| Assembling the squamate tree of life: perspectives from the phenotype and the fossil record JA Gauthier, M Kearney, JA Maisano, O Rieppel, ADB Behlke Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 53 (1), 3-308, 2012 | 633 | 2012 |
| An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China C Li, XC Wu, O Rieppel, LT Wang, LJ Zhao Nature 456 (7221), 497-501, 2008 | 486 | 2008 |
| Fundamentals of comparative biology O Rieppel (No Title), 1988 | 428 | 1988 |
| The origin and early evolution of turtles O Rieppel, RR Reisz Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30 (1), 1-22, 1999 | 320 | 1999 |
| Reptile phylogeny and the interrelationships of turtles M deBRAGA, O RIEPPEL Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120 (3), 281-354, 1997 | 305 | 1997 |
| Similarity O Rieppel, M Kearney Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75 (1), 59-82, 2002 | 295 | 2002 |
| Turtles as diapsid reptiles O Rieppel, M DeBraga Nature 384 (6608), 453-455, 1996 | 290* | 1996 |
| Sauropterygia I: placodontia, pachypleurosauria, nothosauroidea, pistosauroidea O Rieppel Encyclopedia of paleoherpetology 12, 1-134, 2000 | 287 | 2000 |
| A fossil snake with limbs E Tchernov, O Rieppel, H Zaher, MJ Polcyn, LL Jacobs Science 287 (5460), 2010-2012, 2000 | 270 | 2000 |
| A review of the origin of snakes O Rieppel Evolutionary biology, 37-130, 1988 | 226 | 1988 |
| Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. v. Patterns of ossification in the skeleton of Alligator mississippiensis DAUDIN (Reptilia, Crocodylia) O Rieppel Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 109 (3), 301-325, 1993 | 215 | 1993 |
| Osteology of Simosaurus gaillardoti and the relationships of stem-group Sauropterygia O Rieppel Publication (Field Museum of Natural History), 1462, 1994 | 175 | 1994 |
| Tooth implantation and replacement in squamates, with special reference to mosasaur lizards and snakes. American Museum novitates; no. 3271 H Zaher, O Rieppel New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1999 | 166 | 1999 |
| The phylogeny of anguinomorph lizards O Rieppel Birkhäuser, 1980 | 161 | 1980 |
| A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China R Motani, DY Jiang, GB Chen, A Tintori, O Rieppel, C Ji, JD Huang Nature 517 (7535), 485-488, 2015 | 154 | 2015 |
| Stratocladistics: morphological and temporal patterns and their relation to phylogenetic process DC Fisher, L Grande, O Rieppel Interpreting the hierarchy of nature, 133-171, 1994 | 154 | 1994 |
| A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland O Rieppel Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological …, 1989 | 145* | 1989 |
| Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. III. Patterns of ossification in the skeleton of Lacerta vivipara Jacquin (Reptilia, Squamata) O Rieppel Field Museum of Natural History, 1992 | 144 | 1992 |
| Patterns of diversity in the reptilian skull O Rieppel, J Hanken, BK Hall The skull 2, 344-390, 1993 | 140 | 1993 |
| Homology, topology, and typology: the history of modern debates O Rieppel Homology, 63-100, 1994 | 139 | 1994 |
