| Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type P Van Roy, PJ Orr, JP Botting, LA Muir, J Vinther, B Lefebvre, K El Hariri, ... Nature 465 (7295), 215-218, 2010 | 340 | 2010 |
| Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta H Ehrlich, JK Rigby, JP Botting, MV Tsurkan, C Werner, P Schwille, ... Scientific reports 3 (1), 3497, 2013 | 144 | 2013 |
| Insights into chemistry of biological materials: newly discovered silica-aragonite-chitin biocomposites in demosponges H Ehrlich, P Simon, W Carrillo-Cabrera, VV Bazhenov, JP Botting, M Ilan, ... Chemistry of Materials 22 (4), 1462-1471, 2010 | 129 | 2010 |
| Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna A Brayard, LJ Krumenacker, JP Botting, JF Jenks, KG Bylund, E Fara, ... Science Advances 3 (2), e1602159, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Early sponge evolution: a review and phylogenetic framework JP Botting, LA Muir Palaeoworld 27 (1), 1-29, 2018 | 106 | 2018 |
| Reconstructing early sponge relationships by using the Burgess Shale fossil Eiffelia globosa, Walcott JP Botting, NJ Butterfield Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of …, 2005 | 91 | 2005 |
| Evolutionary history of Cambrian spiculate sponges: Implications for the Cambrian evolutionary fauna MG Carrera, JP Botting Palaios 23 (3), 124, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Welsh gold: A new exceptionally preserved pyritized Ordovician biota JP Botting, LA Muir, MD Sutton, T Barnie Geology 39 (9), 879, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, central Wales and phylogenetic implications JP Botting Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2 (1), 31-63, 2004 | 60 | 2004 |
| Flourishing sponge-based ecosystems after the end-Ordovician mass extinction JP Botting, LA Muir, Y Zhang, X Ma, J Ma, L Wang, J Zhang, Y Song, ... Current Biology 27 (4), 556-562, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Conulariids and Sphenothallus (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) from the Tonggao Formation (Lower Ordovician, China) H Van Iten, LA Muir, JP Botting, YD Zhang, JP Lin Bulletin of Geosciences 88 (4), 713-722, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| EXCEPTIONALLY WELL‐PRESERVED MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN SPONGES FROM THE LLANDEGLEY ROCKS LAGERSTÄTTE, WALES JP Botting Palaeontology 48 (3), 577-617, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
| Calcite Reinforced Silica–Silica Joints in the Biocomposite Skeleton of Deep‐Sea Glass Sponges H Ehrlich, E Brunner, P Simon, VV Bazhenov, JP Botting, KR Tabachnick, ... Advanced Functional Materials, 2011 | 51 | 2011 |
| ‘Cambrian’demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges JP Botting Geobios 40 (6), 737-748, 2007 | 51 | 2007 |
| An Ordovician variation on Burgess Shale-type biotas JP Botting, LA Muir, N Jordan, C Upton Scientific Reports 5 (1), 9947, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Early Cambrian sponges of the Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland JP Botting, JS Peel Papers in Palaeontology 2 (4), 463-487, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules in Lenica sp. from the Early Cambrian of South China JP Botting, LA Muir, S Xiao, X Li, JP Lin Lethaia 45 (4), 463-475, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| Sponge-dominated offshore benthic ecosystems across South China in the aftermath of the end-Ordovician mass extinction JP Botting, LA Muir, W Wang, W Qie, J Tan, L Zhang, Y Zhang Gondwana Research 61, 150-171, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Spicule structure and affinities of the Late Ordovician hexactinellid-like sponge Cyathophycus loydelli from the Llanfawr Mudstones Lagerstätte, Wales JP Botting, LA Muir Lethaia 46 (4), 454-469, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Relationships of the Cambrian protomonaxonida (Porifera) JP Botting, LA Muir, JP Lin | 35 | 2013 |
