| Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur N Ibrahim, PC Sereno, C Dal Sasso, S Maganuco, M Fabbri, DM Martill, ... Science 345 (6204), 1613-1616, 2014 | 243 | 2014 |
| Exceptional soft-tissue preservation in a theropod dinosaur from Italy CD Sasso, M Signore Nature 392 (6674), 383-387, 1998 | 201 | 1998 |
| New information on the skull of the enigmatic theropod Spinosaurus, with remarks on its size and affinities CD Sasso, S Maganuco, E Buffetaut, MA Mendez Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (4), 888-896, 2005 | 176 | 2005 |
| Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur N Ibrahim, S Maganuco, C Dal Sasso, M Fabbri, M Auditore, G Bindellini, ... Nature 581 (7806), 67-70, 2020 | 97 | 2020 |
| Pulmonary function and metabolic physiology of theropod dinosaurs JA Ruben, C Dal Sasso, NR Geist, WJ Hillenius, TD Jones, M Signore Science 283 (5401), 514-516, 1999 | 95 | 1999 |
| Besanosaurus leptorhynchus n. gen. n. sp., a new shastasaurid ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of Besano (Lombardy, N. Italy) C Dal Sasso, G Pinna Società Italiana di scienze naturali, Museo Civico di storia naturale di Milano, 1996 | 87 | 1996 |
| Subaqueous foraging among carnivorous dinosaurs M Fabbri, G Navalón, RBJ Benson, D Pol, J O’Connor, BAS Bhullar, ... Nature 603 (7903), 852-857, 2022 | 51 | 2022 |
| Aphanizocnemus libanensis n. gen. n. sp., a new dolichosaur (Reptilia, Varanoidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon C DalSasso, G Pinna Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 1997 | 46 | 1997 |
| The oldest ceratosaurian (Dinosauria: Theropoda), from the Lower Jurassic of Italy, sheds light on the evolution of the three-fingered hand of birds C Dal Sasso, S Maganuco, A Cau PeerJ 6, e5976, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| Dinosaurs of Italy C Dal Sasso Comptes Rendus Palevol 2 (1), 45-66, 2003 | 42 | 2003 |
| Soft-tissue preservation in a 95 million year old marine lizard: form, function, and aquatic adaptation MW Caldwell, CD Sasso Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (4), 980-985, 2004 | 39 | 2004 |
| First sauropod bones from Italy offer new insights on the radiation of Titanosauria between Africa and Europe C Dal Sasso, G Pierangelini, F Famiani, A Cau, U Nicosia Cretaceous Research 64, 88-109, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| Razanandrongobe sakalavae, a gigantic mesoeucrocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of Madagascar, is the oldest known notosuchian C Dal Sasso, G Pasini, G Fleury, S Maganuco PeerJ 5, e3481, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Marine reptiles (Thalattosuchia) from the early Jurassic of Lombardy (northern Italy) M Delfino, C Dal Sasso Geobios 39 (3), 346-354, 2006 | 29 | 2006 |
| New findings reveal that the Middle Triassic ichthyosaur Mixosaurus cornalianus is the oldest amniote with a dorsal fin S Renesto, C Dal Sasso, F Fogliazza, C Ragni Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (3), 511-522, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Cranial anatomy of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus Dal Sasso & Pinna, 1996 (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Italy … G Bindellini, AS Wolniewicz, F Miedema, TM Scheyer, C Dal Sasso PeerJ 9, e11179, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| Dinosauri italiani C Dal Sasso, G Brillante Marsilio, 2001 | 25 | 2001 |
| Aquatic varanoid reptiles from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) lithographic limestones of Lebanon C Dal Sasso, S Renesto Rivista della Museo Civico di Scienze Naturale,“E. Caffi,” Bergamo 20, 63-69, 1999 | 25 | 1999 |
| Late Triassic (early-middle Carnian) chirotherian tracks from the Val Sabbia Sandstone (eastern Lombardy, Brescian Prealps, Northern Italy) FM Petti Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 115 (3), 277-290, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| I Vertebrati continentali del Paleozoico e Mesozoico. U Nicosia, M Avanzini, C Barbera, MA Conti, F Dalla Vecchia, ... Paleontologia dei Vertebrati in Italia 6, 41-66, 2005 | 22 | 2005 |
