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| The first named Ediacaran body fossil, Aspidella Terranovica JG Gehling, GM Narbonne, MM Anderson Palaeontology 43 (3), 427-456, 2000 | 342 | 2000 |
| Long expected sponges from the Neoproterozoic Ediacara fauna of South Australia JG Gehling, JK Rigby Journal of Paleontology 70 (2), 185-195, 1996 | 319 | 1996 |
| The rise of animals: evolution and diversification of the kingdom Animalia MA Fedonkin JHU Press, 2007 | 309 | 2007 |
| The case for Ediacaran fossil roots to the metazoan tree JG GEHLING Geological Society of India Memoir 20, 181-224, 1991 | 266 | 1991 |
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| Trace fossils and substrates of the terminal Proterozoic–Cambrian transition: implications for the record of early bilaterians and sediment mixing ML Droser, S Jensen, JG Gehling Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (20), 12572-12576, 2002 | 230 | 2002 |
| A critical look at the Ediacaran trace fossil record S Jensen, ML Droser, JG Gehling Neoproterozoic geobiology and paleobiology, 115-157, 2006 | 220 | 2006 |
| Paleoecology of the oldest known animal communities: Ediacaran assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland ME Clapham, GM Narbonne, JG Gehling Paleobiology 29 (4), 527-544, 2003 | 217 | 2003 |
| Burrowing below the basal Cambrian GSSP, fortune head, Newfoundland JG Gehling, S Jensen, ML Droser, PM Myrow, GM Narbonne Geological Magazine 138 (2), 213-218, 2001 | 207 | 2001 |
| Environmental interpretation and a sequence stratigraphic framework for the terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Member within the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia JG Gehling Precambrian Research 100 (1-3), 65-95, 2000 | 199 | 2000 |
| How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time? JG Gehling, ML Droser Geology 41 (4), 447-450, 2013 | 197 | 2013 |
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| Trace fossil preservation and the early evolution of animals S Jensen, ML Droser, JG Gehling Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 220 (1-2), 19-29, 2005 | 193 | 2005 |
| Complex trace fossils from the terminal Proterozoic of Namibia S Jensen, BZ Saylor, JG Gehling, GJB Germs Geology 28 (2), 143-146, 2000 | 191 | 2000 |
| Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia M Zhu, JG Gehling, S Xiao, Y Zhao, ML Droser Geology 36 (11), 867-870, 2008 | 183 | 2008 |
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