| Pinniped taxonomy: review of currently recognized species and subspecies, and evidence used for their description A Berta, M Churchill Mammal Review 42 (3), 207, 2012 | 193 | 2012 |
| The origin and evolutionary biology of pinnipeds: seals, sea lions, and walruses A Berta, M Churchill, RW Boessenecker Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 46, 203-228, 2018 | 116 | 2018 |
| The origin of high-frequency hearing in whales M Churchill, M Martinez-Caceres, C de Muizon, J Mnieckowski, ... Current Biology 26 (16), 2144-2149, 2016 | 95 | 2016 |
| Colonization of the Southern Hemisphere by fur seals and sea lions (Carnivora: Otariidae) revealed by combined evidence phylogenetic and Bayesian biogeographical analysis M Churchill, RW Boessenecker, MT Clementz Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172 (1), 200-225, 2014 | 74 | 2014 |
| World register of marine species GA Boxshall, J Mees, MJ Costello, F Hernandez, S Gofas, BW Hoeksema, ... Available at h ttp://www. marinespecies. org, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific RW Boessenecker, DJ Ehret, DJ Long, M Churchill, E Martin, ... PeerJ 7, e6088, 2019 | 59 | 2019 |
| A Reevaluation of the Morphology, Paleoecology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Enigmatic Walrus Pelagiarctos RW Boessenecker, M Churchill PLOS one 8 (1), e54311, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| A toothless dwarf dolphin (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) points to explosive feeding diversification of modern whales (Neoceti) RW Boessenecker, D Fraser, M Churchill, JH Geisler Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1861), 20170531, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
| The oldest known fur seal RW Boessenecker, M Churchill Biology Letters 11 (2), 20140835, 2015 | 48 | 2015 |
| Cope's rule and the evolution of body size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora) M Churchill, MT Clementz, N Kohno Evolution 69 (1), 201-215, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Evolution of cranial telescoping in echolocating whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti) M Churchill, JH Geisler, BL Beatty, A Goswami Evolution 72 (5), 1092-1108, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| Functional implications of variation in tooth spacing and crown size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora) M Churchill, MT Clementz The Anatomical Record 298 (5), 878-902, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| The systematics of right whales (Mysticeti: Balaenidae) M Churchill, A Berta, T Deméré Marine Mammal Science 28 (3), 497-521, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Predictive equations for the estimation of body size in seals and sea lions (Carnivora: Pinnipedia) M Churchill, MT Clementz, N Kohno Journal of Anatomy, doi: 10.1111/joa.12199, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans EJ Coombs, J Clavel, T Park, M Churchill, A Goswami BMC biology 18, 1-24, 2020 | 33 | 2020 |
| The last of the desmatophocid seals: a new species of Allodesmus from the upper Miocene of Washington, USA, and a revision of the taxonomy of Desmatophocidae RW Boessenecker, M Churchill Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (1), 211-235, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic A Goswami, E Noirault, EJ Coombs, J Clavel, AC Fabre, TJD Halliday, ... Science 378 (6618), 377-383, 2022 | 32 | 2022 |
| World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). WoRMS Editorial Board T Horton, A Kroh, S Ahyong, N Bailly, CB Boyko, SN Brandão, S Gofas, ... Ostend, Belgium, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution EJ Coombs, RN Felice, J Clavel, T Park, RF Bennion, M Churchill, ... Current Biology 32 (10), 2233-2247. e4, 2022 | 27 | 2022 |
| Convergent evolution of swimming adaptations in modern whales revealed by a large macrophagous dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina RW Boessenecker, M Churchill, EA Buchholtz, BL Beatty, JH Geisler Current Biology 30 (16), 3267-3273. e2, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
