| Taphonomy and paleobiology AK Behrensmeyer, SM Kidwell, RA Gastaldo Paleobiology 26 (S4), 103-147, 2000 | 899 | 2000 |
| Out of the icehouse into the greenhouse: a late Paleozoic analogue for modern global vegetational change RA Gastaldo, WA DiMichele, HW Pfefferkorn Gsa today, 1996 | 307 | 1996 |
| Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history SF Greb, WA DiMichele, RA Gastaldo | 281 | 2006 |
| Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian plant communities to climate change WA DiMichele, HW Pfefferkorn, RA Gastaldo Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 29 (1), 461-487, 2001 | 274 | 2001 |
| Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems WA DiMichele, RW Hook, R Beerbower, JA Boy, RA Gastaldo, N Hotton III, ... Terrestrial ecosystems through time, 205-325, 1992 | 259 | 1992 |
| Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: a new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa R Prevec, CC Labandeira, J Neveling, RA Gastaldo, CV Looy, M Bamford Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156 (3-4), 454-493, 2009 | 175 | 2009 |
| Confirmation of Carboniferous clastic swamp communities RA Gastaldo Nature 326 (6116), 869-871, 1987 | 149 | 1987 |
| The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record: long term hydrologic controls on preservation RA Gastaldo, TM Demko Taphonomy: Process and bias through time, 249-285, 2011 | 143 | 2011 |
| Is the vertebrate-defined Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the end-Permian marine event? RA Gastaldo, SL Kamo, J Neveling, JW Geissman, M Bamford, CV Looy Geology 43 (10), 939-942, 2015 | 138 | 2015 |
| Taphonomic trends of macrofloral assemblages across the Permian–Triassic boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa RA Gastaldo, R Adendorff, M Bamford, CC Labandeira, J Neveling, ... Palaios 20 (5), 479-497, 2005 | 132 | 2005 |
| Taphonomic and sedimentologic characterization of roof-shale floras RA Gastaldo, HW Pfefferkorn, WA DiMichele | 121 | 1995 |
| Sediment facies, depositional environments, and distribution of phytoclasts in the Recent Mahakam River delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia RA Gastaldo, AY Huc Palaios, 574-590, 1992 | 120 | 1992 |
| Implications on the paleoecology of autochthonous lycopods in clastic sedimentary environments of the Early Pennsylvanian of Alabama RA Gastaldo Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 53 (2-4), 191-212, 1986 | 116 | 1986 |
| Origin, characteristics, and provenance of plant macrodetritus in a Holocene crevasse splay, Mobile Delta, Alabama RA Gastaldo, DP Douglass, SM McCarroll Palaios, 229-240, 1987 | 110 | 1987 |
| Regenerative growth in fossil horsetails following burial by alluvium RA Gastaldo Historical Biology 6 (3), 203-219, 1992 | 102 | 1992 |
| Seasonal sediment transport and deposition in the Rajang River delta, Sarawak, East Malaysia JR Staub, HL Among, RA Gastaldo Sedimentary Geology 133 (3-4), 249-264, 2000 | 99 | 2000 |
| The base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, predates the end-Permian marine extinction RA Gastaldo, SL Kamo, J Neveling, JW Geissman, CV Looy, AM Martini Nature Communications 11 (1), 1428, 2020 | 98 | 2020 |
| Plant paleoecology in Deep Time1 WA DiMichele, RA Gastaldo Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95 (1), 144-198, 2008 | 96 | 2008 |
| The genesis and sedimentation of phytoclasts with examples from coastal environments RA Gastaldo, A Traverse Sedimentation of organic particles, 103-127, 1994 | 93 | 1994 |
| Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? AK Behrensmeyer, FT Fürsich, RA Gastaldo, SM Kidwell, MA Kosnik, ... Paleobiology 31 (4), 607-623, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
