| Recent advances in marspial systematics with a new syncretic classification K Aplin, M Archer Possums and Opossums. Studies in evolution 1, XV-lxxii, 1987 | 366 | 1987 |
| First Mesozoic mammal from Australia—an early Cretaceous monotreme M Archer, TF Flannery, A Ritchie, RE Molnar Nature 318 (6044), 363-366, 1985 | 334 | 1985 |
| Riversleigh M Archer, S Hand, H Godthelp Reed, 1991 | 303 | 1991 |
| The Australian marsupial radiation M Archer, SJ Hand Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates, 575-646, 2006 | 292* | 2006 |
| The Australian marsupial radiation M Archer Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia, 633-808, 1984 | 292 | 1984 |
| Puntutjarpa rockshelter and the Australian desert culture RA Gould, M Archer, N Bronstein, HA Martin, M Archer American Museum of Natural History 54 (1), 1977 | 243 | 1977 |
| Fossil mammals of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland: preliminary overview of biostratigraphy, correlation and environmental change M Archer, H Godthelp, S Hand, D Megirian Australian zoologist 25 (2), 29-66, 1989 | 226 | 1989 |
| The distribution of the cane toad,'Bufo marinus', in Australia and its effects on Indigenous vertebrates J Covacevich, M Archer Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 17 (2), 305-311, 1975 | 219 | 1975 |
| First discovery of monotremes in South America R Pascual, M Archer, EO Jaureguizar, JL Prado, H Godthelp, SJ Hand Nature 356 (6371), 704-706, 1992 | 203 | 1992 |
| Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) S Wroe, JH Field, M Archer, DK Grayson, GJ Price, J Louys, JT Faith, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (22), 8777-8781, 2013 | 198 | 2013 |
| The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), interrelationships of carnivorous marsupials, and affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids M Archer Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 59 (3), 217-322, 1976 | 197 | 1976 |
| The dasyurid dentition and its relationships to that of didelphids, thylacinids, borhyaenids (Marsupicarnivora) and peramelids (Peramelina: Marsupialia) M Archer Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 24 (39), 1-34, 1976 | 195 | 1976 |
| Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: one hundred million years of evolution JA Long JHU Press, 2002 | 189 | 2002 |
| Systematics of Itaboraian (middle Paleocene) age “opossum-like” marsupials from the limestone quarry at São José de Itaboraí, Brazil LG Marshall, M Archer Possums and opossums: studies in evolution 1, 91-160, 1987 | 162 | 1987 |
| Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna H Godthelp, M Archer, R Cifelli, SJ Hand, CF Gilkeson Nature 356 (6369), 514-516, 1992 | 159 | 1992 |
| The nature of the molar-premolar boundary in marsupials and a reinterpretation of the homology of marsupial cheekteeth M Archer Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 18 (2), 157-164, 1978 | 149 | 1978 |
| Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific TH Worthy, AJD Tennyson, M Archer, AM Musser, SJ Hand, C Jones, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (51), 19419-19423, 2006 | 144 | 2006 |
| The rise of Australian marsupials: a synopsis of biostratigraphic, phylogenetic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic understanding KH Black, M Archer, SJ Hand, H Godthelp Earth and life: global biodiversity, extinction intervals and biogeographic …, 2012 | 143 | 2012 |
| Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications RMD Beck, H Godthelp, V Weisbecker, M Archer, SJ Hand PLos one 3 (3), e1858, 2008 | 141 | 2008 |
| Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification M Archer Carnivorous marsupials 2, 397-443, 1982 | 138 | 1982 |
