| Inferring predation intensity in the marine fossil record LR Leighton Paleobiology 28 (3), 328-342, 2002 | 159 | 2002 |
| New example of Devonian predatory boreholes and the influence of brachiopod spines on predator success LR Leighton Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 165 (1-2), 53-69, 2001 | 119 | 2001 |
| Reconstructing phylogeny with and without temporal data DL Fox, DC Fisher, LR Leighton Science 284 (5421), 1816-1819, 1999 | 117 | 1999 |
| Reexamining sample size requirements for multivariate, abundance-based community research: when resources are limited, the research does not have to be FL Forcino, LR Leighton, P Twerdy, JF Cahill PLoS One 10 (6), e0128379, 2015 | 77 | 2015 |
| Predation on brachiopods LR Leighton Predator—Prey interactions in the fossil record, 215-237, 2003 | 72 | 2003 |
| Possible latitudinal predation gradient in middle Paleozoic oceans LR Leighton Geology 27 (1), 47-50, 1999 | 64 | 1999 |
| Does global diversity mean anything? GJ Vermeij, LR Leighton Paleobiology 29 (1), 3-7, 2003 | 62 | 2003 |
| Boreholes in Mississippian spiriferide brachiopods and their implications for Paleozoic gastropod drilling TK Baumiller, LR Leighton, DL Thompson Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 147 (3-4), 283-289, 1999 | 62 | 1999 |
| Morphological response of prey to drilling predation in the Middle Devonian LR Leighton Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 201 (3-4), 221-234, 2003 | 51 | 2003 |
| Gastropod shell repair tracks predator abundance ES Stafford, CL Tyler, LR Leighton Marine ecology 36 (4), 1176-1184, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Detecting competition in the fossil record: support for character displacement among Ordovician brachiopods CL Tyler, LR Leighton Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 307 (1-4), 205-217, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| Vermeij crushing analysis: a new old technique for estimating crushing predation in gastropod assemblages ES Stafford, LR Leighton Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 305 (1-4), 123-137, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| Variation in the effects of ocean acidification on shell growth and strength in two intertidal gastropods KM Barclay, B Gaylord, BM Jellison, P Shukla, E Sanford, LR Leighton Marine Ecology Progress Series 626, 109-121, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Constraining functional hypotheses: controls on the morphology of the concavo‐convex brachiopod Rafinesquina LR Leighton Lethaia 31 (4), 293-307, 1998 | 41 | 1998 |
| Caedichnus, a new ichnogenus representing predatory attack on the gastropod shell aperture ES Stafford, GP Dietl, MP Gingras, LR Leighton Ichnos 22 (2), 87-102, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Environmental distribution of spinose brachiopods from the Devonian of New York: test of the soft-substrate hypothesis LR Leighton Palaios 15 (3), 184-193, 2000 | 39 | 2000 |
| Influence of spatiotemporal scale on the interpretation of paleocommunity structure: lateral variation in the Imperial Formation of California CM Redman, LR Leighton, SA Schellenberg, CN Gale, JL Nielsen, ... Palaios 22 (6), 630-641, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
| Influence of atrypid morphological shape on Devonian episkeletobiont assemblages from the lower Genshaw formation of the Traverse Group of Michigan: a geometric morphometric … R Bose, CL Schneider, LR Leighton, PD Polly Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 310 (3-4), 427-441, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| The latitudinal diversity gradient through deep time: testing the “Age of the Tropics” hypothesis using Carboniferous productidine brachiopods LR Leighton Evolutionary Ecology 19, 563-581, 2005 | 35 | 2005 |
| The role of gastropod shell composition and microstructure in resisting dissolution caused by ocean acidification KM Barclay, MK Gingras, ST Packer, LR Leighton Marine Environmental Research 162, 105105, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
