| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Nutrient Excess and the Demise of Coral Reefs and Carbonate Platforms | Palaios | 1986 | 806 |
| 2 | Microbialites: Organosedimentary Deposits of Benthic Microbial Communities | Palaios | 1987 | 790 |
| 3 | Microbial Mats in Terminal Proterozoic Siliciclastics: Ediacaran Death Masks | Palaios | 1999 | 579 |
| 4 | Comparative Taphonomy: A Key to Paleoenvironmental Interpretation Based on Fossil Preservation | Palaios | 1986 | 488 |
| 5 | Conceptual Framework for the Analysis and Classification of Fossil Concentrations | Palaios | 1986 | 455 |
| 6 | Biomat-Related Lifestyles in the Precambrian | Palaios | 1999 | 455 |
| 7 | Anomalous Carbonate Precipitates: Is the Precambrian the Key to the Permian? | Palaios | 1995 | 380 |
| 8 | Bacterially Induced Lithification of Microbial Mats | Palaios | 1992 | 344 |
| 9 | Thrombolites and Stromatolites: Two Distinct Types of Microbial Structures | Palaios | 1986 | 318 |
| 10 | Larger Foraminifera: A Tool for Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Cenozoic Carbonate Depositional Facies | Palaios | 1986 | 315 |
| 11 | Isotopic Biogeochemistry ( 13 C, 18 O) of Mammalian Enamel from African Pleistocene Hominid Sites | Palaios | 1996 | 290 |
| 12 | The Biology of Deep-Sea Foraminifera: A Review of Some Advances and Their Applications in Paleoceanography | Palaios | 1994 | 264 |
| 13 | The Study of Fossil Gymnosperms by Means of Cuticular Analysis | Palaios | 1990 | 254 |
| 14 | Timing and Paleoceanography of Oceanic Dysoxia/Anoxia in the Late Barremian to Early Aptian (Early Cretaceous) | Palaios | 1994 | 253 |
| 15 | Secular Change in Chert Distribution: A Reflection of Evolving Biological Participation in the Silica Cycle | Palaios | 1989 | 252 |
| 16 | Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution | Palaios | 1988 | 232 |
| 17 | The Ichnology of Modern and Pleistocene Brackish-Water Deposits at Willapa Bay, Washington: Variability in Estuarine Settings | Palaios | 1999 | 230 |
| 18 | Microfossil Recognition in Archean Rocks: An Appraisal of Spheroids and Filaments from a 3500 M.Y. Old Chert-Barite Unit at North Pole, Western Australia | Palaios | 1990 | 229 |
| 19 | Sequence Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, and Taphonomy in Shallow Marine Environments | Palaios | 1995 | 228 |
| 20 | Decay and Mineralization of Shrimps | Palaios | 1994 | 226 |
| 21 | Terrestrial Climate Evolution in Northwest Germany Over the Last 25 Million Years | Palaios | 2000 | 216 |
| 22 | Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections from Shallow-Marine Carbonate Platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China: Implications for Oceanic Conditions Associated with the End-Permian Extinction and Its Aftermath | Palaios | 2003 | 211 |
| 23 | Indicators of Methane-Derived Carbonates and Chemosynthetic Organic Carbon Deposits: Examples from the Florida Escarpment | Palaios | 1992 | 206 |
| 24 | Counting Individuals in Mammalian Fossil Assemblages from Fluvial Environments | Palaios | 1986 | 196 |
| 25 | Paleoenvironmental Patterns in the Evolution of Post-Paleozoic Benthic Marine Invertebrates | Palaios | 1988 | 195 |
| 26 | Microbial Mats in Terrigenous Clastics: The Challenge of Identification in the Rock Record | Palaios | 1999 | 195 |
| 27 | Cross-Calibration of Daily Growth Increments, Stable Isotope Variation, and Temperature in the Gulf of California Bivalve Mollusk Chione cortezi: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Analysis | Palaios | 2001 | 187 |
| 28 | Anatomy of a Regional Mass Extinction: Plio-Pleistocene Decimation of the Western Atlantic Bivalve Fauna | Palaios | 1986 | 186 |
| 29 | Restriction of a Late Neoproterozoic Biotope: Suspect-Microbial Structures and Trace Fossils at the Vendian-Cambrian Transition | Palaios | 1999 | 183 |
| 30 | Trilobite Taphonomy and Middle Devonian Taphofacies | Palaios | 1986 | 180 |
| 31 | Resolution and Fidelity of Oxygen Isotopes as Paleotemperature Proxies in Bivalve Mollusk Shells: Models and Observations | Palaios | 2003 | 179 |
| 32 | Marking Time with Bivalve Shells: Oxygen Isotopes and Season of Annual Increment Formation | Palaios | 1996 | 178 |
| 33 | The Impact of Bioturbation on Infaunal Ecology and Evolution during the Proterozoic-Cambrian Transition | Palaios | 1999 | 176 |
| 34 | Field Description of Coarse Bioclastic Fabrics | Palaios | 1991 | 173 |
| 35 | A Comment on the Systematic Confusion of Thrombolites | Palaios | 2000 | 172 |
| 36 | Sedimentary Environments and Facies | Palaios | 1986 | 166 |
| 37 | Daily Growth Rates in Shells of Arctica islandica: Assessing Sub-seasonal Environmental Controls on a Long-lived Bivalve Mollusk | Palaios | 2005 | 166 |
| 38 | The Pangaean Megamonsoon: Evidence from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Colorado Plateau | Palaios | 1991 | 163 |
| 39 | Sedimentary Controls on the Formation and Preservation of Microbial Mats in Siliciclastic Deposits: A Case Study from the Upper Neoproterozoic Nama Group, Namibia | Palaios | 2002 | 161 |
| 40 | The Relationship between Water Motion and Living Rhodolith Beds in the Southwestern Gulf of California, Mexico | Palaios | 1999 | 160 |
| 41 | Actualistic Taphonomy of Cyanobacteria: Implications for the Precambrian Fossil Record | Palaios | 1996 | 159 |
| 42 | A New Terminology for Marine Organisms Inhabiting Hard Substrates | Palaios | 2002 | 159 |
| 43 | Sequence Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Evolution: Biotic Clues and Responses to Sea-Level Fluctuations | Palaios | 1998 | 158 |
| 44 | Insect Trace Fossil Associations in Paleosols: The Coprinisphaera Ichnofacies | Palaios | 2000 | 157 |
| 45 | Thalassinoides and the Enigma of Early Paleozoic Open-Framework Burrow Systems | Palaios | 1995 | 155 |
| 46 | Secular Increase in Nutrient Levels through the Phanerozoic: Implications for Productivity, Biomass, and Diversity of the Marine Biosphere | Palaios | 1996 | 155 |
| 47 | Nutrients, Predation and the History of Reef-Building | Palaios | 1993 | 153 |
| 48 | The Ichnologic Record of the Continental Invertebrate Invasion: Evolutionary Trends in Environmental Expansion, Ecospace Utilization, and Behavioral Complexity | Palaios | 1998 | 153 |
| 49 | Oribatid Mites and the Decomposition of Plant Tissues in Paleozoic Coal-Swamp Forests | Palaios | 1997 | 150 |
| 50 | Controls on Microbial Dome Fabric Development along a Carbonate-Siliciclastic Shelf-Basin Transect, Miocene, SE Spain | Palaios | 1995 | 147 |
