| The onset of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean (Pissouri Basin, Cyprus) W Krijgsman, MM Blanc-Valleron, R Flecker, FJ Hilgen, TJ Kouwenhoven, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 194 (3-4), 299-310, 2002 | 175 | 2002 |
| The spiral cords and the internal denticles of the outer lip in the Muricidae: terminology and methodological comments D Merle Novapex 2 (3), 69-91, 2001 | 118 | 2001 |
| The spiral cords of the Muricidae (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda): importance of ontogenetic and topological correspondences for delineating structural homologies D Merle Lethaia 38 (4), 367-379, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |
| Fossil and recent Muricidae of the world: part Muricinae D Merle, B Garrigues, JP Pointier ConchBooks, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Stratotype du Lutétien D Merle Biotope, 2008 | 72* | 2008 |
| La radiation des Muricidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) au Paléogène: approche phylogénétique et évolutive D Merle Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1999 | 61 | 1999 |
| The onset of the Messinian salinity crisis: insights from Cyprus sections F Orszag-Sperber, A Caruso, MM Blanc-Valleron, D Merle, JM Rouchy Sedimentary Geology 217 (1-4), 52-64, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| La faune danienne de Vigny (Val-d’Oise, France): importance pour l’étude de la diversificationdes mollusques au début du Tertiaire JM Pacaud, D Merle, JC Meyer Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences-Series IIA-Earth and Planetary …, 2000 | 42 | 2000 |
| Middle Lutetian climate in the Paris Basin: implications for a marine hotspot of paleobiodiversity D Huyghe, D Merle, F Lartaud, E Cheype, L Emmanuel Facies 58, 587-604, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| Palaeogene climate evolution in the Paris Basin from oxygen stable isotope (δ18O) compositions of marine molluscs D Huyghe, F Lartaud, L Emmanuel, D Merle, M Renard Journal of the Geological Society 172 (5), 576-587, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Taxonomic implications of the residual colour patterns of ampullinid gastropods and their contribution to the discrimination from naticids B Caze, D Merle, M Le Meur, JM Pacaud, D Ledon, JP Saint Martin Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (2), 329-347, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Ontogenetic changes of the spiral cords as keys innovation of the muricid sculptural patterns: the example of the Muricopsis–Murexsul lineages (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae) D Merle, R Houart Comptes Rendus Palevol 2 (6-7), 547-561, 2003 | 31 | 2003 |
| A developmental perspective on evolutionary innovation in the radula of the predatory neogastropod family Muricidae GS Herbert, D Merle, CS Gallardo American Malacological Bulletin 23 (1), 17-32, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Les paléopeuplements marins du Messinien pré-évaporitique de Pissouri (Chypre, Méditerranée orientale): aspects paléoécologiques précédant la crise de salinité messinienne D Merle, A Lauriat-Rage, J Gaudant, S Pestrea, MD Courme-Rault, I Zorn, ... Geodiversitas 24 (3), 669-689, 2002 | 30 | 2002 |
| Onshore–offshore gradient in metacommunity turnover emerges only over macroevolutionary time-scales A Tomašových, S Dominici, M Zuschin, D Merle Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1795), 20141533, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| First systematic study using the variability of the residual colour patterns: the case of the Paleogene Seraphsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stromboidea) B Caze, D Merle, JM Pacaud, JP Saint Martin Geodiversitas 32 (3), 417-477, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Intense bone fluorescence reveals hidden patterns in pumpkin toadlets S Goutte, MJ Mason, MM Antoniazzi, C Jared, D Merle, L Cazes, ... Scientific Reports 9 (1), 5388, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| Bivalves on mecochirid lobsters from the Aptian of the Isle of Wight: Snapshot on an Early Cretaceous palaeosymbiosis N Robin, S Charbonnier, D Merle, MI Simpson, G Petit, S Fernandez Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 453, 10-19, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Contribution of residual colour patterns to the species characterization of Caenozoic molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia) B Caze, D Merle, JP Saint Martin, JM Pacaud Comptes Rendus Palevol 10 (2-3), 171-179, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
| Découverte d'une faune de vertébrés dans l'Oligocène inférieur de Vayres-sur-Essonne (bassin de Paris, France): biodiversité et paléoenvironnement D Merle, JP Baut, L Ginsburg, C Sagne, S Hervet, RP Carriol, ... Comptes Rendus Palevol 1 (2), 111-116, 2002 | 26 | 2002 |
