Roberts, Eric M., Todd, Christopher N., Aanen, Duur K., Nobre, Tânia, Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah L., O'Connor, Patrick M., Tapanila, Leif, Mtelela, Cassy, and Stevens, Nancy J. (2016) Oligocene termite nests with in situ fungus gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, support a paleogene African origin for insect agriculture. PLoS ONE, 11 (6). e0156847. pp. 1-17.

Foreman, Brady Z., Roberts, Eric M., Tapanila, Leif, Ratigan, Deirdre, and Sullivan, Patrick (2015) Stable isotope insights into paleoclimatic conditions and alluvial depositional processes in the Kaiparowits Formation (Campanian, south-central Utah, U.S.A.). Cretaceous Research, 56. pp. 180-192.

Hill, Robert V., Roberts, Eric M., Tapanila, Leif, Bouaré, M.L., Sissoko, Famory, and O'Leary, Maureen A. (2015) Multispecies shark feeding in the Trans-Saharan Seaway: evidence from Late Cretaceous dyrosaurid (Crocodyliformes) fossils from northeastern Mali. Palaios, 30 (7). pp. 589-596.

Tapanila, Leif, Ferguson, Ashley, and Roberts, Eric M. (2015) The paradox of drilled devil's toenails: taphonomic mixing obscures Cretaceous drilling predation in Utah oysters. Palaios, 30 (4). pp. 294-303.

Tapanila, Leif, and Roberts, Eric M. (2013) Continental invertibrates and trace fossils from the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Utah. In: Titus, Alan L., and Loewen, Mark A., (eds.) At the Top of the Grand Staircase: the late Cretaceous of Southern Utah. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, USA, pp. 132-152.

Tapanila, Leif, and Roberts, Eric (2012) The earliest evidence of holometabolan insect pupation in conifer wood. PLoS ONE, 7 (2). e31668. pp. 1-10.

Larsen, Joseph S., Link, Paul K., Roberts, Eric M., Tapanila, Leif, and Fanning, C. Mark (2010) Cyclic stratigraphy of the Paleogene Pine Hollow Formation and detrital zircon provenance of Campanian to Eocene sandstones of the Kaiparowits and Table Cliffs basins, south-central Utah. In: Carney, Stephanie M., Tabet, David E., and Johnson, Cari L., (eds.) Geology of South-Central Utah. Utah Geological Association Publication . Utah Geological Association, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, pp. 194-224.

Claeson, Kerin M., O'Leary, Maureen A., Roberts, Eric M., Sissoko, Famory, Bouaré, Mamadou, Tapanila, Leif, Goodwin, David, and Gottfried, Michael D. (2010) First Mesozoic record of the stingray Myliobatis wurnoensis from Mali and a phylogenetic analysis of Myliobatidae incorporating dental characters. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 55 (4). pp. 655-674.

Roberts, Eric M., Tapanila, Leif, and Mijal, Brandon (2008) Taphonomy and sedimentology of storm-generated continental shell beds: a case example from the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin. Journal of Geology, 116 (5). pp. 462-479.

Tapanila, Leif, Roberts, Eric M., Bouaré, Mohamed L., Sissoko, Famory, and O'Leary, Maureen A. (2008) Phosphate taphonomy of bone and coprolite conglomerates: a case study from the Eocene of Mali, NW Africa. Palaios, 23 (3). pp. 139-152.

Gaffney, Eugene S., Roberts, Eric M., Sissoko, Famory, Bouaré, Mohamed L., Tapanila, Leif, and O'Leary, Maureen (2007) Acleistochelys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides, Bothremydidae) from the Paleocene of Mali. American Museum Novitates. 3549. pp. 1-24.

Roberts, Eric M., and Tapanila, Leif (2006) A new social insect nest from the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 80 (4). pp. 768-774.

O'Leary, Maureen A., Roberts, Eric M., Bouare, Mohamed, Sissoko, Famory, and Tapanila, Leif (2006) Malian Paenungulata (Mammalia: Placentalia): new African afrotheres from the early Eocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26 (4). pp. 981-988.