1977

• Schwarzhans, W. 1977. Otolithen aus dem Unteroligozän (Tertiär) von Hückelhoven (Kreis Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen). Decheniana 130: 268–292. Reference page. 

1980

• Schwarzhans, W. 1980. Die tertiäre Teleosteer Fauna Neuseelands, rekonstruiert anhand von Otolithen. Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A, 26: 1–211. Reference page. 

1985

• Schwarzhans, W. 1985. Tertiäre Otolithen aus South Australia und Victoria (Australien). Palaeoichthyologica 3: 1–60. Reference page. 

1993

• Schwarzhans, W., 1993: A comparative morphological treatise of recent and fossil otoliths of the family Sciaenidae (Perciformes). Piscium Catalogus Part Otolithi Piscium. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, ISSN 0724-9012, ISBN 3-923871-70-8 PDF Reference page. 

2003

• Schwarzhans, W. 2003. Fish otoliths from the Paleocene of Denmark. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 2: 1-94.Reference page. 

2004

• Møller, P.R., Schwarzhans, W. & Nielsen, J.G. 2004. Review of the American Dinematichthyini (Teleostei: Bythitidae). Part I. Dinematichthys, Gunterichthys, Typhliasina and two new gerera. aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 8(4): 141–192. Reference page. 

2007

• Schwarzhans, W. 2007: The otoliths from the middle Eocene of Osteroden near Bramsche, north-western Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 244(3): 299-369. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0244-0299 Reference page. 
• Schwarzhans, W. & Møller, P. R., 2007: Review of the Dinematichthyini (Teleostei: Bythitidae) of the Indo-west Pacific. Part III. Beaglichthys, Brosmolus, Monothrix and eight new genera with description of 20 new species. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 23: 29-110. Reference page. 

2009

• Schwarzhans, W. & Wienrich, G. 2009. Otolithen. Pp. 958–1185 in Wienrich, G. (Ed.): Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), 5. Vertebraten. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers; Weikersheim: Margraf Publishers. Reference page. 

2010

• Schwarzhans, W. 2010. The Otoliths from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers; Weikersheim: Margraf Publishers. 352 pp. Reference page. 

2012

• Schwarzhans, W., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P. & Worthy, T.H. 2012. Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 319–350. DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0127 Reference page. 

2013

• Schwarzhans, W. 2013. Otoliths from the Miocene of West Africa, primarily from the Mandorové Formation of Gabon. Palaeo Ichthyologica 13: 151–184. PDF Reference page. 
• Schwarzhans, W. 2013. A comparative morphological study of the Recent otoliths of the genera Diaphus, Idiolychnus and Lobianchia (Myctophidae). Palaeo Ichthyologica 13: 41-82. Reference page. 
• Schwarzhans, W. & Aguilera, O.A. 2013. Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America. Palaeo Ichthyologica 13: 83–150. Reference page. 

2014

• Aguilera, O., Schwarzhans, W., Moraes-Santos, H. & Nepomuceno, A. 2014. Before the flood: Miocene otoliths from eastern Amazon Pirabas Formation reveal a Caribbean-type fish fauna. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 56: 422–446. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.09.021 Reference page. 
• Schwarzhans, W., 2014: Otoliths from the middle Miocene (Serravallian) of the Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research 14 (1): 35–69. Reference page. 

2015

• Bratishko, A., Schwarzhans, W., Reichenbacher, B., Vernyhorova, Y. & Ćorić, S., 2015: Fish otoliths from the Konkian (Miocene, early Serravallian) of Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan): testimony to an early endemic evolution in the Eastern Paratethys. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89 (4): 839–889. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-015-0274-4 Reference page. 
• Nakayama, N., Endo, H. & Schwarzhans, W., 2015: A new grenadier of the genus Hymenocephalus from Tosa Bay, southern Japan (Actinopterygii: Gadiformes: Macrouridae). Ichthyological Research, Published online: 22 March 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-015-0464-9

• Schwarzhans, W., Bradić, K. & Rundić, L. 2015. Fish-otoliths from the marine-brackish water transition from the Middle Miocene of the Belgrade area, Serbia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89(4): 815–837. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-015-0272-6 Reference page. 

2016

• Schwarzhans, W., Mörs, T., Engelbrecht, A., Reguero, M. & Kriwet, J. 2016. Before the freeze: otoliths from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica, reveal dominance of gadiform fishes (Teleostei). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Online edition. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1151958Reference page.  
• Aguilera, O.A., Schwarzhans, W. & Béarez, P. 2016. Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America. Palaeo Ichthyologica 14: 7–90. Reference page. 
• Schwarzhans, W. & Aguilera, O.A. 2016. Otoliths of the Ophidiiformes from the Neogene of tropical America. Palaeo Ichthyologica 14: 91–124. Reference page. 

2017

• Schwarzhans, W. & Prokofiev, A.W. 2017. Reappraisal of Synagrops Günther, 1887 with rehabilitation and revision of Parascombrops Alcock, 1889 including description of seven new species and two new genera (Perciformes: Acropomatidae). Zootaxa 4260(1): 1–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4260.1.1. Reference page.