| A comment on the systematic confusion of thrombolites RS Shapiro Palaios 15 (2), 166-169, 2000 | 275 | 2000 |
| Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in late Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans N Planavsky, O Rouxel, A Bekker, R Shapiro, P Fralick, A Knudsen Earth and Planetary Science Letters 286 (1-2), 230-242, 2009 | 199 | 2009 |
| Reef patterns and environmental influences in the Cambrian and earliest Ordovician SM Rowland, RS Shapiro | 198 | 2002 |
| Favosamaceria cooperi new group and form: a widely dispersed, time-restricted thrombolite RS Shapiro, SM Awramik Journal of Paleontology 80 (3), 411-422, 2006 | 60 | 2006 |
| Microbialite morphostratigraphy as a tool for correlating Late Cambrian–Early Ordovician sequences RS Shapiro, SM Awramik The Journal of Geology 108 (2), 171-180, 2000 | 49 | 2000 |
| First occurrence of an in situ anthaspidellid sponge in a dendrolite mound (Upper Cambrian; Great Basin, USA) RS Shapiro, JK Rigby Journal of Paleontology 78 (4), 645-650, 2004 | 43 | 2004 |
| Stromatolites below the photic zone in the northern Arabian Sea formed by calcifying chemotrophic microbial mats T Himmler, D Smrzka, J Zwicker, S Kasten, RS Shapiro, G Bohrmann, ... Geology 46 (4), 339-342, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Hematite‐coated microfossils: primary ecological fingerprint or taphonomic oddity of the Paleoproterozoic? RS Shapiro, KO Konhauser Geobiology 13 (3), 209-224, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| Bacterial fossil record in whale-falls: petrographic evidence of microbial sulfate reduction RS Shapiro, E Spangler Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 274 (3-4), 196-203, 2009 | 37 | 2009 |
| Recognition of fossil prokaryotes in Cretaceous methane seep carbonates: relevance to astrobiology R Scott Shapiro Astrobiology 4 (4), 438-449, 2004 | 37 | 2004 |
| Chemical and textural overprinting of ancient stromatolites: Timing, processes, and implications for their use as paleoenvironmental proxies DA Petrash, LJ Robbins, RS Shapiro, SJ Mojzsis, KO Konhauser Precambrian Research 278, 145-160, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Tepee Buttes: Fossilized methane-seep ecosystems R Shapiro, H Fricke | 33 | 2002 |
| Neoproterozoic-Cambrian microbialite record RS Shapiro The Paleontological Society Papers 10, 5-16, 2004 | 28 | 2004 |
| Microscale biosignatures and abiotic mineral authigenesis in Little Hot Creek, California EA Kraus, SR Beeler, RA Mors, JG Floyd, GeoBiology 2016, BW Stamps, ... Frontiers in microbiology 9, 997, 2018 | 27 | 2018 |
| Dinosaur-bearing oncoids from ephemeral lakes of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah RS Shapiro, HC Fricke, K Fox Palaios 24 (1), 51-58, 2009 | 25 | 2009 |
| Investigation of optically stimulated luminescence behavior of quartz from crystalline rock surfaces: A look forward LM Simkins, R DeWitt, AR Simms, S Briggs, RS Shapiro Quaternary Geochronology 36, 161-173, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Microbial biogeochemistry of B oiling S prings L ake: a physically dynamic, oligotrophic, low‐p H geothermal ecosystem PL Siering, GV Wolfe, MS Wilson, AN Yip, CM Carey, CD Wardman, ... Geobiology 11 (4), 356-376, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Valence state fossils in Proterozoic stromatolites by L‐edge X‐ray absorption spectroscopy SJ Brotton, R Shapiro, G van der Laan, J Guo, PA Glans, JM Ajello Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 112 (G3), 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| Stratigraphic setting of a subtidal stromatolite field, Iguana Cay, Exumas, Bahamas RS Shapiro, KR Aalto, RF Dill, R Kenny SPECIAL PAPERS-GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 139-156, 1995 | 20 | 1995 |
| Late Paleozoic stromatolites: new insights from the Lower Permian of Kansas RS Shapiro, RR West Lethaia 32 (2), 131-139, 1999 | 19 | 1999 |
