| Santana fossils: an illustrated atlas JG Maisey (No Title), 1991 | 495 | 1991 |
| Heads and tails: a chordate phylogeny JG Maisey Cladistics 2 (4), 201-256, 1986 | 374 | 1986 |
| Mesozoic elasmobranchs, neoselachian phylogeny and the rise of modern elasmobranch diversity JG Maisey, GJP Naylor, DJ Ward Mesozoic fishes 3, 17-56, 2004 | 221 | 2004 |
| Continental break up and the distribution of fishes of Western Gondwana during the Early Cretaceous JG Maisey Cretaceous Research 21 (2-3), 281-314, 2000 | 215 | 2000 |
| Higher elasmobranch phylogeny and biostratigraphy JG Maisey Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 82 (1-2), 33-54, 1984 | 180 | 1984 |
| Freshwater stingrays of the Green River Formation of Wyoming (Early Eocene), with the description of a new genus and species and an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships … MR De Carvalho, JG Maisey, L Grande Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2004 (284), 1-136, 2004 | 173 | 2004 |
| Chondrichthyan phylogeny: a look at the evidence JG Maisey Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4 (3), 359-371, 1984 | 163 | 1984 |
| What is an ‘elasmobranch’? The impact of palaeontology in understanding elasmobranch phylogeny and evolution JG Maisey Journal of Fish Biology 80 (5), 918-951, 2012 | 154 | 2012 |
| An evaluation of jaw suspension in sharks JG Maisey American Museum novitates, no. 2706, 1980 | 148 | 1980 |
| Insects from the Santana Formation, lower cretaceous, of Brazil DA Grimaldi American Museum of Natural History 195, 1-191, 1990 | 146 | 1990 |
| The anatomy and interrelationships of Mesozoic hybodont sharks JG Maisey American Museum of Natural History 2724, 1-48, 1982 | 143 | 1982 |
| Discovering fossil fishes JG Maisey (No Title), 1996 | 140 | 1996 |
| Hamiltonichthys mapesi, g. & sp. nov.(Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas. American Museum novitates;; no. 2931. JG Maisey New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1989 | 140 | 1989 |
| Interrelationships of basal neopterygians JG Maisey, DTJ Littlewood Interrelationships of Fishes. Academic Press, San Diego, 117-146, 1996 | 136 | 1996 |
| Cranial anatomy of Hybodus basanus Egerton from the Lower Cretaceous of England JG Maisey American Museum Novitates 2758, 1-64, 1983 | 134 | 1983 |
| Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic shark Hybodus reticulatus (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii): with comments on hybodontid systematics JG Maisey New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1987 | 126 | 1987 |
| Skull and brain of a 300-million-year-old chimaeroid fish revealed by synchrotron holotomography A Pradel, M Langer, JG Maisey, D Geffard-Kuriyama, P Cloetens, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (13), 5224-5228, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| The interrelationships of phalacanthous selachians. JG Maisey | 104 | 1975 |
| Coelacanths from the lower cretaceous of Brazil JG Maisey American Museum Novitates 2866, 1-30, 1986 | 96 | 1986 |
| Braincase of the Upper Devonian shark Cladodoides wildungensis (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), with observations on the braincase in early chondrichthyans JG Maisey Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (288), 1-103, 2005 | 92 | 2005 |
