| The timescale of early land plant evolution JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark, D Edwards, P Kenrick, S Pressel, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (10), E2274-E2283, 2018 | 876 | 2018 |
| The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards, P Kenrick, ... Current Biology 28 (5), 733-745. e2, 2018 | 473 | 2018 |
| Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras D Edwards, JL Morris, JB Richardson, P Kenrick New Phytologist 202 (1), 50-78, 2014 | 159 | 2014 |
| The origin and early evolution of vascular plant shoots and leaves CJ Harrison, JL Morris Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 …, 2018 | 123 | 2018 |
| Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris roots signal revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests WE Stein, CM Berry, JL Morris, LVA Hernick, F Mannolini, C Ver Straeten, ... Current biology 30 (3), 421-431. e2, 2020 | 111 | 2020 |
| Investigating Devonian trees as geo‐engineers of past climates: linking palaeosols to palaeobotany and experimental geobiology JL Morris, JR Leake, WE Stein, CM Berry, JEA Marshall, CH Wellman, ... Palaeontology 58 (5), 787-801, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Piecing together the eophytes–a new group of ancient plants containing cryptospores D Edwards, JL Morris, L Axe, JG Duckett, S Pressel, P Kenrick New Phytologist 233 (3), 1440-1455, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| Lower Devonian plant and spore assemblages from Lower Old Red Sandstone strata of Tredomen Quarry, South Wales JL Morris, JB Richardson, D Edwards Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| An analysis of vegetational change in the Lower Devonian: new data from the Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland, UK JL Morris, D Edwards Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211, 28-54, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Picking up the pieces: New charcoalified plant mesofossils (eophytes) from a Lower Devonian Lagerstӓtte in the Welsh Borderland, UK D Edwards, JL Morris, L Axe, JG Duckett Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 297, 104567, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| Further insights into trilete spore producers from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, UK JL Morris, D Edwards, JB Richardson, L Axe, KL Davies Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 185, 35-63, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Earliest record of transfer cells in Lower Devonian plants D Edwards, JL Morris, L Axe, WA Taylor, JG Duckett, P Kenrick, S Pressel New Phytologist 233 (3), 1456-1465, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
| New plant taxa from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, with a hypothesis on the relationship between hilate and trilete spore producers JL Morris, D Edwards, JB Richardson, L Axe, KL Davies Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Evolution of phenotypic disparity in the plant kingdom JW Clark, AJ Hetherington, JL Morris, S Pressel, JG Duckett, MN Puttick, ... Nature Plants 9 (10), 1618-1626, 2023 | 20 | 2023 |
| Siluro-Devonian landscapes of southern Britain: the stability and nature of early vascular plant habitats JL Morris, VP Wright, D Edwards Journal of the Geological Society 169 (2), 173-190, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| New dyad-producing plants from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland JL Morris, D Edwards, JB Richardson, L Axe Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (4), 569-595, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Anatomically preserved Silurian ‘nematophytes’ from the Welsh Borderland (UK) D Edwards, R Honegger, L Axe, JL Morris Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 187 (2), 272-291, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| Carbon isotopic evidence for organic matter oxidation in soils of the Old Red Sandstone (Silurian to Devonian, South Wales, UK) AT Brasier, JL Morris, RD Hillier Journal of the Geological Society 171 (5), 621-634, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Reply to Hedges et al.: accurate timetrees do indeed require accurate calibrations JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark, D Edwards, P Kenrick, S Pressel, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (41), E9512-E9513, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| The advantages and frustrations of a plant Lagerstätte as illustrated by a new taxon from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland, UK JL Morris, D Edwards, JB Richardson Transformative Paleobotany, 49-67, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |