A. C., Higgins: Some Namurian conodonts from North Staffordshire, Geological Magazine, 98, 210-224, 1961.
A. C., Higgins: Conodonts from the Griotte Limestone of NW Spain, Notas y Comunicaciones del Instituto Geologico y Minero; Espana, 65, 5-22, 1962a.
A. C., Higgins: An investigation of the distribution of conodont faunas in the Namurian of the South PenninesUnpublished PhD ThesisUniversity of Sheffield., 1962b.
A. C., Higgins: The significance of conodonts in the Carboniferous of Europe, Proceedings of Subcommission of Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Sheffield, 1965, 69-75, 1965.
A. C., Higgins: The age of the Durine Member of the Durness Limestone Formation at Durness, Scottish Journal of Geology, 3, 382-388, 1967a.
A. C., Higgins: Conodont biostratigraphy of the late Devonian–early Carboniferous rocks of the south central Cantabrian Cordillera, Trabajos de Geologia Universidad de Ovieda, 3, 179-192, 1971.
A. C., Higgins: Conodont zonation of the Lower Carboniferous of Spain and Portugal, Belgian Geological Survey, International Symposium on Belgian Micropalaeontological Limits (Namur, 1974), 4, 1-17, 1974.
A. C., Higgins: Conodont zonation of the Late Viséan–Early Westphalian strata of the south and central Pennines of northern England, Bulletin of the Geological Survey Great Britain, 53, 1-90, 1975.
A. C., Higgins: The distribution of conodonts in relation to the palaeogeography of the late Viséan–Namurian time
In: (Eds), Microfossils from recent and shelf seasEllis Horwood Ltd, Chichester, 37–51., 1981a.
A. C., Higgins: Coprolitic conodont assemblages from the Lower Westphalian of North Staffordshire, Palaeontology, 24, 437-441, 1981b.
A. C., Higgins: The position and correlation of the boundary between the proposed Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Subsystems, Newsletters in Stratigraphy, 9, 176-182, 1981c.
A. C., Higgins: Mid-Carboniferous boundary in the Western Europe conodont sequence
In: (Eds), Biostratigraphic data for a Mid Carboniferous Boundary; IUGS Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Leeds, 13–14., 1982.
A. C., Higgins: The Carboniferous System: Part 2 Conodonts of the Silesian Subsystem from Great Britain and Ireland
In: (Eds), A Stratigraphic Index of ConodontsEllis Horwood, Chichester, 210–227., 1985.
A. C., Higgins and J., Bouckaert: Conodont stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Namurian of Belgium, Memoires du Service Géologique de Belqique, 10, 1-51, 1968.
A. C., Higgins, C. H. T., Wagner-Gentis and R. H., Wagner: Basal Carboniferous strata in part of northern Leon, NW Spain: stratigraphy, conodont and goniatite faunas, Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie, Paléontologie, Hydrologie, 72, 205-248, 1964.
A. C., Higgins, B. C., Richards and C. M., Henderson: Conodont biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the uppermost Devonian and Carboniferous of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
In: (Eds), Ordovician to Triassic conodont paleontology of the Canadian CordileraGeological Survey of Canada, Bulletin, 417: 215–251., 1991.
W. H. C., Ramsbottom, A. C., Higgins and B., Owens: Palaeontological characterisation of the Namurian of the stratotype area (A report of the Namurian Working Group), Compte Rendu 8eme Congres International de Stratigraphie et de Géologie Carbonifere (Moscow 1975), 3, 85-99, 1979.
N. J., Soper, C., Downie, A. C., Higgins and L., Costa: Biostratigraphic ages of the Tertiary basalts on the East Greenland continentalmargin and their relationship to plate separation in the North Atlantic, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 32, 149-157, 1976.
N. J., Soper, A. C., Higgins, C., Downie, D., Matthews and P. E., Brown: Late Cretaceous–early Tertiary stratigraphy of the Kangerdlungssuaq area, East Greenland and the opening of the northeast Atlantic, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 132, 85-104, 1976.
W. J., Varker and A. C., Higgins: Conodont evidence for the age of the Pinskey Gill Beds of Ravenstonedale, northwest England, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 42, 357-369, 1979.
R. H., Wagner and A. C., Higgins: The Carboniferous of the USSR: its stratigraphic significance and outstanding problems of world-wide correlation
In: (Eds), The Carboniferous of the USSRYorkshire Geological SocietyOccasional Publication, 4: 5–22., 1979.