| Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs SL Brusatte, MJ Benton, M Ruta, GT Lloyd Science 321 (5895), 1485-1488, 2008 | 460 | 2008 |
| Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution GT Lloyd, KE Davis, D Pisani, JE Tarver, M Ruta, M Sakamoto, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1650), 2483-2490, 2008 | 375 | 2008 |
| Early tetrapod relationships revisited M Ruta, MI Coates, DLJ Quicke Biological Reviews 78 (2), 251-345, 2003 | 340 | 2003 |
| The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics MT Young, SL Brusatte, M Ruta, MB de Andrade Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4), 801-859, 2010 | 255 | 2010 |
| Dates, nodes and character conflict: addressing the lissamphibian origin problem M Ruta, MI Coates Journal of systematic Palaeontology 5 (1), 69-122, 2007 | 232 | 2007 |
| Fins to limbs: what the fossils say1 MI Coates, JE Jeffery, M Ruta Evolution & development 4 (5), 390-401, 2002 | 158 | 2002 |
| The first 50 Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity SL Brusatte, MJ Benton, M Ruta, GT Lloyd Biology letters 4 (6), 733-736, 2008 | 153 | 2008 |
| Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. I. Rapid initial diversification followed by decrease in rates of character change M Ruta, PJ Wagner, MI Coates Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1598), 2107-2111, 2006 | 150 | 2006 |
| The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity M Ruta, J Botha-Brink, SA Mitchell, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1769), 20131865, 2013 | 132 | 2013 |
| Resetting the evolution of marine reptiles at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary PM Thorne, M Ruta, MJ Benton Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (20), 8339-8344, 2011 | 130 | 2011 |
| Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids M Ruta, KD Angielczyk, J Fröbisch, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1768), 20131071, 2013 | 117 | 2013 |
| Ever since Owen: changing perspectives on the early evolution of tetrapods MI Coates, M Ruta, M Friedman Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 39, 571-592, 2008 | 114 | 2008 |
| Macroevolutionary patterns in the evolutionary radiation of archosaurs (Tetrapoda: Diapsida) SL Brusatte, MJ Benton, GT Lloyd, M Ruta, SC Wang Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2010 | 107 | 2010 |
| What defines an adaptive radiation? Macroevolutionary diversification dynamics of an exceptionally species-rich continental lizard radiation D Pincheira-Donoso, LP Harvey, M Ruta BMC Evolutionary Biology 15, 1-13, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
| A supertree of Temnospondyli: cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods M Ruta, D Pisani, GT Lloyd, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1629), 3087-3095, 2007 | 100 | 2007 |
| A supertree of early tetrapods M Ruta, JE Jeffery, MI Coates Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2003 | 93 | 2003 |
| The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality MJ Benton, M Ruta, AM Dunhill, M Sakamoto Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 372, 18-41, 2013 | 90 | 2013 |
| The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data MA Wills, S Gerber, M Ruta, M Hughes Journal of evolutionary biology 25 (10), 2056-2076, 2012 | 80 | 2012 |
| Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna JA Clack, CE Bennett, DK Carpenter, SJ Davies, NC Fraser, TI Kearsey, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (1), 0002, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| Nice snake, shame about the legs M Coates, M Ruta Trends in ecology & evolution 15 (12), 503-507, 2000 | 77 | 2000 |
