Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

• Roger B. J. Benson ,

  * E-mail: roger.benson@earth.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Nicolás E. Campione,

  Affiliations Departments of Earth Sciences (Palaeobiology) and Organismal Biology (Evolution and Development), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Matthew T. Carrano,

  Affiliation Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

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• Philip D. Mannion,

  Affiliation Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Corwin Sullivan,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China

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• Paul Upchurch,

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• David C. Evans

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

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