OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Paleontology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ectoparasite borings, mesoparasite borings, and scavenging traces in early Miocene turtle and tortoise shell: Moghra Formation, Wadi Moghra, Egypt	21
New insights on the Early Pleistocene equids from Roca-Neyra (France, central Europe): implications for theHipparionLAD and theEquusFAD in Europe	20
CeutorhynchusGermar (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) as proxy for Eocene core Brassicaceae: first record of the genus from Rovno amber	19
Early Cambrian (Stage 4) brachiopods from the Shipai Formation in the Three Gorges area of South China	16
A ten-faced hexangulaconulariid from Cambrian Stage 2 of South China	15
The first records of mollusks from mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber (Myanmar), with the description of a land snail, Euthema myanmarica n. sp. (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoroidea, Diplommatinidae)	15
Shale-hosted biota from the Dismal Lakes Group in Arctic Canada supports an early Mesoproterozoic diversification of eukaryotes	15
The nasal cavity of two traversodontid cynodonts (Eucynodontia, Gomphodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Brazil	14
Systematic paleontology, acritarch biostratigraphy, and δ¹³C chemostratigraphy of the early Ediacaran Krol A Formation, Lesser Himalaya, northern India	13
Taxonomic revision of Ediacaran tubular fossils: Cloudina, Sinotubulites and Conotubus	12
New records of injured Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites	11
Ediacaran diversity and paleoecology from central Iran	11
A new alligatoroid (Eusuchia, Crocodylia) from the Eocene of China and its implications for the relationships of Orientalosuchina	10
The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA	10
Articulated trilobite ontogeny: suggestions for a methodological standard	10
Paleoecology of naticid–molluscan prey interaction during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) in Kutch, India: evolutionary implications	9
A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity	9
The Miocene fossil lizards from Kutch (Gujarat), India: a rare window to the past diversity of this subcontinent	9
Paleontology and ichnology of the late Ediacaran Nasep–Huns transition (Nama Group, southern Namibia)	8
New sphenodontian (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from a novel Late Triassic paleobiota in western North America sheds light on the earliest radiation of herbivorous lepidosaurs	8
Typhlocybinae leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) from Eocene Rovno amber reveal a transition in wing venation and a defensive adaptation	8
Corynexochine trilobites of the Harkless Formation and Mule Spring Limestone (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4), Clayton Ridge, Nevada	7
Warm-waterTcherskidiumfauna (Brachiopoda) in the Late Ordovician Northern Hemisphere of Laurentia and peri-Laurentia	7
A new early-diverging sphenodontian (Lepidosauria, Rhynchocephalia) from the Upper Triassic of Virginia, U.S.A.	7
An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)	7

Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world	7
Description of the metoposauridAnaschisma brownifrom the New Oxford Formation of Pennsylvania	7
A new titanopteranMagnatitan jongheonin. gen. n. sp. from southwestern Korean Peninsula	7
Late Cretaceous sturgeons (Acipenseridae) from North America, with two new species from the Tanis site in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota	7
New cynodonts (Therapsida, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic of India and their significances	7
The oldest known record of a ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Folivora) from Hispaniola: evolutionary and paleobiogeographical implications	7
Diverse labechiid stromatoporoids from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China and their paleobiogeographic implications	7
A new species of Sclerocephalus with a fully ossified endocranium gives insight into braincase evolution in temnospondyls	7
A new faunistic component of the Lower Triassic Panchet Formation of India increases the continental non-archosauromorph neodiapsid record in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction	7
New rhynchonellid and spire-bearing brachiopods from the Carboniferous of Mexico. Paleogeographical significance of the Oaxacan brachiopod fauna through the Serpukhovian–Moscovian	6
“Ptychoparioid” trilobites of the Harkless Formation and Mule Spring Limestone (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4), Clayton Ridge, Nevada	6
A late Cisuralian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Taungnyo Group in the Zwekabin Range, eastern Myanmar and its biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and tectonic implications	6
Ediacaran metazoan fossils with siliceous skeletons from the Digermulen Peninsula of Arctic Norway	6
Lower Famennian (Upper Devonian) rhynchonellide and athyride brachiopods from the South Armenian Block	6
Upside down: ‘Cryobatrachus’ and the lydekkerinid record from Antarctica	5
The first documentation of an Ordovician eurypterid (Chelicerata) from China	5
Deciduous dentition and dental eruption sequence in Interatheriinae (Notoungulata, Interatheriidae): implications in the systematics of the group	5
Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods from central Sonora, Mexico: affinities with Laurentia and the Precordillera	5
Systematic paleontology of macroalgal fossils from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup	5
Synchrotron imagery of phosphatized eggs in Waptia cf. W. fieldensis from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian, Wuliuan) Spence Shale of Utah	5
Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of fusulinid foraminifera across the Upper Mississippian (upper Serpukhovian)–Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) successions from the Hadim Nappe, Central Taurides, southern	5
A new Early Triassic brachiopod fauna from southern Tibet, China: Implications on brachiopod recovery and the late Smithian extinction in southern Tethys	5
A new cheilostome bryozoan from a dinosaur site in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation of Montana	5
Katian (Late Ordovician) conodonts on the northwestern margin of the North China Craton	5
