July 2019). Mandibular shape disparity and convergence in ichthyosaurs and toothed cetaceans [Poster presentation]. European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists.

Bennion, R., Lambert, O., & Fischer, V. (11 October 2018). Skull shape evolution in ichthyosaurs and cetaceans: detailed investigations into a classic example of convergence [Paper presentation]. Journée du Centre Interuniversitaire de Biologie Marine (CIBIM).

Marion, J.-M., Fischer, V., Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Bennion, R., & Scavezzoni, I. (2018). Les bacheliers du bloc 1 Géologie de l'ULiège. Journées de terrain, travaux pratiques: Évolution des environnements et de la tectonique de la région de Boulogne-sur-Mer, Wimereux et Wissant, sous la conduite du Prof. Valentin Fischer et de ses collaborateurs. Séquence video et photos. (ULiège - Université de Liège, GEOL0202). Liège, Belgium: ULiège/Geologie/EDDy Lab.

Richards, K., Sherwin, J., Smithson, T., Bennion, R., Davies, S., Marshall, J., & Clack, J. (2018). Diverse and durophagous: Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108 (1), 67-87. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000166