David M. Unwin

University of Debrecen — Hungary

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology(83), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(66), Ichthyology and Marine Biology(49), Amphibian and Reptile Biology(11), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils(10)

Publications123 total

Reinterpretation of <i>Bakiribu waridza</i> from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: a fish not a pterosaur
2025Open Access
Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage
Current Biology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Identifying pterosaur trackmakers provides critical insights into mid-Mesozoic ground invasion
Current Biology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Re-evaluation of <i>Pterodactylus antiquus</i> and <i>Diopecephalus kochi</i> : two troublesome taxonomic concepts
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Hand and foot morphology maps invasion of terrestrial environments by pterosaurs in the mid-Mesozoic
Current Biology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Insects, plants and microclimate
2024· 32 cited
A ‘giant’ pterodactyloid pterosaur from the British Jurassic
Proceedings of the Geologists Association·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Comparative taphonomy of Kem Kem Group (Cretaceous) pterosaurs of southeast Morocco
Evolving Earth·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
A new pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland and the early diversification of flying reptiles
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology·2023· 14 cited
A new pterosaur specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China: The oldest fossil record of <i>Nurhachius</i>
Historical Biology·2023· 2 cited
The pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco
Paläontologische Zeitschrift·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Evidence for a mixed-age group in a pterosaur footprint assemblage from the early Upper Cretaceous of Korea
Scientific Reports·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Terminal-Cretaceous Dinosauria and Pterosauria from a Cretaceous-Paleogene mass-death assemblage, Hell Creek Formation, U.S.A.
2022Open Access
A new pterosaur from Skye, Scotland and the early diversification of flying reptiles
2022· 3 cited
Small, immature pterosaurs from the Cretaceous of Africa: implications for taphonomic bias and palaeocommunity structure in flying reptiles
Cretaceous Research·2021· 12 cited
Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables
Royal Society Open Science·2021· 13 citedOpen Access
Table S1 from Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables
Figshare·2021Open Access
Edentulous pterosaurs from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of eastern England with a review of Ornithostoma Seeley, 1871
Proceedings of the Geologists Association·2020· 11 citedOpen Access
Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis
Nature Communications·2020· 64 citedOpen Access
No protofeathers on pterosaurs
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2020· 11 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

David M. Martill(10), Junchang Lü(7), Sarah A. Corbet(5), Nizar Ibrahim(5), Xingsheng Jin(3), Qiang Ji(3), Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones(3), Samir Zouhri(3), Jordan Bestwick(3), Mark A. Purnell(3), Yongqing Liu(2), Pat Willmer(2), Lahssen Baïdder(2), Natalia N. Bakhurina(2), Min Huh(2), Martin G. Lockley(2), Joanna L. Wright(2), D. Charles Deeming(2), Richard J. Butler(2), J. W. L. Beament(1)