| Fishes of the World JS Nelson, TC Grande, MVH Wilson John Wiley & Sons, 2016 | 12892 | 2016 |
| Paleoenvironmental contexts and taphonomic modes AK Behrensmeyer, RW Hook, CE Badgley, JA Boy, RE Chapman, ... Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of …, 1992 | 355* | 1992 |
| The rise of fishes: 500 million years of evolution JA Long, MVH Wilson Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 | 307 | 1995 |
| Middle Eocene freshwater fishes from British Columbia MVH Wilson Life Science Contributions Royal Ontario Museum 113, 1-61, 1977 | 154 | 1977 |
| Mesozoic and early Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems SL Wing, HD Sues Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of …, 1992 | 144 | 1992 |
| Phylogeny of Osteoglossomorpha GQ Li, MVH Wilson Interrelationships of Fishes, 163-174, 1996 | 127 | 1996 |
| Paleoscene# 9. Taphonomic processes: information loss and information gain MVH Wilson Geoscience Canada 15 (2), 1988 | 114 | 1988 |
| Eocene lake environments: depth and distance-from-shore variation in fish, insect, and plant assemblages MVH Wilson Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 32, 21-44, 1980 | 95 | 1980 |
| Mesozoic Fishes 5 G Arratia, HP Schultze, MVH Wilson Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, 2014 | 77* | 2014 |
| Oldest known Esox (Pisces: Esocidae), part of a new Paleocene teleost fauna from Western Canada MVH Wilson Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17 (3), 307-312, 1980 | 77 | 1980 |
| Mesozoic Fishes 4 - Homology and Phylogeny G Arratia, HP Shultze, MVH Wilson Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, 2008 | 74* | 2008 |
| Marine dispersal as a pre‐requisite for Gondwanan vicariance among elements of the galaxiid fish fauna CP Burridge, RM McDowall, D Craw, MVH Wilson, JM Waters Journal of Biogeography 39 (2), 306-321, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Reconstruction of ancient lake environments using both autochthonous and allochthonous fossils MVH Wilson Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 62 (1-4), 609-623, 1988 | 70 | 1988 |
| Sudan Black B as a nerve stain for whole cleared fishes GT Filipski, MVH Wilson Copeia, 204-208, 1984 | 69 | 1984 |
| New Silurian and Devonian fork-tailed 'thelodonts' are jawless vertebrates with stomachs and deep bodies MVH Wilson, MW Caldwell Nature Publishing Group 361 (6411), 442-444, 1993 | 67 | 1993 |
| New teleostome fishes and acanthodian systematics GF Hanke, MVH Wilson Recent advances in the origin and early radiation of vertebrates, 189-216, 2004 | 65 | 2004 |
| The Furcacaudiformes: a new order of jawless vertebrates with thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils from northern Canada MVH Wilson, MW Caldwell Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 (1), 10-29, 1998 | 64 | 1998 |
| Cretaceous Esocoidei (Teleostei): early radiation of the pikes in North American fresh waters MVH Wilson, DB Brinkman, AG Neuman Journal of Paleontology 66 (5), 839-846, 1992 | 64 | 1992 |
| Paleogene insect faunas of western North America MVH Wilson Quaestiones Entomologicae 14 (1), 13-34, 1978 | 60 | 1978 |
| An anoxic event at the Albian-Cenomanian boundary: the Fish Scale marker bed, northern Alberta, Canada DA Leckie, C Singh, J Bloch, MVH Wilson, J Wall Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology 92 (1-2), 139-166, 1992 | 56 | 1992 |
