| Paleozoic base maps CR Scotese, RK Bambach, C Barton, R Van der Voo, AM Ziegler The Journal of Geology 87 (3), 217-277, 1979 | 855 | 1979 |
| Comparative Earth history and Late Permian mass extinction AH Knoll, RK Bambach, DE Canfield, JP Grotzinger Science 273 (5274), 452-457, 1996 | 729 | 1996 |
| Paleophysiology and end-Permian mass extinction AH Knoll, RK Bambach, JL Payne, S Pruss, WW Fischer Earth and Planetary Science Letters 256 (3-4), 295-313, 2007 | 621 | 2007 |
| When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time MJ Benton Thames & Hudson, 2003 | 502 | 2003 |
| Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification J Alroy, CR Marshall, RK Bambach, K Bezusko, M Foote, FT Fürsich, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (11), 6261-6266, 2001 | 499 | 2001 |
| Phanerozoic marine diversity and the fossil record JJ Sepkoski, RK Bambach, DM Raup, JW Valentine Nature 293 (5832), 435-437, 1981 | 460 | 1981 |
| Origination, extinction, and mass depletions of marine diversity RK Bambach, AH Knoll, SC Wang Paleobiology 30 (4), 522-542, 2004 | 455 | 2004 |
| Species richness in marine benthic habitats through the Phanerozoic RK Bambach Paleobiology, 152-167, 1977 | 391 | 1977 |
| Phanerozoic biodiversity mass extinctions RK Bambach Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 34, 127-155, 2006 | 385 | 2006 |
| Paleozoic paleogeography AM Ziegler, CR Scotese, WS McKerrow, ME Johnson, RK Bambach Annual review of earth and planetary sciences 7 (1), 473-502, 1979 | 346 | 1979 |
| The composition and structure of Lower Silurian marine communities AM Ziegler, LRM Cocks, RK Bambach Lethaia 1 (1), 1-27, 1968 | 330 | 1968 |
| Ecospace utilization and guilds in marine communities through the Phanerozoic RK Bambach Biotic interactions in recent and fossil benthic communities, 719-746, 1983 | 323 | 1983 |
| Seafood through time: changes in biomass, energetics, and productivity in the marine ecosystem RK Bambach Paleobiology, 372-397, 1993 | 313 | 1993 |
| Autecology and the filling of ecospace: key metazoan radiations RK Bambach, AM Bush, DH Erwin Palaeontology 50 (1), 1-22, 2007 | 243 | 2007 |
| Anatomical and ecological constraints on Phanerozoic animal diversity in the marine realm RK Bambach, AH Knoll, JJ Sepkoski Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (10), 6854-6859, 2002 | 237 | 2002 |
| Before Pangea: the geographies of the Paleozoic world KR Bambach, CR Scotese, AM Ziegler American Scientist 68 (1), 26-38, 1980 | 201 | 1980 |
| Secular changes in Phanerozoic event bedding and the biological overprint JJ Sepkoski Jr Cycles and events in stratigraphy, 298-312, 1991 | 190 | 1991 |
| Energetics in the global marinefauna: A connection between terrestrial diversification and change in the marine biosphere RK Bambach Geobios 32 (2), 131-144, 1999 | 182 | 1999 |
| Classes and adaptive variety: the ecology of diversification in marine faunas through the Phanerozoic RK Bambach Phanerozoic diversity patterns, 191-254, 2014 | 166 | 2014 |
| Clonal growth, algal symbiosis, and reef formation by corals AG Coates, JBC Jackson Paleobiology, 363-378, 1987 | 162 | 1987 |
