| The braincase and jaws of a Devonian ‘acanthodian’ and modern gnathostome origins MD Brazeau Nature 457 (7227), 305-308, 2009 | 277 | 2009 |
| The origin and early phylogenetic history of jawed vertebrates MD Brazeau, M Friedman Nature 520 (7548), 490-497, 2015 | 232 | 2015 |
| Problematic character coding methods in morphology and their effects MD Brazeau Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104 (3), 489-498, 2011 | 212 | 2011 |
| Initial radiation of jaws demonstrated stability despite faunal and environmental change PSL Anderson, M Friedman, MD Brazeau, EJ Rayfield Nature 476 (7359), 206-209, 2011 | 165 | 2011 |
| Osteichthyan-like cranial conditions in an Early Devonian stem gnathostome S Giles, M Friedman, MD Brazeau Nature 520 (7545), 82-85, 2015 | 138 | 2015 |
| Tetrapod-like middle ear architecture in a Devonian fish MD Brazeau, PE Ahlberg Nature 439 (7074), 318-321, 2006 | 119 | 2006 |
| A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes M Friedman, MD Brazeau Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (1), 36-56, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| The characters of Palaeozoic jawed vertebrates MD Brazeau, M Friedman Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (4), 779-821, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
| Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia MD Brazeau, S Giles, RP Dearden, A Jerve, Y Ariunchimeg, E Zorig, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 (11), 1477-1484, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
| An algorithm for morphological phylogenetic analysis with inapplicable data MD Brazeau, T Guillerme, MR Smith Systematic biology 68 (4), 619-631, 2019 | 53* | 2019 |
| The hyoid arch and braincase anatomy of Acanthodes support chondrichthyan affinity of ‘acanthodians’ MD Brazeau, V de Winter Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1821), 20152210, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Endoskeletal structure in Cheirolepis (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii), An early ray‐finned fish S Giles, MI Coates, RJ Garwood, MD Brazeau, R Atwood, Z Johanson, ... Palaeontology 58 (5), 849-870, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| A revision of the anatomy of the Early Devonian jawed vertebrate Ptomacanthus anglicus Miles MD Brazeau Palaeontology 55 (2), 355-367, 2012 | 45 | 2012 |
| Sequences, stratigraphy and scenarios: what can we say about the fossil record of the earliest tetrapods? M Friedman, MD Brazeau Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1704), 432-439, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| The pharynx of the stem-chondrichthyan Ptomacanthus and the early evolution of the gnathostome gill skeleton RP Dearden, C Stockey, MD Brazeau Nature Communications 10 (1), 2050, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| X-ray computed tomography library of shark anatomy and lower jaw surface models P Kamminga, PW De Bruin, J Geleijns, MD Brazeau Scientific Data 4 (1), 1-6, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| A new genus of rhizodontid (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation of Nova Scotia, and the evolution of the lower jaws in this group MD Brazeau Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42 (8), 1481-1499, 2005 | 26 | 2005 |
| A three‐dimensional placoderm (stem‐group gnathostome) pharyngeal skeleton and its implications for primitive gnathostome pharyngeal architecture MD Brazeau, M Friedman, A Jerve, RC Atwood Journal of Morphology 278 (9), 1220-1228, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| A jaw-dropping fossil fish M Friedman, MD Brazeau Nature 502 (7470), 175-177, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| A partial lower jaw of a tetrapod from “Romer's Gap” D Chen, Y Alavi, MD Brazeau, H Blom, D Millward, PE Ahlberg Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
Matt FriedmanMuseum of Paleontology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of MichiganAdresse e-mail validée de umich.edu