Padian K; 1980, Studies of the structure of pterosaur (Reptilia, Pterosauria) Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 209 pp
Padian K. 1980, Note of a new specimen of pterosaur (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from the Norian (Upper Triassic) of Endenna, Italy. Riv.Mus.Sc.Nat.Bergamo 2: 119-127
Padian K; 1981, Note of a new specimen of Pterosaurs (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from the Norian (Upper Triassic) of Endenna, Italy, Rivista Museo Civico Scienze Naturale, 'E Caffi' 2(1980):119-127 Bergamo
Padian, K. 1982 Macroevolution and the origin of major adaptations: vertebrate flight as a paradigm for the analysis of patterns. Proc. 3rd North American Paleontological Convention, vol. 2, pp. 381–392.
Padian, K. 1982 Running, leaping, lifting off. Sciences 22 (5), 10–15.
Padian K; 1983, A functional analysis of flying and walking in pterosaurs, Paleobiology, Vol.9 No.3 pp.218-239 with 20 text figures and 1 table
Padian K; 1983, Osteology and Functional Morphology of Dimorphodon macronyx (Buckland) (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchoidea) based on new material in the Yale Peabody Museum, Postilla (Peabody Museum of Natural History), No.189, 1-44, 30 text figures and 1 table
Currie, J. P. & Padian K; 1983, A new pterosaur record from the Judith River (Oldman) Formation of Alberta, Journal of Paleontology, Vol.57 No.3 pp.509-600 with 2 text figures
Padian K; 1984, Pterosaur Remains from the Kayenta Formation (?early Jurassic) of Arizona, Palaeontology, Vol.27 Part.2 1984, Pp.407-413
Padian K; 1984, The Origin of Pterosaurs, Third Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecology, Pp.163-168 Tubingen, Attempto Verlag
Padian, K. 1984 Flight of fancy planned for the largest pterosaur. Nature, Lond. 311, 511.
Padian K; 1984, Pterosaur Remains from the Kayenta Formation (?early Jurassic) of Arizona, Palaeontology, Vol.27 Part.2 1984, Pp.407-413
Padian, K. & Olsen, P. E. 1984 The fossil trackway Pteraichnus: not pterosaurian, but crocodilian. J. Paleont. 58, 178–184.
Padian K; 1984, A Large Pterodactyloid Pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) of Montana, Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 4(4): 512-524 December 1984
Padian K; 1985, The origins and aerodynamics of flight in extinct vertebrates, Palaeontology, Vol.28 Part.3 pp.413-433 with 3 text figures and 1 table
Schwimmer D. R., Padian K., Woodhead A. F., 1985 The first pterosaur records from Georgia: open marine facies, Eutaw Formation (Santonian), Journal of Paleontology, 59(3): 674-676.
Padian, K. 1985 Pterosaurs: the recreation of an early flier. (University of Bristol)5, 2–5.
Padian K; 1986, A taxonomic note on two pterodactyloid families, Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 6(3):289
Padian, K. (ed.) 1986 The origin of birds and the evolution of flight. Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci. 8
Pennycuick, C. J. 1986 Mechanical constraints on the evolution of flight. In The origin of birds and the evolution of flight, ed. K. Padian, pp. 83–98.Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 8.
Padian, K. 1987 A comparative phylogenic and functional approach to the origin of vertebrate flight. (Fenton B., Racey P. A. and Rayner J. M. V., editors), Recent advances in the study of bats, CUP. pp. 3-22.
Padian, K. 1987 The case of the bat-winged pterosaur. Typological taxonomy and the influence of pictorial representation on scientific presentation. In Dinosaurs past and present, ed. S. J. Czerkas & E. C. Olson, volume II, pp. 65–81. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and University of Washington Press.
Padian K., de Ricqule A. and Horner J. R., 1997, Pterosaur bone histology: growth rates and mechanics. Proceedings of the fifth international congress of vertebrate morphology. Journal of morphology, 232(3), 306.
Padian K; 1988, The flight of pterosaurs, Natural History, 97(12):58-65
Padian K.: 1988, The holotype material of Dorygnathus banthensis, a pterosaur from the Early Jurassic of West Germany. J.vert.Paleont. 8 (3, Suppl.): 23A
Jensen, J. A. & Padian, K. 1989 Small pterosaurs and dinosaurs from the Uncompahgre fauna (Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation: ?Tithonian), late Jurassic, western Colorado.J. Paleont. 63, 363–374.
Padian, K. & Warheit, K. I. 1989 Morphometrics of the pterosaur wing: one sharp division, few trends. J. Vert. Paleont. 9 (3), 34A.
Padian, K. 1990 Flight, vertebrates. In Palaeobiology: a synthesis, ed. D. E. G. Briggs & P. R. Crowther, pp. 75–79. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Press.
Padian K. & Rayner J.M.V. 1991, Structural fibers of the pterosaur wing: anatomy and aerodynamics. J.Vert.Paleont. 11(3): 49A
Padian, K. 1991 Pterosaurs: were they functional birds or functional bats? In Biomechanics in evolution, ed. J. M. V. Rayner, pp. 145–160. Seminar Series of the Society for Experimental Biology, 36. Cambridge University Press.
Padian, K. 1992 Testing phylogenetic and functional hypotheses about the origins of flight in vertebrates. J. Vert. Paleont. 12 (suppl. 3), 46A.
