| Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota SE Gabbott, H Xian-Guang, MJ Norry, DJ Siveter Geology 32 (10), 901-904, 2004 | 280 | 2004 |
| Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation RS Sansom, SE Gabbott, MA Purnell Nature 463 (7282), 797-800, 2010 | 266 | 2010 |
| Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation RR Gaines, EU Hammarlund, X Hou, C Qi, SE Gabbott, Y Zhao, J Peng, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (14), 5180-5184, 2012 | 243 | 2012 |
| A giant conodont with preserved muscle tissue from the Upper Ordovician of South Africa SE Gabbott, RJ Aldridge, JN Theron Nature 374 (6525), 800-803, 1995 | 184 | 1995 |
| Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils C Colleary, A Dolocan, J Gardner, S Singh, M Wuttke, R Rabenstein, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (41), 12592-12597, 2015 | 145 | 2015 |
| An early Cambrian greenhouse climate TW Hearing, THP Harvey, M Williams, MJ Leng, AL Lamb, PR Wilby, ... Science advances 4 (5), eaar5690, 2018 | 125 | 2018 |
| Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record RS Sansom, SE Gabbott, MA Purnell Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1709), 1150-1157, 2011 | 113 | 2011 |
| The Mazon Creek Lagerstätte: a diverse late Paleozoic ecosystem entombed within siderite concretions T Clements, M Purnell, S Gabbott Journal of the Geological Society 176 (1), 1-11, 2019 | 99 | 2019 |
| Ubiquitous Burgess Shale–style “clay templates” in low-grade metamorphic mudrocks A Page, SE Gabbott, PR Wilby, JA Zalasiewicz Geology 36 (11), 855-858, 2008 | 93 | 2008 |
| Man-made natural and regenerated cellulosic fibres greatly outnumber microplastic fibres in the atmosphere AMD Finnegan, R Süsserott, SE Gabbott, C Gouramanis Environmental Pollution 310, 119808, 2022 | 92 | 2022 |
| Taphonomy of the Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte: an example of soft tissue preservation in clay minerals SE Gabbott Palaeontology 41, 631-668, 1998 | 91 | 1998 |
| The eyes of Tullimonstrum reveal a vertebrate affinity T Clements, A Dolocan, P Martin, MA Purnell, J Vinther, SE Gabbott Nature 532 (7600), 500-503, 2016 | 87 | 2016 |
| Taphonomy and affinity of an enigmatic Silurian vertebrate, Jamoytius kerwoodi White RS Sansom, KIM Freedman, SE Gabbott, RJ Aldridge, MA Purnell Palaeontology 53 (6), 1393-1409, 2010 | 85 | 2010 |
| Atlas of vertebrate decay: a visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation RS Sansom, SE Gabbott, MA Purnell Palaeontology 56 (3), 457-474, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye SE Gabbott, PCJ Donoghue, RS Sansom, J Vinther, A Dolocan, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1836), 20161151, 2016 | 80 | 2016 |
| Experimental analysis of soft‐tissue fossilization: opening the black box MA Purnell, PJC Donoghue, SE Gabbott, ME McNamara, DJE Murdock, ... Palaeontology 61 (3), 317-323, 2018 | 79 | 2018 |
| The apparatus architecture and function of Promissum pulchrum Kovács-Endrödy (Conodonta, Upper Ordovician) and the prioniodontid plan RJ Aldridge, RJ Purnell, SE Gabbott, JN Theron Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 1995 | 77 | 1995 |
| The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China: the flowering of early animal life H Xian-Guang, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter, RJ Aldridge, C Pei-Yun, ... John Wiley & Sons, 2017 | 76 | 2017 |
| Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians DJE Murdock, SE Gabbott, G Mayer, MA Purnell BMC Evolutionary Biology 14 (1), 222, 2014 | 74 | 2014 |
| Orthoconic cephalopods and associated fauna from the late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagersta¨tte, South Africa SE Gabbott Palaeontology 42 (1), 123-148, 1999 | 74 | 1999 |
