| An Australian phanerozoic timescale GC Young, JR Laurie (No Title), 1996 | 243 | 1996 |
| Biogeography of Devonian vertebrates GC Young Alcheringa 5 (3), 225-243, 1981 | 154 | 1981 |
| The relationships of placoderm fishes GC Young Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 88 (1), 1-57, 1986 | 153 | 1986 |
| Live birth in the Devonian period JA Long, K Trinajstic, GC Young, T Senden Nature 453 (7195), 650-652, 2008 | 149 | 2008 |
| An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins JA Long, GC Young, T Holland, TJ Senden, EMG Fitzgerald Nature 444 (7116), 199-202, 2006 | 141 | 2006 |
| A new Early Devonian placoderm from New South Wales, Australia, with a discussion of placoderm phylogeny GC Young | 139 | 1980 |
| Placoderms (armored fish): dominant vertebrates of the Devonian period GC Young Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 38, 523-550, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| Copulation in antiarch placoderms and the origin of gnathostome internal fertilization JA Long, E Mark-Kurik, Z Johanson, MSY Lee, GC Young, Z Min, ... Nature 517 (7533), 196-199, 2015 | 135 | 2015 |
| Devonian vertebrate distribution patterns and cladistic analysis of palaegeographic hypotheses GC Young Geological Society, London, Memoirs 12 (1), 243-255, 1990 | 126 | 1990 |
| Devonian sharks from south-eastern Australia and Antarctica GC Young | 126 | 1982 |
| Antiarchs (placoderm fishes) from the Devonian Aztec siltstone, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica GC Young Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, Paläozoologie, Stratigraphie 202 (1-4), 1-125, 1988 | 125 | 1988 |
| Crossopterygian fishes from the Devonian of Antarctica: systematics, relationships, and biogeographic significance GC Young, JA Long, A Ritchie New South Wales Government Publications, NSW Government Information Service, 1992 | 110 | 1992 |
| Middle Palaeozoic macrovertebrate biostratigraphy of eastern Gondwana GC Young Palaeozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography 9, 208-251, 1993 | 106 | 1993 |
| Placoderm anatomy and phylogeny: new insights D Goujet, GC Young Recent advances in the origin and early radiation of vertebrates, 109-126, 2004 | 102 | 2004 |
| New information on the structure and relationships of Buchanosteus (Placodermi: Euarthrodira) from the Early Devonian of New South Wales GC Young Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 66 (4), 309-352, 1979 | 102 | 1979 |
| A new fish fauna of Middle Devonian age from the Taemas/Wee Jasper region of New South Wales GC Young, JD Gorter Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 209, 83-147, 1981 | 100 | 1981 |
| The most primitive osteichthyan braincase? AM Basden, GC Young, MI Coates, A Ritchie Nature 403 (6766), 185-188, 2000 | 99 | 2000 |
| Reconstruction of the faws and braincase in the Devonian placoderm fish Bothriolepis GC Young Palaeontology 27 (3), 635-661, 1984 | 87 | 1984 |
| A primitive actinopterygian neurocranium from the Early Devonian of southeastern Australia AM Basden, GC Young Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (4), 754-766, 2001 | 84 | 2001 |
| Ordovician microvertebrate remains from the Amadeus Basin, central Australia GC Young Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17 (1), 1-25, 1997 | 80 | 1997 |