Padian, K. & Rayner, J. M. V. 1992 The wings of pterosaurs. Am. J. Sci. 293-A, 91–166.
Padian K, & Smith M; 1992, New light on Late Cretaceous pterosaur material from Montana, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12(1), 87-92
Carter, D. R., Beaupré, G. S., & Padian, K. 1992 Evolutionary constraints imposed by skeletal developmental mechanics. Trans. Orthop. Res. Soc. 38th Ann. Meeting 17, 95.
Carter, D. R., Beaupré, G. S., van der Meulen, M. & Padian, K. 1992 Skeletal developmental mechanics and evolutionary constraints. J. Vert. Paleont. 12 (suppl. 3), 22A.
Van der Meulen, M. C. H., Padian, K. & Carter, D. R., 1992, Taxon-specific and functional adaptation characteristics of pterosaur bones. Trans. Orthop. Res. Soc., 38th Annual Meeting., 17(2), 537.
Carter, D. R., van der Meulen, M. C. H. & Padian, K. 1992 Historical and functional factors in the construction of pterosaur bones: a preliminary analysis.J. Vert. Paleont. 12 (suppl. 3), 21A.
Padian, K., van der Meulen, M. C. H. & Carter, D. R. 1992 Pterosaurs as optical illusions: allometry, ontogeny, and the mechanics of bone. PaleoBios 14 (suppl. 1), 5.
Padian K. & Wild R. 1992, Studies of Liassic Pterosauria, I. The Holotype and referred Specimens of the Liassic Pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori) in the Pretefaktensammlung Banz, Northern Bavaria. Paleontographica Abt.A 225(1-3): 59-77
Padian K & Rayner J M V; 1993, Structural fibres of the pterosaur wing: anatomy and aerodynamics. Naturwissenschaften 80: 361-364.
Padian K & Rayner J M V; 1993, The wing of pterosaurs, American Journal of Science, 293A:91-166
Padian K, Horner J R, de Recqles A J; 1993, A new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) of Montana, identified on the basis of bone histology, Journal of Vert. Paleont., 13:52A
Bell, C. M. & Padian, K. 1994 A pterosaur colony on an inland desert plain: implications for paleoecology. J.Vert.Paleont. 14 (3), 16A–17A.
Padian, K. 1994 Archetypal physiology and the interpretation of pterosaurs: the conflict between Owen and Seeley, 1870. J. Vert. Palaeont. 14 (3), 41A.
Bell, C. M. & Padian, K. 1995 Pterosaur fossils from the Cretaceous of Chile—evidence for pterosaur colony on an inland desert plain. Geol. Mag. 132, 31–38.
Padian, K. 1995 Form vs. function: the evolution of a dialectic. In Vertebrate Palaeontology and Functional Morphology, ed. J. Thomason. Cambridge University Press.
Padian, K. 1995 Pterosaurians and ?avians from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic, Western U.S.). Mod. Geol. 23, 57–68.
Padian, K. 1995 Pterosaurs and typology: archetypal physiology in the Owen-Seeley dispute of 1870. In Vertebrate Fossils and the Evolution of Scientific Concepts, ed. W. A. S. Sarjeant, pp. 285–298. Gordon and Breach.
Padian, K., de Ricqlès, A. J. & Horner, J. R. 1995 Bone histology determines identification of a new fossil taxon of pterosaur (Reptilia, Archosauria). Compts Rendus a l'Acad. de Sci. Paris IIA 320, 77–84.
Padian, K., Gauthier, J. A. & Fraser, N. C. 1995 Scleromochlus taylori and the early evolution of pterosaurs. J. Vert. Paleont. 15 (3), 47A.
Padian, K. 1996 Terrestrial locomotion in pterosaurs. J. Vert. Paleont. 16 (3), 57A.
Currie P. J., Padian K., (eds) 1997, Pterosauria, Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Academic Press, pp. 613-617.
Padian, K. 1997 Pterosaurs and ?Avians from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic, Western U.S.). Modern Geology.
Padian, K. 1998. Pterosaurs and ?avians from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic, Western U.S.). Modern Geology 23: 57-68.
Ji, S.-A., Ji, Q. & Padian, K. 1999 Biostratigraphy of new pterosaurs from China. Nature 398, 573–574.
de Ricqlès, A. J., Padian K., Horner J. R., and Francillon-Viellot H. 2000 Paleohistology of the bones of pterosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria): anatomy, ontogeny, and biomechanical implications. Zool. J. of the Linn. Soc. 129: 349-385
Jenkins F. A. Jr., Shubin N. H., Gatesby S. M. and Padian K., 2001, A diminutive pterosaur (Pterosauria: Eudimorphodontidae) from the Greenlandic Triassic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. vol. 156(1), pp.151-170 (Eudimorphodon comptonellus).
Padian K.; 2003, Pterosaur stance and gait and the interpretation of pterosaur trackways, Ichnos vol. 10, p 115-162.
Padian, K., Horner, J. R., and de Ricqles, A., 2004, Growth in small dinosaurs and pterosaurs: the evolution of archosaurian growth strategies: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol.24, no.4, p. 555-571.
Padian, K; Faux, C M, 2007, The opisthotonic posture of vertebrate skeletons: postmortem contraction or death throes? Paleobiology,