| Vertebrate palaeontology MJ Benton John Wiley & Sons, 2014 | 1407 | 2014 |
| Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue Molecular biology and evolution 24 (1), 26-53, 2007 | 1092 | 2007 |
| Diversification and extinction in the history of life MJ Benton Science 268 (5207), 52-58, 1995 | 974 | 1995 |
| Archosaur phylogeny and the relationships of the Crocodylia MJ Benton, JM Clark The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods 1, 295-338, 1988 | 952 | 1988 |
| The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction ZQ Chen, MJ Benton Nature Geoscience 5 (6), 375-383, 2012 | 892 | 2012 |
| Fossil Record 2 MJ Benton The fossil record 2, 1993 | 811 | 1993 |
| Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations JF Parham, PCJ Donoghue, CJ Bell, TD Calway, JJ Head, PA Holroyd, ... Systematic biology 61 (2), 346-359, 2012 | 770 | 2012 |
| The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time MJ Benton Science 323 (5915), 728-732, 2009 | 698 | 2009 |
| How to kill (almost) all life: the end-Permian extinction event MJ Benton, RJ Twitchett Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18 (7), 358-365, 2003 | 685 | 2003 |
| When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Revised edition) MJ Benton Thames & Hudson, 2015 | 649 | 2015 |
| Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs SL Brusatte, MJ Benton, M Ruta, GT Lloyd Science 321 (5895), 1485-1488, 2008 | 504 | 2008 |
| Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles MJ Benton Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 (2), 97-164, 1985 | 494 | 1985 |
| Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time S Sahney, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1636), 759-765, 2008 | 451 | 2008 |
| Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules PCJ Donoghue, MJ Benton Trends in ecology & evolution 22 (8), 424-431, 2007 | 441 | 2007 |
| Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution GT Lloyd, KE Davis, D Pisani, JE Tarver, M Ruta, M Sakamoto, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1650), 2483-2490, 2008 | 408 | 2008 |
| Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds F Zhang, SL Kearns, PJ Orr, MJ Benton, Z Zhou, D Johnson, X Xu, ... Nature 463 (7284), 1075-1078, 2010 | 390 | 2010 |
| Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain MJ Benton, PS Spencer Springer Science & Business Media, 1995 | 360* | 1995 |
| Early Jurassic mass extinction: a global long-term event CTS Little, MJ Benton Geology 23 (6), 495-498, 1995 | 357 | 1995 |
| The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity MJ Benton, P Wilf, H Sauquet New Phytologist 233 (5), 2017-2035, 2022 | 346 | 2022 |
| Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman, TJ Near, J Vinther | 346 | 2015 |
Zhong-Qiang ChenProfessor of Geobiology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)Verified email at cug.edu.cn
