Publications

Publication montage

Peer reviewed articles (published by DeepBio@Leeds members during their time in the group or as part of DeepBio@Leeds projects)

  1. Nicholls, A.L, Wignall, P.B., Song, H., Shaw, J.O, Beckerman, A.P. and Dunhill, A.M. (2026). The timing and nature of marine ecosystem recovery following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. NPJ Biodiversity, in press.
  2. Hatfield, J. H., B. J. Allen, T. Carroll,… Shipley, A.…, Woods, L. et al. (2025). The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions. Global Change Biology 31, no. 9: e70476. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70476.
  3. Frank, A. B., B. Karapunar, S. E. Grasby, E. Koşun, N. Lahajnar, M. A. Gómez Correa, S. Z. Buchwald, M. Metzke and W. J. Foster (2025). “Assessing the role of anoxia as a potential extinction driver in the shallow marine Neotethys during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.” Chemical Geology 696: 123108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123108.
  4. Buchwald, S. Z., D. Birgel, K. Senger, T. Mosociova, Y. Pei, V. Zuchuat, L. G. Tarhan, A. B. Frank, F. Galasso, M. A. Gómez Correa, E. Koşun, B. Karapunar, X. Wang, E. Kustatscher, H. Prinoth, N. Lahajnar, R. Steinkrauss, J. Peckmann and W. J. Foster (2025). “Phytoplankton Blooms on the Barents Shelf, Svalbard, Associated With the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction.” AGU Advances 6(5): e2025AV001785. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV001785.
  5. Clay C.G., Dunhill A.M., and Beger M. (2025) Trait networks reveal turnover in Caribbean corals and changes in community resilience through the Cenozoic. Paleobiology, 51(3):432-451. doi:10.1017/pab.2025.10062
  6. Smith J.A., Dowding E.M., Abdelhady A.A., … Dunhill, A.M. et al. (2025). Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project. Paleobiology. 51(3): 408-431, doi:10.1017/pab.2025.10042
  7. Neubauer, T.A., Karapunar, B. , Schneider, S. , Werner, W. (2025) The Mesozoic pectinid genera Velata and Eopecten and their type species (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen. 39-56.
  8. Xu J., Yu J., Yin H., Merdith A.S., Hilton J., Allen B.J., Gurung K., Wignall P.B., Dunhill A.M., Shen J., Schwartzman D., Goddéris Y., Donnadieu Y., Wang Y., Zhang Y., Poulton S., and Mills B.J.W. (2025). Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse. Nature Communications 16, 5400, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60396-y.
  9. Clay, C.G., Dunhill, A.M., Reimer, J.D. and Beger, M. (2024). Trait Networks: Quantifying Marine Community Resilience and Extinction Recovery. iScience, 27 (10), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110962.
  10. Dunhill, A.M., K. Zarzyczny, J. O. Shaw, J. W. Atkinson, C. T. S. Little and A. Beckerman. (2024). Extinction cascades, community collapse and community recovery across a Mesozoic hyperthermal event. Nature Communications, 15: 8599, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53000-2.
  11. Karapunar, B., Höhna, S., & Nützel, A. (2024). Phylogeny of the longest existing gastropod clade (Pleurotomariida) reconstructed with Bayesian and parsimony methods and its implications on gastropod shell characters. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2384141
  12. Simpson K.E. clocks replaced with : ; . [Deschooling Time in the Small Isles] (2024) Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 2:e11. doi:10.1017/ext.2024.6
  13. Karapunar B, Todd JA, Nützel A. (2024). Slit-bearing gastropods in the Jane Longstaff Collection at the Natural History Museum, London from the Visean (Carboniferous) of Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland. Journal of Paleontology: 98(1):79-101. doi:10.1017/jpa.2024.1
  14. Foster, W. J., B. J. Allen, N. H. Kitzmann, J. Münchmeyer, T. Rettelbach, J. D. Witts, R. J. Whittle, E. Larina, M. E. Clapham and A. M. Dunhill. (2023). How predictable are mass extinction events? Royal Society Open Science 10: 221507. doi:10.1098/rsos.221507
