| The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs MC Langer, MD Ezcurra, JS Bittencourt, FE Novas Biological Reviews 85 (1), 55-110, 2010 | 349 | 2010 |
| The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms MD Ezcurra PeerJ 4, e1778, 2016 | 316 | 2016 |
| Evolution of the carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous: the evidence from Patagonia FE Novas, FL Agnolín, MD Ezcurra, J Porfiri, JI Canale Cretaceous Research 45, 174-215, 2013 | 240 | 2013 |
| 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 |
| A new global palaeobiogeographical model for the late Mesozoic and early Tertiary MD Ezcurra, FL Agnolín Systematic Biology 61 (4), 553-566, 2012 | 188 | 2012 |
| A new early dinosaur (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Argentina: a reassessment of dinosaur origin and phylogeny MD Ezcurra Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 (3), 371-425, 2010 | 176 | 2010 |
| The origin and early evolution of Sauria: reassessing the Permian saurian fossil record and the timing of the crocodile-lizard divergence MD Ezcurra, TM Scheyer, RJ Butler PloS one 9 (2), e89165, 2014 | 161 | 2014 |
| Deep faunistic turnovers preceded the rise of dinosaurs in southwestern Pangaea MD Ezcurra, LE Fiorelli, AG Martinelli, S Rocher, MB von Baczko, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (10), 1477-1483, 2017 | 158 | 2017 |
| A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities FL Agnolin, MD Ezcurra, DF Pais, SW Salisbury Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 (2), 257-300, 2010 | 150 | 2010 |
| Untangling the dinosaur family tree MC Langer, MD Ezcurra, OWM Rauhut, MJ Benton, F Knoll, BW McPhee, ... Nature 551 (7678), E1-E3, 2017 | 139 | 2017 |
| A review of the systematic position of the dinosauriform archosaur Eucoelophysis baldwini Sullivan & Lucas, 1999 from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico, USA MD EZCuRRA Geodiversitas 28 (4), 649-684, 2006 | 138 | 2006 |
| Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria MD Ezcurra, SJ Nesbitt, M Bronzati, FM Dalla Vecchia, FL Agnolin, ... Nature 588 (7838), 445-449, 2020 | 123 | 2020 |
| The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction MD Ezcurra, RJ Butler Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 (1880), 20180361, 2018 | 118 | 2018 |
| Orkoraptor burkei nov. gen. et sp., a large theropod from the Maastrichtian Pari Aike Formation, Southern Patagonia, Argentina FE Novas, MD Ezcurra, A Lecuona Cretaceous Research 29 (3), 468-480, 2008 | 114 | 2008 |
| Juvenile specimen of Megaraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) sheds light about tyrannosauroid radiation JD Porfiri, FE Novas, JO Calvo, FL Agnolín, MD Ezcurra, IA Cerda Cretaceous Research 51, 35-55, 2014 | 113 | 2014 |
| New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India FE Novas, MD Ezcurra, S Chatterjee, TS Kutty Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2010 | 105 | 2010 |
| An unusual new archosauriform from the Middle–Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the monophyly of Doswelliidae JB Desojo, MD Ezcurra, CL Schultz Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (4), 839-871, 2011 | 104 | 2011 |
| A Megaraptor-like theropod (Dinosauria: Tetanurae) in Australia: support for faunal exchange across eastern and western Gondwana in the Mid-Cretaceous ND Smith, PJ Makovicky, FL Agnolin, MD Ezcurra, DF Pais, SW Salisbury Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1647), 2085-2093, 2008 | 99 | 2008 |
| An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile FE Novas, L Salgado, M Suárez, FL Agnolín, MD Ezcurra, NR Chimento, ... Nature 522 (7556), 331-334, 2015 | 95 | 2015 |
| Biogeography of Triassic tetrapods: evidence for provincialism and driven sympatric cladogenesis in the early evolution of modern tetrapod lineages MD Ezcurra Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1693), 2547-2552, 2010 | 92 | 2010 |
Richard J. ButlerProfessor of Palaeobiology, University of BirminghamVerified email at bham.ac.uk
