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Mills, B., & Leighton, L.R. (In review) Functional morphology of chonetidine spines: Biomechanical tests of a key innovation. Paleobiology.
Leighton, L.R. (In review) The latitudinal diversity gradient through deep time: Testing the “age of the tropics” hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology.
Redman, C.M., Gale, C.N., Leighton, L.R., Schellenberg, S.A., Nielsen, J.L., Dressler, D.L. III, & Klinger, M.K. (In review) The influence of spatio-temporal scale on community structure: Lateral variation in the Imperial Formation (Pliocene) of California . Palaios.
Leighton, L.R. 2004 Are we asking the right question? Palaios. 19:315-316.
Leighton, L.R. & Schneider, C.L. 2004 Neighbor Proximity Analysis, a technique for assessing spatial patterns in the fossil record. Palaios. 19:396-407.
Leighton, L.R. 2003 Morphological response of prey to drilling predation in the Middle Devonian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 201(3-4):221-234.
Aronowsky, A., & Leighton, L.R. 2003 Exciting research on boring predation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 201(3-4):183-184.
Aronowsky, A., & Leighton, L.R. 2003 Comment on “Mystery of naticid predation solved”. Geology. 31:e34.
Vermeij, G.J., & Leighton, L.R. 2003 Is global biodiversity meaningful? Paleobiology. 29:3-7.
Leighton, L.R. 2002 Inferring predation intensity from the marine fossil record. Paleobiology. 28:328-342.
Fisher, D.C., Foote, M., Fox, D.L., & Leighton, L.R. 2002 Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction – Comment on Smith (2000). Journal of Paleontology. 76:585-586.
Leighton, L.R. & Maples, C.G. 2002 Evaluating the importance of internal versus external characters: Phylogenetic analyses of the Echinoconchidae, Buxtoniinae, and Juresaniinae. Journal of Paleontology. 76:659-671
Hermoyian, C.S., Leighton, L.R., & Kaplan, P.K. 2002 Limiting similarity and Hutchinsonian ratios in the fossil record. Geology. 30:15-18.
Leighton, L.R. 2001 New example of Devonian predatory boreholes and the influence of brachiopod spines on predator success. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 165(1/2):53-69.
Leighton, L.R. 2000 Environmental distribution of spinose brachiopods from the Devonian of New York: Test of the soft-substrate hypothesis. Palaios. 15:184-193.
Fox, D.L., Fisher, D.C., & Leighton, L.R. 1999 Reconstructing phylogeny with and without temporal data. Science. 284:1816-1819.
Baumiller, T.K., Leighton, L.R., & Thompson, D.L. 1999 Boreholes in Mississippian spiriferide brachiopods and their implications for Paleozoic gastropod drilling. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 147(3-4):283-289.
Leighton, L.R. 1999 Possible latitudinal predation gradient in middle Paleozoic oceans. Geology. 27(1):47-50.
Leighton, L.R. 1998 Constraining functional hypotheses: controls on the morphology of the concavo-convex brachiopod Rafinesquina. Lethaia. 31(4):293-307.
Leighton, L.R. 2003 Predation on brachiopods. In: Kelley, P.H., Kowalewski, M., and Hansen, T.A. (eds.): Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Topics in Geobiology, 20, Kluwer/Plenum, New York , pp. 215-237.
Carlson, S.J. & Leighton, L.R. 2001 Incorporating stratigraphic data in phylogenetic analyses of the Rhynchonelliformea. In: Brunton, C.H.C., Cox, L.R.M., Long, S.R. (eds.) Brachiopods Past and Present, Proceedings of the Fourth International Brachiopod Congress, Systematics Association Special Volume 63:248-258.
Leighton, L.R. 2001 New directions in the paleoecology of Paleozoic brachiopods. In: Carlson, S.J., and Sandy, M.R. (eds.): Brachiopods Ancient and Modern. The Paleontological Society Papers, 7:185-205.
Carlson, S.J. & Leighton, L.R. 2001 The phylogeny and classification of Rhynchonelliformea. In: Carlson, S.J., and Sandy, M.R. (eds.): Brachiopods Ancient and Modern. The Paleontological Society Papers, 7:27-51.
Leighton, L.R., & Savarese, M. 1996 Functional and taphonomic implications of Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod morphology. In Copper, P. & Jin, J. (eds.): Brachiopods, Proceedings of the Third International Brachiopod Congress, Sudbury , ON , Canada , pp. 161-168.
