| Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England AJ Jeram, PA Selden, D Edwards Science 250 (4981), 658-661, 1990 | 265 | 1990 |
| The role of behavior in the evolution of spiders, silks, and webs F Vollrath, P Selden Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38 (1), 819-846, 2007 | 210 | 2007 |
| A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae PA Selden, WA Shear, PM BoNAMO The Palaeontological Association, 1991 | 185 | 1991 |
| Evolution of fossil ecosystems P Selden, J Nudds Elsevier, 2012 | 172 | 2012 |
| New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida) WA Shear, PA Selden, WDI Rolfe, PM Bonamo, JD Grierson American Museum Novitates 2901, 1-74, 1987 | 154 | 1987 |
| Functional morphology of the prosoma of Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer)(Chelicerata: Eurypterida) PA Selden Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 1981 | 142 | 1981 |
| Coprolites as evidence for plant–animal interaction in Siluro–Devonian terrestrial ecosystems D Edwards, PA Selden, JB Richardson, L Axe Nature 377 (6547), 329-331, 1995 | 133 | 1995 |
| Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order PA Selden, WA Shear, MD Sutton Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (52), 20781-20785, 2008 | 130 | 2008 |
| Discussions on the age of the Daohugou fauna_evidence from invertebrates H Diying, A Nel, S Yanbin, PA Selden, L Qibin Progress in Natural Science 16 (sup1), 309-312, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates JA Dunlop, PA Selden Arthropod relationships, 221-235, 1998 | 124 | 1998 |
| Epigeic spiders as ecological indicators of conservation value for peat bogs AG Scott, GS Oxford, PA Selden Biological conservation 127 (4), 420-428, 2006 | 119 | 2006 |
| Cretaceous African life captured in amber AR Schmidt, V Perrichot, M Svojtka, KB Anderson, KH Belete, R Bussert, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (16), 7329-7334, 2010 | 118 | 2010 |
| Fossil spiders PA Selden, D Penney Biological Reviews 85 (1), 171-206, 2010 | 116 | 2010 |
| Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous PA Selden Nature 340 (6236), 711-713, 1989 | 113 | 1989 |
| Opisthosomal fusion and phylogeny of Palaeozoic Xiphosura LI Anderson, PA Selden Lethaia 30 (1), 19-31, 1997 | 107 | 1997 |
| A Triassic mygalomorph spider from the northern Vosges, France PA Selden, JC Gall The Palaeontological Association, 1992 | 99 | 1992 |
| 3 Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems WA Shear, PA Selden Plants invade the land: evolutionary and environmental perspectives, 29-51, 2001 | 97 | 2001 |
| Calibrating the chelicerate clock: a paleontological reply to Jeyaprakash and Hoy JA Dunlop, PA Selden Experimental and Applied Acarology 48, 183-197, 2009 | 88 | 2009 |
| Autecology of Silurian eurypterids PA Selden Special Papers in Palaeontology 32 (3), 9-5, 1984 | 86 | 1984 |
| Crustaceans from bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite extend fossil record of copepods PA Selden, R Huys, MH Stephenson, AP Heward, PN Taylor Nature Communications 1 (1), 50, 2010 | 82 | 2010 |