| Early members of ‘living fossil’lineage imply later origin of modern ray-finned fishes S Giles, GH Xu, TJ Near, M Friedman Nature 549 (7671), 265-268, 2017 | 106 | 2017 |
| High-precision temporal calibration of Middle Triassic vertebrate biostratigraphy: U-Pb zircon constraints for the Sinokannemeyeria Fauna andYonghesuchus LIU Jun, J RAMEZANI, LI Lu, S Qing-Hua, XU Guang-Hui, W Yan-Yin, ... Vertebrata PalAsiatica 56 (1), 16, 2018 | 66 | 2018 |
| A new stem-neopterygian fish from the Middle Triassic of China shows the earliest over-water gliding strategy of the vertebrates GH Xu, LJ Zhao, KQ Gao, FX Wu Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1750), 20122261, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| A deep-bodied ginglymodian fish from the Middle Triassic of eastern Yunnan Province, China, and the phylogeny of lower neopterygians GH Xu, FX Wu Chinese Science Bulletin 57, 111-118, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| New saurichthyid actinopterygian fishes from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of southwestern China W Feixiang, S Yuanlin, X Guanghui, H Weicheng, J Dayong, S Zuoyu Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (3), 581-614, 2011 | 59 | 2011 |
| New species of Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Yunnan Province, China F Wu, Y Sun, W Hao, D Jiang, G Xu, Z Sun, A Tintori Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition 83 (3), 440-450, 2009 | 58 | 2009 |
| A revision of the Middle Triassic scanilepiform fish Fukangichthys longidorsalis from Xinjiang, China, with comments on the phylogeny of the Actinopteri GH Xu, KQ Gao, JA Finarelli Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (4), 747-759, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| The oldest ionoscopiform from China sheds new light on the early evolution of halecomorph fishes GH Xu, LJ Zhao, MI Coates Biology Letters 10 (20140204), 1-5, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| New species of Sangiorgioichthys Tintori and Lombardo, 2007 (Neopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Anisian of Luoping (Yunnan Province, South China) A López Arbarello, ZY Sun, ME Sferco, A Tintori, GH Xu, YL Sun, FX Wu, ... Magnolia Press, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| A new scanilepiform from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-teleostean Actinopterygii GH Xu, KQ Gao Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (3), 595-612, 2011 | 43 | 2011 |
| The first enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous of China M Wang, Z Zhou, G Xu Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (1), 135-145, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| A new saurichthyiform (Actinopterygii) with a crushing feeding mechanism from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou (China) F Wu, M Chang, Y Sun, G Xu PloS one 8 (12), e81010, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| A Middle Triassic thoracopterid from China highlights the evolutionary origin of overwater gliding in early ray-finned fishes GH Xu, LJ Zhao, CC Shen Biology Letters 11 (1), 20140960, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| The Lower Cambrian crustacean Pectocaris from the Chengjiang biota, Yunnan, China XG Hou, J Bergström, GH Xu Journal of Paleontology 78 (4), 2004 | 30 | 2004 |
| Taxonomic revision of Plesiofuro mingshuica from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu, China, and the relationships of early neopterygian clades GH Xu, KQ Gao, MI Coates Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (6), e1001515, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Panxianichthys imparilis gen. et sp. nov., a new ionoscopiform (Halecomorphi) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China XU Guang-Hui, S Chen-Chen Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53 (1), 1, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| A Middle Triassic stem-neopterygian fish from China sheds new light on the peltopleuriform phylogeny and internal fertilization GH Xu, XY Ma Science Bulletin 61, 1766-1774, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| A Middle Triassic stem-neopterygian fish from China shows remarkable secondary sexual characteristics GH Xu, LJ Zhao Science Bulletin 61, 338-344, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Redescription of †Paralycoptera wui Chang & Chou, 1977 (Teleostei: Osteoglossoidei) from the Early Cretaceous of eastern China GH Xu, MM Chang Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (1), 83-106, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
| Redescription and phylogenetic reassessment of Asialepidotus shingyiensis (Holostei: Halecomorphi) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of China GH Xu, XY Ma Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (1), 95-114, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
