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British Institute for Geological Conservation Committee: Prof. M.J. Benton Mike Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Bristol, and he is currently Head of the Department of Earth Sciences. His research is on dinosaurs, diversification and mass extinctions. He is currently working on the origin of dinosaurs and on the end-Permian mass extinction, the greatest extinction event of all time. He is deeply committed to earth sciences education and public engagement, and is author of some fifty books on dinosaurs and the history of life. He has had a long interest in geoconservation, having worked on the Geological Conservation Review from the 1980s, and being author and co-author of three GCR volumes. Contact: Webpage: http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/admin/personnel/MJB.html Postal address: Dept. of Earth Sciences University of Bristol Wills Memorial Building Queen's Road BRISTOL BS8 1RJ Relevant publications Benton, M. J. and Wimbledon, W. A. 1985. The conservation and use of fossil vertebrate sites: British fossil reptile sites. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 96, 1-6. Benton, M. J. 1985. Fossil reptile sites. Earth Science Conservation 22, 29. Benton, M. J. 1988. British fossil reptile sites. In Crowther, P. and Wimbledon, W. A. (eds.) The use and conservation of palaeontological sites. Special Paper in Palaeontology 40, 73-84. Allen, P., Benton, M. J., Black, G. P., Cleal, C. J., Evans, K. M., Jusypiw, S. I., Rowlands, M. A. and Westoll, T. S. 1989. The future of earth sciences site conservation in Great Britain. Geological Curator 5, 101-109. Benton, M. J. and Spencer, P. S. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman and Hall, London, 386 pp. Benton, M. J., Cook, E. and Turner, P. 2002. Permian and Triassic red beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, xvi + 337 pp. Benton, M. J., Cook, E. and Hooker, J. J. 2005. Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain. Joint Nature Conservancy Committee, London, 215 pp.