2020. Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques. PeerJ 8:e9604. LINK
Baron, M. G. 2020. Difficulties with the origin of dinosaurs: a comment on the current debate. Palaeovertebrata 43 (1) e3. LINK
Baron, M. G. 2020. Tactile tails: a new hypothesis for the function of the elongate tails of diplodocid sauropods. Historical Biology. LINK
Baron, M. G. 2019. Pisanosaurus mertii and the Triassic ornithischian crisis: could phylogeny offer a solution? Historical Biology 1-15. LINK
Lee, M. S. Y., Baron, M. G., Norman, D. B., and Barrett, P. M. Dynamic biogeographic models and dinosaur origins. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 109 (1-2) 325-332. LINK
Baron, M. G., and P. M. Barrett. 2018. Support for the placement of Chilesaurus within Ornithischia: a reply to Müller et al. Biology Letters 14 (3): 20180002. LINK
Parry, L.A, M. G. Baron, and J. Vinther. 2018. Correction to ‘Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida’. Royal Society Open Science 5: 180154. LINK
Tennant, J. P., A. A. Chiarenza, and M. G. Baron. 2018. How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history?. PeerJ 6:e4417. LINK
Baron, M. G., and M. E. Williams. 2018. A re-evaluation of the enigmatic dinosauriform Caseosaurus crosbyensis from the Late Triassic of Texas and its implications for early dinosaur evolution and interrelationships. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (1): 129–145. LINK
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Parry, L. A., M. G. Baron, and J. Vinther. 2017. Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida. Royal Society Open Science 4: 170833. LINK
Baron, M. G., and P. M. Barrett. 2017. A dinosaur missing link? Chilesaurus and the evolution of Ornithischia. Biology Letters 13 (8): 20170220. LINK
Baron, M. G., D. B. Norman, and P. M. Barrett. 2017b. A novel hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and its implications for understanding early dinosaur evolution. Nature 543: 501–506. LINK
Baron, M. G., D. B. Norman, and P.M. Barrett. 2017a. Postcranial anatomy of Lesothosaurus diagnosticus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa: implications for basal ornithischian taxonomy and systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 125–168. LINK
Barrett P. M., R. J. Butler, A. M. Yates, M. G. Baron, and J. N. Choiniere. 2016. New specimens of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton, 1978 from the Early Jurassic of South Africa. Palaeontologia africana 50: 48–63. LINK
Baron, M. G. 2015. An investigation of the genus Mesacanthus (Chordata: Acanthodii) from the Orcadian Basin and Midland Valley areas of Northern and Central Scotland using traditional morphometrics. PeerJ 3:e1331. LINK
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