| Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type P Van Roy, PJ Orr, JP Botting, LA Muir, J Vinther, B Lefebvre, K El Hariri, ... Nature 465 (7295), 215-218, 2010 | 345 | 2010 |
| Early sponge evolution: a review and phylogenetic framework JP Botting, LA Muir Palaeoworld 27 (1), 1-29, 2018 | 112 | 2018 |
| Welsh gold: A new exceptionally preserved pyritized Ordovician biota JP Botting, LA Muir, MD Sutton, T Barnie Geology 39 (9), 879, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |
| Flourishing sponge-based ecosystems after the end-Ordovician mass extinction JP Botting, LA Muir, Y Zhang, X Ma, J Ma, L Wang, J Zhang, Y Song, ... Current Biology 27 (4), 556-562, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
| An Ordovician variation on Burgess Shale-type biotas JP Botting, LA Muir, N Jordan, C Upton Scientific Reports 5 (1), 9947, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules in Lenica sp. from the Early Cambrian of South China JP Botting, LA Muir, S Xiao, X Li, JP Lin Lethaia 45 (4), 463-475, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Relationships of the Cambrian protomonaxonida (Porifera) JP Botting, LA Muir, JP Lin | 36 | 2013 |
| Sponge-dominated offshore benthic ecosystems across South China in the aftermath of the end-Ordovician mass extinction JP Botting, LA Muir, W Wang, W Qie, J Tan, L Zhang, Y Zhang Gondwana Research 61, 150-171, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Spicule structure and affinities of the Late Ordovician hexactinellid-like sponge Cyathophycus loydelli from the Llanfawr Mudstones Lagerstätte, Wales JP Botting, LA Muir Lethaia 46 (4), 454-469, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Chapter 8 Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian non-stromatoporoid Porifera LA Muir, JP Botting, MG Carrera, M Beresi Geological Society, London, Memoirs 38 (1), 81-95, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Unravelling causal components of the Ordovician Radiation: the Builth Inlier (central Wales) as a case study JP BOTTING, LA MUIR Lethaia 41 (2), 111-125, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| Fauna and ecology of the Holothurian Bed, Llandrindod, Wales, UK (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician), and the oldest articulated holothurian JP Botting, LA Muir | 30 | 2012 |
| Diverse middle Ordovician palaeoscolecidan worms from the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier of central Wales JP Botting, LA Muir, P Van Roy, DEB Bates, C Upton Palaeontology 55 (3), 501-528, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and evolution of Lower Ordovician conulariids and Sphenothallus (Medusozoa, Cnidaria), with emphasis on the Fezouata Shale of southeastern Morocco H Van Iten, L Muir, MG Simões, JM Leme, AC Marques, N Yoder Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 460, 170-178, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Palaeoscolecidan worms and a possible nematode from the Early Ordovician of South China LA Muir, TW Ng, XF Li, YD Zhang, JP Lin Palaeoworld 23 (1), 15-24, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| AT remadocian (E arly O rdovician) palaeoscolecidan worm from graptolitic shales in H unan P rovince, S outh C hina W Wang, LA Muir, JP Botting, H Feng, T Servais, L Li Palaeontology 57 (3), 657-671, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| An outline of the distribution and diversity of Porifera in the Ordovician Builth Inlier (Wales, UK) LA Muir, JP Botting Palaeoworld 24 (1-2), 176-190, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Survival of Burgess Shale-type animals in a Middle Ordovician deep-water setting TW Hearing, DA Legg, JP Botting, LA Muir, P McDermott, S Faulkner, ... Journal of the Geological Society 173 (4), 628-633, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Ordovician conulariids (Scyphozoa) from the Upper Tiouririne Formation (Katian), eastern Anti-Atlas Mountains, southern Morocco H Van Iten, JC Gutiérrez-Marco, LA Muir, MG Simões, JM Leme | 20 | 2022 |
| Discovery of missing link between demosponges and hexactinellids confirms palaeontological model of sponge evolution JP Botting, Y Zhang, LA Muir Scientific Reports 7 (1), 5286, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
