| Fishes of the World, 5th Edition JS Nelson, TC Grande, MVH Wilson John Wiley & Sons, 2016 | 18772* | 2016 |
| Paleoenvironmental contexts and taphonomic modes AK Behrensmeyer, RW Hook, CE Badgley, JA Boy, RE Chapman, ... Trerrestrial Ecosystem through Time, Evolutionary Paleoecology of …, 1992 | 471* | 1992 |
| Paleoenvironmental contexts and taphonomic modes AK Behrensmeyer, RW Hook, CE Badgley, JA Boy, RE Chapman, ... Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of …, 1992 | 471* | 1992 |
| Fishes of the world John Wiley and Sons JS Nelson, TC Grande, MVH Wilson Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2006 | 238 | 2006 |
| Middle Eocene freshwater fishes from British Columbia MVH Wilson Life Science Contributions Royal Ontario Museum 113, 1-61, 1977 | 196 | 1977 |
| Phylogeny of Osteoglossomorpha GQ Li, MVH Wilson Interrelationships of Fishes, 163-174, 1996 | 146* | 1996 |
| Paleoscene #9: Taphonomic processes: information loss and information gain MVH Wilson Geoscience Canada 15, 131-148, 1988 | 144 | 1988 |
| Eocene lake environments: depth and distance-from-shore variation in fish, insect, and plant assemblages MVH Wilson Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 32, 21-44, 1980 | 104 | 1980 |
| Marine dispersal as a pre‐requisite for Gondwanan vicariance among elements of the galaxiid fish fauna CP Burridge, RM McDowall, D Craw, MVH Wilson, JM Waters Journal of Biogeography 39 (2), 306-321, 2012 | 99 | 2012 |
| Oldest known Esox (Pisces: Esocidae), part of a new Paleocene teleost fauna from Western Canada MVH Wilson Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17 (3), 307-312, 1980 | 98 | 1980 |
| Sudan Black B as a nerve stain for whole cleared fishes GT Filipski, MVH Wilson Copeia, 204-208, 1984 | 89 | 1984 |
| New Silurian and Devonian fork-tailed 'thelodonts' are jawless vertebrates with stomachs and deep bodies MVH Wilson, MW Caldwell Nature Publishing Group 361 (6411), 442-444, 1993 | 84 | 1993 |
| An anoxic event at the Albian-Cenomanian boundary: the Fish Scale marker bed, northern Alberta, Canada DA Leckie, C Singh, J Bloch, MVH Wilson, J Wall Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology 92 (1-2), 139-166, 1992 | 81 | 1992 |
| Reconstruction of ancient lake environments using both autochthonous and allochthonous fossils MVH Wilson Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 62 (1-4), 609-623, 1988 | 81 | 1988 |
| The Furcacaudiformes: a new order of jawless vertebrates with thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils from northern Canada MVH Wilson, MW Caldwell Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 (1), 10-29, 1998 | 79 | 1998 |
| Cretaceous Esocoidei (Teleostei): early radiation of the pikes in North American fresh waters MVH Wilson, DB Brinkman, AG Neuman Journal of Paleontology 66 (5), 839-846, 1992 | 78 | 1992 |
| New teleostome fishes and acanthodian systematics GF Hanke, MVH Wilson Recent advances in the origin and early radiation of vertebrates, 189-216, 2004 | 76 | 2004 |
| Origin and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of Teleosts - Honoring Gloria Arratia JS Nelson, HP Schultze, MVH Wilson München: Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, 480, 2010 | 72* | 2010 |
| Osteoglossomorpha: phylogeny, biogeography, and fossil record and the significance of key African and Chinese fossil taxa MVH Wilson, AM Murray Fishes and the Breakup of Pangaea: Geological Society, London, Special …, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Phylogenetic, biogeographic, and ecological significance of early fossil records of North American freshwater teleostean fishes MVH Wilson, RRG Williams Systematics, historical ecology, and North American freshwater fishes, 224-244, 1992 | 71 | 1992 |
