| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form | Paleobiology | 1982 | 4,401 |
| 2 | Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered | Paleobiology | 1977 | 2,414 |
| 3 | Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering | Paleobiology | 1978 | 2,025 |
| 4 | Size and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny | Paleobiology | 1979 | 1,440 |
| 5 | The Mesozoic marine revolution: evidence from snails, predators and grazers | Paleobiology | 1977 | 900 |
| 6 | A factor analytic description of the Phanerozoic marine fossil record | Paleobiology | 1981 | 850 |
| 7 | Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging? | Paleobiology | 1980 | 659 |
| 8 | A kinetic model of Phanerozoic taxonomic diversity. III. Post-Paleozoic families and mass extinctions | Paleobiology | 1984 | 654 |
| 9 | Bangiomorpha pubescens n. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes | Paleobiology | 2000 | 630 |
| 10 | Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary | Paleobiology | 2000 | 537 |
| 11 | A kinetic model of Phanerozoic taxonomic diversity I. Analysis of marine orders | Paleobiology | 1978 | 458 |
| 12 | Taphonomy and paleobiology | Paleobiology | 2000 | 452 |
| 13 | A guide for differentiating mammalian carnivore taxa responsible for gnaw damage to herbivore limb bones | Paleobiology | 1983 | 402 |
| 14 | Origination, extinction, and mass depletions of marine diversity | Paleobiology | 2004 | 393 |
| 15 | Faunal and environmental change in the late Miocene Siwaliks of northern Pakistan | Paleobiology | 2002 | 383 |
| 16 | Form and function: structural analysis in evolutionary morphology | Paleobiology | 1981 | 382 |
| 17 | The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: sorting and selection cannot be equated | Paleobiology | 1986 | 372 |
| 18 | A kinetic model of Phanerozoic taxonomic diversity II. Early Phanerozoic families and multiple equilibria | Paleobiology | 1979 | 368 |
| 19 | Pleistocene extinctions: the pivotal role of megaherbivores | Paleobiology | 1987 | 363 |
| 20 | Anatomy of an invasion: the trans-Arctic interchange | Paleobiology | 1991 | 357 |
| 21 | Evidence of carnivore gnawing on Pleistocene and Recent mammalian bones | Paleobiology | 1980 | 350 |
| 22 | Species diversity in the Phanerozoic: an interpretation | Paleobiology | 1976 | 347 |
| 23 | When are leaves good thermometers? A new case for Leaf Margin Analysis | Paleobiology | 1997 | 344 |
| 24 | Origination and extinction components of taxonomic diversity: general problems | Paleobiology | 2000 | 344 |
| 25 | Can C3 plants faithfully record the carbon isotopic composition of atmospheric carbon dioxide? | Paleobiology | 2000 | 334 |
| 26 | Beginnings of biospheric evolution and their biogeochemical consequences | Paleobiology | 1976 | 326 |
| 27 | Confidence intervals on stratigraphic ranges | Paleobiology | 1990 | 325 |
| 28 | Ten years in the library: new data confirm paleontological patterns | Paleobiology | 1993 | 317 |
| 29 | Disparity as an evolutionary index: a comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods | Paleobiology | 1994 | 312 |
| 30 | Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic: a reinterpretation | Paleobiology | 2001 | 308 |
| 31 | The dynamics of evolutionary stasis | Paleobiology | 2005 | 308 |
| 32 | The mid-Paleozoic precursor to the Mesozoic marine revolution | Paleobiology | 1984 | 306 |
| 33 | Individuals, hierarchies and processes: towards a more complete evolutionary theory | Paleobiology | 1984 | 304 |
| 34 | Time resolution in fluvial vertebrate assemblages | Paleobiology | 1982 | 303 |
| 35 | Discordance and concordance between morphological and taxonomic diversity | Paleobiology | 1993 | 302 |
| 36 | Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia | Paleobiology | 2000 | 295 |
| 37 | Species richness in marine benthic habitats through the Phanerozoic | Paleobiology | 1977 | 287 |
| 38 | Testate amoebae in the Neoproterozoic Era: evidence from vase-shaped microfossils in the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon | Paleobiology | 2000 | 279 |
| 39 | The shape of evolution: a comparison of real and random clades | Paleobiology | 1977 | 276 |
| 40 | Seafood through time: changes in biomass, energetics, and productivity in the marine ecosystem | Paleobiology | 1993 | 276 |
| 41 | Taphonomic investigations of owl pellets | Paleobiology | 1979 | 273 |
| 42 | The conceptual relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny | Paleobiology | 1982 | 263 |
| 43 | The paradox of the first tier: an agenda for paleobiology | Paleobiology | 1985 | 263 |
| 44 | Rarefaction and rarefiction—the use and abuse of a method in paleoecology | Paleobiology | 1979 | 262 |
| 45 | Prey Selection by naticid gastropods: experimental tests and application to the fossil record | Paleobiology | 1981 | 262 |
| 46 | Milankovitch cycles and their effects on species in ecological and evolutionary time | Paleobiology | 1990 | 262 |
| 47 | Taxonomic diversity estimation using rarefaction | Paleobiology | 1975 | 258 |
| 48 | The role of anoxia in the decay and mineralization of proteinaceous macro-fossils | Paleobiology | 1988 | 258 |
| 49 | Caudofemoral musculature and the evolution of theropod locomotion | Paleobiology | 1990 | 254 |
| 50 | New methods for quantifying macroevolutionary patterns and processes | Paleobiology | 2000 | 254 |
