| The emergence of animals the Cambrian Breakthrough MAS Mcmenamin, DLS Mcmenamin Columbia University Press, 1990 | 605 | 1990 |
| The Garden of Ediacara MAS McMenamin Palaios 1 (2), 178-182, 1986 | 259* | 1986 |
| Hydrates of natural gas; a review of their geologic occurrence KA Kvenvolden, MA McMenamin Circular, 1980 | 204 | 1980 |
| Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the Caborca region, Sonora, Mexico; physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleocurrent studies, and regional relations JH Stewart, MAS McMENAMIN, JM Morales-Ramírez Professional Paper, 1984 | 197 | 1984 |
| Concepts of symbiogenesis: a historical and critical study of the research of Russian botanists LN Khakhina, L Margulis, MA McMenamin Bio-origins series (USA), 1992 | 110* | 1992 |
| Hypersea: Life on land MA McMenamin, DLS McMenamin (No Title), 1994 | 98 | 1994 |
| Ediacaran biota from Sonora, Mexico. MA McMenamin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93 (10), 4990-4993, 1996 | 59 | 1996 |
| Basal Cambrian small shelly fossils from the La Cienega formation, northwestern Sonora, Mexico MAS McMenamin Journal of Paleontology, 1414-1425, 1985 | 59 | 1985 |
| The emergence of animals MAS McMenamin Scientific American 256 (4), 94-103, 1987 | 52 | 1987 |
| Two new pre-trilobite faunas from western North America PW Signor III, MAS McMenamin, DA Gevirtzman, JF Mount Nature 303 (5916), 415-418, 1983 | 50 | 1983 |
| Precambrian-Cambrian transition problem in western North America: Part II. Early Cambrian skeletonized fauna and associated fossils from Sonora, Mexico MAS McMenamin, SM Awramik, JH Stewart Geology 11 (4), 227-230, 1983 | 50 | 1983 |
| Did surface temperatures constrain microbial evolution? D Schwartzman, M McMenamin, T Volk BioScience 43 (6), 390-393, 1993 | 48 | 1993 |
| The early Cambrian worm tube Onuphionella from California and Nevada PW Signor, MAS Mcmenamin Journal of Paleontology 62 (2), 233-240, 1988 | 43 | 1988 |
| Lower Cambrian trilobites, zonation, and correlation of the Puerto Blanco Formation, Sonora, Mexico MAS McMenamin Journal of Paleontology 61 (4), 738-749, 1987 | 37 | 1987 |
| Hypersea M McMenamin, D McMenamin New York, 1994 | 32 | 1994 |
| Two new species of the Cambrian genus Mickwitzia MAS McMenamin Journal of Paleontology 66 (2), 173-182, 1992 | 31 | 1992 |
| A case for two late Proterozoic–earliest Cambrian faunal province loci MAS McMenamin Geology 10 (6), 290-292, 1982 | 31 | 1982 |
| Dynamic paleontology MAS McMenamin Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Amino acid geochemistry of fossil bones from the Rancho La Brea asphalt deposit, California MAS McMenamin, DJ Blunt, KA Kvenvolden, SE Miller, LF Marcus, ... Quaternary Research 18 (2), 174-183, 1982 | 25 | 1982 |
| Early Cambrian Appalachian archaeocyaths: further age constraints from the fauna of New Jersey and Virginia, USA MAS McMenamin, F Debrenne, AY Zhuravlev Geobios 33 (6), 693-708, 2000 | 24 | 2000 |
Tyler VolkProfessor Emeritus of Biology and Environmental Studies, New York UniversityVerified email at nyu.edu
