| Olduvai Gorge: Volume 3, excavations in beds I and II, 1960-1963 MD Leakey Cambridge University Press, 1971 | 2383 | 1971 |
| Studies of the mammalian dentition.–differentiation of the post‐canine dentition PM Butler Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 109 (1), 1-36, 1939 | 718 | 1939 |
| The cranium and maxillary dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) boisei PV Tobias, WE Clark (No Title), 1967 | 627* | 1967 |
| The ontogeny of molar pattern PM Butler Biological Reviews 31 (1), 30-69, 1956 | 391 | 1956 |
| The milk‐molars of Perissodactyla, with remarks on molar occlusion. PM Butler Proceedings of the zoological Society of London 121 (4), 777-817, 1952 | 298 | 1952 |
| Olduvai Gorge, 1951-61 LSB Leakey University Press, 1965 | 241 | 1965 |
| Phylogeny of the insectivors PM Butler The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods Vol 2 Mammals, 117-141, 1988 | 216 | 1988 |
| The problem of insectivore classification PM Butler Studies in vertebrate evolution, 253-265, 1972 | 208 | 1972 |
| THE SKULL OF ICTOPS AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE INSECTIVORA PM Butler Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 126 (3), 453-481, 1956 | 188 | 1956 |
| On the evolution of the skull and teeth in the Erinaceidae, with special reference to fossil material in the British Museum PM Butler Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118 (2), 446-500, 1948 | 158 | 1948 |
| Some functional aspects of molar evolution PM Butler Evolution, 474-483, 1972 | 153 | 1972 |
| Ontogenetic aspects of dental evolution PM Butler International Journal of Developmental Biology 39, 25, 1995 | 133 | 1995 |
| Tooth morphology and primate evolution PM Butler Dental anthropology, 1-13, 1963 | 126 | 1963 |
| Macroscelidea, Insectivora and Chiroptera from the Miocene of east Africa. PM Butler Palaeovertebrata, 1984 | 124 | 1984 |
| Early trends in the evolution of tribosphenic molars PM Butler Biological Reviews 65 (4), 529-552, 1990 | 110 | 1990 |
| The teeth of the Jurassic mammals PM Butler Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 109 (3‐4), 329-356, 1939 | 110 | 1939 |
| Homologies of molar cusps and crests, and their bearing on assessments of rodent phylogeny PM Butler Evolutionary relationships among rodents: a multidisciplinary analysis, 381-401, 1985 | 97 | 1985 |
| Development, function and evolution of teeth KA Joysey, PM Butler San Francisco, California Academic, 1978 | 95 | 1978 |
| Insectivora and Chiroptera from the Miocene rocks of Kenya Colony PM Butler, AT Hopwood (No Title), 1957 | 93 | 1957 |
| Review of the early allotherian mammals PM Butler Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 45 (4), 2000 | 92 | 2000 |
