Marcello Ruta is an Italian paleontologist. Ruta's research primarily has focused on the

anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having it ...

and evolutionary significance of

Paleozoic The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838 by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...

tetrapods Tetrapods (; ) are four-limbed vertebrate animals constituting the superclass Tetrapoda (). It includes extant and extinct amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, including dinosaurs and therefore birds) and synapsids ( pelycosaurs, extinct therapsi ...

Selected publications

*Ruta, M., Coates, M. I. and Quicke, D. L. J. 2003. Early tetrapod relationships revisited. ''Biological Reviews'' 78: 251-345. *Ruta, M., Jeffery, J. E. and Coates, M. I. 2003. A supertree of early tetrapods. ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences'' 270: 2507-2516. *Ruta, M. and Coates, M. I. 2007. Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the lissamphibian origin problem. ''Journal of Systematic Palaeontology'' 5: 67-122. *Ruta, M., Pisani, D., Lloyd, G. T. and Benton, M. J. 2007. A supertree of Temnospondyli: cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods. ''Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences'' 274: 3087-3095.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruta, Marcello Italian paleontologists Academics of the University of Bristol Year of birth missing (living people) Living people