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| Altered river morphology in South Africa related to the Permian-Triassic extinction PD Ward, DR Montgomery, R Smith Science 289 (5485), 1740-1743, 2000 | 402 | 2000 |
| Abrupt and gradual extinction among Late Permian land vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa PD Ward, J Botha, R Buick, MO De Kock, DH Erwin, GH Garrison, ... Science 307 (5710), 709-714, 2005 | 398 | 2005 |
| Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira SJ Nesbitt, CA Sidor, RB Irmis, KD Angielczyk, RMH Smith, LA Tsuji Nature 464 (7285), 95-98, 2010 | 314 | 2010 |
| A review of the stratigraphy and sedimentary environments of the Karoo-aged basins of Southern Africa RMH Smith, PG Eriksson, WJ Botha Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 16 (1-2), 143-169, 1993 | 276 | 1993 |
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| Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South Africa RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 396, 99-118, 2014 | 216 | 2014 |
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| The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, MD Ezcurra, PM Barrett, MR Stocker, KD Angielczyk, ... Nature 544 (7651), 484-487, 2017 | 193 | 2017 |
| Mass producing an efficient NIR spectrograph JC Wilson, CP Henderson, TL Herter, K Matthews, MF Skrutskie, ... Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy 5492, 1295-1305, 2004 | 188 | 2004 |
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| Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction CA Sidor, DA Vilhena, KD Angielczyk, AK Huttenlocker, SJ Nesbitt, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (20), 8129-8133, 2013 | 174 | 2013 |
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| Rapidly decaying supernova 2010X: a candidate “. Ia” explosion MM Kasliwal, SR Kulkarni, A Gal-Yam, O Yaron, RM Quimby, EO Ofek, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 723 (1), L98, 2010 | 171 | 2010 |