  15. Allen, B.J., Clapham, M.E., Saupe, E.E., Wignall, P.B., Hill, D.J., and Dunhill, A.M. (2023) Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: a case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record. Paleobiology, 1-18. doi:10.1017/pab.2023.1
  16. Atkinson, J., Little, C.T.S, and Dunhill, A.M. (2022) Long duration of benthic ecological recovery from the early Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) mass extinction event in the Cleveland Basin, UK. Journal of the Geological Society of London. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/jgs2022-126
  17. He, T., Newton, R. J., Wignall, P. B., Reid, S., Dal Corso, J., Takahashi, S., Wu, H., Todaro, S., Di Stefano, P., Randazzo, V., Rigo, M. and Dunhill, A.M. (2022). Shallow ocean oxygen decline during the end-Triassic mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change 210: 103770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103770
  18. Capriolo, M., Mills B.J.W., Newton, R.J., Dal Corso, J., Dunhill, A.M., Wignall, P.B., and Marzoli, A. 2021. Anthropogenic-scale CO2 degassing from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province as a driver of the end-Triassic mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change, 209, 103371, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103731
  19. Lyon, C., Saupe, E.E., Smith, C.J., Hill, D.J., Beckerman, A.P., Stringer, L.C., Marchant, R., McKay, J., Burke, A., O’Higgins, P., Dunhill, A.M., Allen, B.J., Riel-Salvatore, and Aze, T. 2021. Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100. Global Change Biology, 00,  1-13, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15871
  20. Fenton, I.F., Woodhouse, A.D., Aze, T., Lazarus, D., Renaudie, J. Young, J., Dunhill, A.M., and Saupe, E.E. 2021. Triton: a new species-level database of Cenozoic planktonic foraminiferal occurrences. Scientific Data, 8, 160, https//doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00942-7
  21. He, T., Dal Corso, J. Newton, R.J., Wignall, P.B., Mills, B.J.W., Todaro, S., Di Stefano, P., Turner, E.C., Jamieson, R.A., Randazzo, V., Rigo, M., Jones, R.E., and Dunhill, A.M. 2020. An enormous sulfur isotope excursion indicates marine anoxia during the end–Triassic mass extinction. Science Advances, 6 (37), eabb6704, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb6704.
  22. Song, H., Huang, S., Jia, E., Dai, X., Wignall, P.B., and Dunhill, A.M. 2020. Flat latitudinal diversity gradient caused by the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201918953. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918953117
  23. Allen, B.J., Wignall, P.B., Hill, D.J., Saupe, E.S., and Dunhill, A.M. 2020. The latitudinal diversity gradient of tetrapods across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction and recovery interval. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences, 287, 20201125. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.1125
  24. Walker, F.M., Dunhill, A.M., and Benton, M.J. 2019. Variable preservation potential and richness in the fossil record of vertebrates. Palaeontology, 63, 313-329,  https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12458. 
  25. Driscoll, D.A., Dunhill, A.M., Stubbs, T.L., and Benton, M.J. 2019. The mosasaur fossil record through the lens of fossil completeness. Palaeontology, 62, 51-75, doi: 10.1111/pala.12381.
  26. Dunhill, A.M., Foster, W.J., Azaele, S., Sciberras, J., and Twitchett, R.J. 2018. Modelling determinants of extinction across two Mesozoic hyperthermal events. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences, 285, 20180404, doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0404.
  27. Song, H., Wignall, P.B., and Dunhill, A.M. 2018. Decoupled taxonomic and ecological recoveries from the Permo-Triassic extinction. Science Advances, 4, eaat5091, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat5091.
  28. Dunhill, A.M., W.J. Foster, J. Sciberras, and R.J. Twitchett. 2018. Impact of the Late Triassic Mass Extinction on functional diversity and composition of marine ecosystems. Palaeontology, 61: 133-148, doi:10.1111/pala.12332.
