Ma Xueping. 1995. The type species of the brachiopod Yunnanellina from the Devonian of South China. Palaeontology, 38(2):385-405.
Ma Xueping. 1998. Latest Frasnian Atrypida (Brachiopoda) from South China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 43(2):345-360.
Ma Xueping and Jed Day. 1999. The Late Devonian brachiopod Cyrtiopsis davidsoni Grabau, 1923 and related forms from central Hunan of South China. Journal of Paleontology, 73(4):608-624.
Ma Xueping and Jed Day. 2000. Revision of Tenticospirifer Tien, 1938, and similar spiriferid brachiopod genera from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) of Eurasia, North America, and Australia. Journal of Paleontology, 74(3): 444-463.
Ma Xueping, Sun YUANLIN, Hao Weicheng, and Liao Weihua. 2002. Rugose corals and brachiopods across the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in central Hunan, south China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 47 (2): 373-396.
Ma Xueping and Bai Shunliang. 2002. Biological, depositional, microspherule, and geochemical records of the platformal Frasnian-Famennian boundary beds, Hunan, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 181 (1-3): 325-346.
Ma Xueping and Jed Day. 2003. Revision of selected North American and Eurasian Late Devonian (Frasnian) species of Cyrtospirifer and Regelia (Brachiopoda). Journal of Paleontology, 77(2):267-292.
Ma Xueping and Day, J. 2007. Morphology and revision of Late Devonian (Early Famennian) Cyrtospirifer (Brachiopoda) and related genera from South China and North America. Journal of Paleontology 81(2), pp. 286-311.
Ma Xueping, Volker Ebbighausen, R. Thomas Becker. 2008. Desquamatia and related atrypid brachiopods from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Bergisches Land, Germany. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45(2): 121-134.
Ma Xue-Ping, Wang Cheng-Yuan, Grzegorz Racki, Maria Racka. 2008. Facies and geochemistry across the Early-Middle Frasnian transition (Late Devonian) on South China carbonate shelf: comparison with the Polish reference succession. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 269 (2008) 130–151.