| Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod X Ma, X Hou, GD Edgecombe, NJ Strausfeld Nature 490 (7419), 258-261, 2012 | 208 | 2012 |
| Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages P Cong, X Ma, X Hou, GD Edgecombe, NJ Strausfeld Nature 513 (7519), 538-542, 2014 | 167 | 2014 |
| Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod G Tanaka, X Hou, X Ma, GD Edgecombe, NJ Strausfeld Nature 502, 364-367, 2013 | 149 | 2013 |
| Arthropod eyes: the early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems NJ Strausfeld, X Ma, GD Edgecombe, RA Fortey, MF Land, Y Liu, P Cong, ... Arthropod Structure & Development 45 (2), 152-172, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China: the flowering of early animal life H Xian-Guang, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter, RJ Aldridge, C Pei-Yun, ... John Wiley & Sons, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Preservational pathways of corresponding brains of a Cambrian euarthropod X Ma, GD Edgecombe, X Hou, T Goral, NJ Strausfeld Current Biology 25 (22), 2969-2975, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians X Ma, X Hou, J Bergström Arthropod Structure & Development 38 (4), 271-291, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian X Ma, P Cong, X Hou, GD Edgecombe, NJ Strausfeld Nature Communications 5, doi:10.1038/ncomms4560, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Cambrian anemones with preserved soft tissue from the Chengjiang biota, China XG Hou, G Stanley, J Zhao, XY Ma Lethaia 38 (3), 193-203, 2005 | 55 | 2005 |
| Unlocking the early fossil record of the arthropod central nervous system GD Edgecombe, X Ma, NJ Strausfeld Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370 …, 2015 | 52 | 2015 |
| A Cambrian crown annelid reconciles phylogenomics and the fossil record H Chen, LA Parry, J Vinther, D Zhai, X Hou, X Ma Nature 583 (7815), 249-252, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| An early Cambrian hemichordate zooid X Hou, RJ Aldridge, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, ... Current Biology 21 (7), 612-616, 2011 | 47 | 2011 |
| Fossils and the evolution of the arthropod brain NJ Strausfeld, X Ma, GD Edgecombe Current Biology 26 (20), R989-R1000, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China XG Hou, XY Ma, J Zhao, J Bergström Lethaia 37 (3), 235-244, 2004 | 42 | 2004 |
| The morphology and phylogenetic position of the Cambrian lobopodian Diania cactiformis X Ma, GD Edgecombe, DA Legg, X Hou Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 (4), 445-457, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data RJ Howard, M Giacomelli, J Lozano-Fernandez, GD Edgecombe, ... Journal of the Geological Society 179 (4), jgs2021-107, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| A New Exceptionally Preserved Cambrian Priapulid From The Chengjiang Lagerstätte X Ma, RJ Aldridge, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter, X Hou, GD Edgecombe Journal of Paleontology 88 (2), 371-384, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| Host-specific infestation in early Cambrian worms P Cong, X Ma, M Williams, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter, SE Gabbott, D Zhai, ... Nature ecology & evolution 1 (10), 1465-1469, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| The Chengjiang Biota inhabited a deltaic environment F Saleh, C Qi, LA Buatois, MG Mángano, M Paz, R Vaucher, Q Zheng, ... Nature Communications 13 (1), 1569, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| A novel tool to untangle the ecology and fossil preservation knot in exceptionally preserved biotas F Saleh, OG Bath-Enright, AC Daley, B Lefebvre, B Pittet, A Vite, X Ma, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 569, 117061, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
Gregory D. EdgecombeMerit Researcher, The Natural History MuseumVerified email at nhm.ac.uk