  29. Dunhill, A.M., Hannisdal, B., Brocklehurst, N. & Benton, M.J. 2018 Testing the accuracy of formation-based sampling proxies to correct the fossil record. Palaeontology, 61: 119-132, doi:10.1111/pala.12331.
  30. Walker, F.M., A.M. Dunhill, M.A. Woods, A.J. Newell, and M.J. Benton. 2017. Assessing sampling of the fossil record in a geographically and stratigraphically constrained dataset: the Chalk Group of Hampshire, southern UK. Journal of the Geological Society, 174: 509-521, doi: https://doi.org//10.1144/jgs2016-093.
  31. Dunhill, A.M., J. Bestwick, H. Narey, and J. Sciberras. 2016. Dinosaur biogeographical structure and Mesozoic continental fragmentation: a network-based approach. Journal of Biogeography, 43(9): 1691-1704, doi: 10.1111/jbi.12766.
  32. Dunhill, A.M., and M.A. Wills. 2015. Geographic range did not confer resilience to extinction in terrestrial vertebrates at the end-Triassic crisis. Nature Communications. 6: 7980, doi: 10.1038/ncomms8980.
  33. Cleary, T.J., B.C. Moon, A.M. Dunhill, and M.J. Benton. 2015. The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases. Palaeontology, 58(3): 521-536, doi: 10.1111/pala.12158
  34. Dunhill, A. M., B. Hannisdal, and M. J. Benton. 2014. Disentangling geological megabias and common-cause from redundancy in the British fossil record. Nature Communications, 5: 4818, doi: 10.1038/ncomms5818
  35. Dunhill, A. M., M. J. Benton, R. J. Twitchett, and A. J. Newell. 2014. Testing the fossil record: sampling proxies and scalinthe British Triassic-Jurassic. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology,  404: 1-11, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.026
  36. Dunhill, A. M., M. J. Benton, A. J. Newell, and R. J. Twitchett. 2013. Completeness of the fossil record and the validity of sampling proxies: a case study from the Triassic of England and Wales. Journal of the Geological Society 170(2): 291-300, doi: 10.1144/jgs2012-025
  37. Benton, M. J., M. Ruta, A. M. Dunhill, and M. Sakamoto. 2013. The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 372:18-41, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.005
  38. Dunhill, A. M., M. J. Benton, R. J. Twitchett, and A. J. Newell. 2012. Completeness of the fossil record and the validity of sampling proxies at outcrop level. Palaeontology 55(6): 1155-1175, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01149.x
  39. Dunhill, A. M. 2012. Problems with using rock outcrop area as a paleontological sampling proxy: rock outcrop and exposure area compared with coastal proximity, topography, land use, and lithology. Paleobiology 38(1):126-143, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/10062.1
  40. Benton, M. J., A. M. Dunhill, G. T. Lloyd, and F. G. Marx. 2011. Assessing the quality of the fossil record: insights from vertebrates. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358(1): 63-94, doi: 10.1144/SP358.6
  41. Dunhill, A. M. 2011. Using remote sensing and a GIS to quantify rock exposure area in England and Wales: implications for paleodiversity studies. Geology 39: 111-114, doi:10.1130/G31503.1

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Pre-prints (not peer-reviewed) by A. Dunhill

  1. Allen, B.J., Warnock, R.C.M., and Dunhill A.M. 2025. “A history of the world imperfectly kept”: Will we ever know how biodiversity has changed over deep time? EcoEvoRxiv. 2025.05.03. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2DD1V.
  2. Shaw, J.O, Dunhill, A.M., Beckerman, A.P., Dunne, J.A., and Hull, P.M. (2024) A framework for reconstructing ancient food webs using functional trait data. bioRxiv 2024.01.30.578036; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.30.578036.
  3. Dunhill, A. M., K. Zarzyczny, J. O. Shaw, J. W. Atkinson, C. T. S. Little and A. Beckerman. 2022. Extinction cascades, community collapse and community recovery across a Mesozoic hyperthermal event. bioRxiv 10.1101/2022.06.13.495894
  4. Dunhill, A.M., Foster, W. J., Azaele, S., Sciberras, J., & Twitchett, R. J. (2018, October 16). Modelling determinants of extinction across two Mesozoic hyperthermal events. PaleorXiv https://paleorxiv.org/fywvm/
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