| Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota SE Gabbott, H Xian-Guang, MJ Norry, DJ Siveter Geology 32 (10), 901-904, 2004 | 257 | 2004 |
| Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation RS Sansom, SE Gabbott, MA Purnell Nature 463 (7282), 797-800, 2010 | 241 | 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 | 217 | 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 | 180 | 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 | 129 | 2015 |
| 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 | 107 | 2011 |
| An early Cambrian greenhouse climate TW Hearing, THP Harvey, M Williams, MJ Leng, AL Lamb, PR Wilby, ... Science advances 4 (5), eaar5690, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| 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 | 88 | 2008 |
| Taphonomy of the Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte: an example of soft tissue preservation in clay minerals SE Gabbott Palaeontology 41, 631-668, 1998 | 85 | 1998 |
| 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 | 83 | 2010 |
| 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 | 78 | 1995 |
| 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 | 77 | 2019 |
| 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 | 76 | 2016 |
| 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 | 75 | 2016 |
| Atlas of vertebrate decay: a visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation RS Sansom, SE Gabbott, MA Purnell Palaeontology 56 (3), 457-474, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Orthoconic cephalopods and associated fauna from the late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagersta¨tte, South Africa SE Gabbott Palaeontology 42 (1), 123-148, 1999 | 75 | 1999 |
| The systematics and phylogenetic relationships of vetulicolians RJ Aldridge, HOU Xian‐Guang, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter, SE Gabbott Palaeontology 50 (1), 131-168, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| 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 | 67 | 2017 |
| Sedimentation of the phyllopod bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation of British Columbia SE Gabbott, J Zalasiewicz, D Collins Journal of the Geological Society 165 (1), 307-318, 2008 | 66 | 2008 |
| A refined chronology for the Cambrian succession of southern Britain THP Harvey, M Williams, DJ Condon, PR Wilby, DJ Siveter, AWA Rushton, ... Journal of the Geological Society 168 (3), 705-716, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |