| Cretaceous terrestrial beds from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina) and their tetrapod assemblages HA Leanza, S Apesteguıa, FE Novas, MS de la Fuente Cretaceous Research 25 (1), 61-87, 2004 | 340 | 2004 |
| The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America PJ Makovicky, S Apesteguía, FL Agnolín Nature 437 (7061), 1007-1011, 2005 | 302 | 2005 |
| A Cretaceous terrestrial snake with robust hindlimbs and a sacrum S Apesteguía, H Zaher Nature 440 (7087), 1037-1040, 2006 | 224 | 2006 |
| A new specimen of Neuquensaurus australis, a Late Cretaceous saltasaurine titanosaur from north Patagonia L Salgado, S Apesteguía, SE Heredia Journal of vertebrate Paleontology 25 (3), 623-634, 2005 | 159 | 2005 |
| The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution MW Caldwell, RL Nydam, A Palci, S Apesteguía Nature communications 6 (1), 5996, 2015 | 151 | 2015 |
| Large Cretaceous sphenodontian from Patagonia provides insight into lepidosaur evolution in Gondwana S Apesteguía, FE Novas Nature 425 (6958), 609-612, 2003 | 149 | 2003 |
| Bonitasaura salgadoi gen. et sp. nov.: a beaked sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia S Apesteguía Naturwissenschaften 91, 493-497, 2004 | 145 | 2004 |
| New Araripesuchus remains from the early late cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) of Patagonia D Pol, S Apesteguía American Museum Novitates 2005 (3490), 1-38, 2005 | 131 | 2005 |
| Highly specialized mammalian skulls from the Late Cretaceous of South America GW Rougier, S Apesteguía, LC Gaetano Nature 479 (7371), 98-102, 2011 | 125 | 2011 |
| Ligabuesaurus leanzai gen. et sp. nov.(Dinosauria, Sauropoda), a new titanosaur from the Lohan Cura Formation (Aptian, lower Cretaceous) of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina JF Bonaparte, BJG Riga, S Apesteguía Cretaceous Research 27 (3), 364-376, 2006 | 121 | 2006 |
| The sauropod diversity of the La Amarga Formation (Barremian), Neuquén (Argentina) S Apesteguía Gondwana Research 12 (4), 533-546, 2007 | 117 | 2007 |
| Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina P Gallina, S Apesteguía Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Nueva Serie 7 (2), 153-166, 2005 | 103 | 2005 |
| Upper Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of Río Negro (Salitral Ojo de Agua and Salinas de Trapalcó-Salitral de Santa Rosa), northern Patagonia, Argentina L Salgado, RA Coria, CMM Ribeiro, A Garrido, R Rogers, ME Simón, ... Cretaceous Research 28 (3), 392-404, 2007 | 81 | 2007 |
| The Miocene mammal Necrolestes demonstrates the survival of a Mesozoic nontherian lineage into the late Cenozoic of South America GW Rougier, JR Wible, RMD Beck, S Apesteguía Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (49), 20053-20058, 2012 | 79 | 2012 |
| Review of Cretaceous dipnoans from Argentina (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) with descriptions of new species S Apesteguía, F Agnolin, K Claeson Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales nueva serie 9 (1), 27-40, 2007 | 77 | 2007 |
| An unusual new theropod with a didactyl manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina S Apesteguía, ND Smith, RJ Valieri, PJ Makovicky PLoS One 11 (7), e0157793, 2016 | 68 | 2016 |
| The anatomy of the upper cretaceous snake Najash rionegrina Apesteguía & Zaher, 2006, and the evolution of limblessness in snakes H Zaher, S Apesteguia, CA Scanferla Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (4), 801-826, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of the titanosaurian sauropod Bonitasaura salgadoi PA Gallina, S Apesteguía Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1), 45-60, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |
| A diplodocid sauropod survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America PA Gallina, S Apesteguia, A Haluza, JI Canale PLoS One 9 (5), e97128, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| Non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the early Late Cretaceous of Central Europe A Ősi, S Apesteguía, M Kowalewski Cretaceous Research 31 (3), 304-320, 2010 | 64 | 2010 |
