| Early Cambrian fossils from south Australia S Bengtson Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 1990 | 714 | 1990 |
| Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian stage in Yunnan province, South China Q Yi, S Bengtson Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage …, 1989 | 406 | 1989 |
| Predatorial borings in late Precambrian mineralized exoskeletons S Bengtson, Y Zhao Science 257 (5068), 367-369, 1992 | 364 | 1992 |
| Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos PCJ Donoghue, S Bengtson, X Dong, NJ Gostling, T Huldtgren, ... Nature 442 (7103), 680-683, 2006 | 331 | 2006 |
| Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago AE Albani, S Bengtson, DE Canfield, A Bekker, R Macchiarelli, A Mazurier, ... Nature 466 (7302), 100-104, 2010 | 324 | 2010 |
| Fossilized metazoan embryos from the earliest Cambrian S Bengtson, Y Zhao Science 277 (5332), 1645-1648, 1997 | 309 | 1997 |
| Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae S Bengtson, T Sallstedt, V Belivanova, M Whitehouse PLoS Biology 15 (3), e2000735, 2017 | 264 | 2017 |
| Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization A Kouchinsky, S Bengtson, B Runnegar, C Skovsted, M Steiner, ... Geological Magazine 149 (2), 221-251, 2012 | 237 | 2012 |
| Cellular and subcellular structure of Neoproterozoic animal embryos JW Hagadorn, S Xiao, PCJ Donoghue, S Bengtson, NJ Gostling, ... Science 314 (5797), 291-294, 2006 | 216 | 2006 |
| Origins and early evolution of predation S Bengtson The Paleontological Society Papers 8, 289-318, 2002 | 216 | 2002 |
| The structure of some Middle Cambrian conodonts, and the early evolution of conodont structure and function S Bengtson Lethaia 9 (2), 185-206, 1976 | 201 | 1976 |
| Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales EM Friis, PR Crane, KR Pedersen, S Bengtson, PCJ Donoghue, ... Nature 450 (7169), 549-552, 2007 | 200 | 2007 |
| Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old B Rasmussen, S Bengtson, IR Fletcher, NJ McNaughton Science 296 (5570), 1112-1115, 2002 | 188 | 2002 |
| Early life on Earth S Bengtson Columbia University Press, 1994 | 188 | 1994 |
| Fossilized nuclei and germination structures identify Ediacaran “animal embryos” as encysting protists T Huldtgren, JA Cunningham, C Yin, M Stampanoni, F Marone, ... Science 334 (6063), 1696-1699, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
| The origin of animals: can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled? JA Cunningham, AG Liu, S Bengtson, PCJ Donoghue BioEssays 39 (1), 1-12, 2017 | 174 | 2017 |
| Open data and digital morphology TG Davies, IA Rahman, S Lautenschlager, JA Cunningham, RJ Asher, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1852), 20170194, 2017 | 167 | 2017 |
| Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of Earth’s atmosphere DE Canfield, L Ngombi-Pemba, EU Hammarlund, S Bengtson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (42), 16736-16741, 2013 | 167 | 2013 |
| The advent of animal skeletons S Bengtson Early life on Earth, 412-425, 1994 | 149 | 1994 |
| Cambrian predators: possible evidence from boreholes SC Morris, S Bengtson Journal of Paleontology 68 (1), 1-23, 1994 | 143 | 1994 |