Middle Ordovician (middle Darriwilian) Archaeospicularia and Entactinaria (radiolarians) from the Table Cove Formation, Piccadilly Quarry, Newfoundland, Canada	5
Amsassia(calcareous alga) from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) of western Newfoundland, and the biologic affinity and geologic history of the genus	5
Cornulitid tubeworms and other calcareous tubicolous organisms from the Hirmuse Formation (Katian, Upper Ordovician) of northern Estonia	5
Progress in understanding middle Eocene nassellarian (Radiolaria, Polycystinea) diversity; new insights from the western equatorial Atlantic Ocean	4
Systematics of 12 Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Paleogene squat lobster taxa (Galatheoidea)	4
A eurypterid trackway from the Middle Ordovician of New York State	4
Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) conodonts from the Alengchu section, western Yunnan, China	4
A probable skeleton ofIsisfordia(Crocodyliformes) and additional crocodyliform remains from the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian, New South Wales, Australia)	4
Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy	4
Triassic Foraminifera from the Great Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin, south China: taxonomic account, biostratigraphy, and implications for recovery from end-Permian mass extinction	4
Miocene instead of Jurassic: the importance of sound fieldwork for paleontological data analysis	4
New Thylacocephala (Crustacea) assemblage from the Spathian (Lower Triassic) of Majiashan (Chaohu, Anhui Province, South China)	4
An Early Devonian clam shrimp community from Hunan Province, China	4
History of the Giraffe Pipe locality inferred from microfossil remains: a thriving freshwater ecosystem near the Arctic Circle during the warm Eocene	4
Revision of Ordovician chitinozoan Lagenochitina esthonica sensu lato: morphometrics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography	4
Grylloblattidan insects from Sperbersbach and Cabarz (Germany), two new early Permian and insect-rich localities	4
Two new eurypterids (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) from the upper Silurian Yulongsi Formation of south-west China	4
The rangeomorph fossil Charnia from the Ediacaran Shibantan biota in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China	4
A new genus of treeshrew and other micromammals from the middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar, Udhampur District, Jammu and Kashmir, India	4
Late Sandbian (Sa2) radiolarians of the Pingliang Formation from the Guanzhuang section, Gansu Province, China	4
Adaptive function and phylogenetic significance of novel skeletal features of a new Devonian microconchid tubeworm (Tentaculita) from Wyoming, USA	4
A new dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Allegheny Group (late Carboniferous) of Five Points, Mahoning County, Ohio (USA)	4
Development of the early Cambrian oryctocephalid trilobiteOryctocarella duyunensisfrom western Hunan, China	4
Geometric morphometric analysis for the systematic elucidation of new Hylicellidae from the Jurassic of China (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha)	4
Rhinocerotidae from the early Miocene of the Negev (Israel) and implications for the dispersal of early Neogene rhinoceroses	4
An updated generic classification of Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods, with new records from the Oligocene and early Miocene of India	3

New late Eocene and Oligocene plotopterid fossils from Washington State (USA), with a revision of “Tonsala” buchanani (Aves, Plotopteridae)	3
Paleotethyan faunal/floral evidence in the Mississippian Maritimes Basin of Canada: An overview	3
Puercosuchus traverorum n. gen. n. sp.: a new malerisaurine azendohsaurid (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from two monodominant bonebeds in the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic, Norian) of A	3
Cavity-dwelling microorganisms from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of North Greenland (Laurentia)	3
Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins	3
Arnebolagus, the oldest eulagomorph, and phylogenetic relationships within the Eocene Eulagomorpha new clade (Mammalia, Duplicidentata)	3
Nonmarine ostracod fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Shinekhudag Formation (southwest Mongolia): taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology	3
The first record of Hirnantian Ostracoda in South America: implications for the biostratigraphy and paleozoogeography of the Paraná basin	3
Crinoid calyx origin from stem radial echinoderms	3
Three new cribrimorph bryozoans (order Cheilostomatida) from the early Miocene of Argentina, with a discussion on spinocystal shield morphologies	3
Revision ofHistiodella labiosaBauer, 2010, and its inferred phylogeny in the evolution of the Middle Ordovician conodont genusHistiodellaHarris, 1962	3
Micromammals from the late early Miocene of Çapak (western Anatolia) herald a time of change	3
The first Middle Ordovician and Gondwanan record of the cincinnaticrinid crinoidOhiocrinus byeongseonin. sp. from South Korea: biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography, and taphonomy	3
Brachiopods from the Latham Shale Lagerstätte (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) and Cadiz Formation (Miaolingian, Wuliuan), California	3
The smooth, spire-bearing brachiopods after the terminal Ordovician extinction through lower Llandovery in the central Oslo region, Norway	3
The earliest example of sexual dimorphism in bivalves—evidence from the astartid Nicaniella (Lower Jurassic, southern Germany)	3
Platymerella—a cool-water virgianid brachiopod fauna in southern Laurentia during the earliest Silurian	3
Quaternary equatorial Atlantic deep-sea ostracodes: evidence for a distinct tropical fauna in the deep sea	3
Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) new trilobites from the Upper Yangtze Region, South China, and their macroevolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications	3
A new, giant ricinuleid (Arachnida, Ricinulei), from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois, and the identification of a new, ontogenetically stable, diagnostic character	3
OnCallavia(Trilobita) from the Cambrian Series 2 of Iberia with systematic status of the genus	3
The termite genus Glyptotermes (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) in Miocene amber from Ethiopia	3
The larval brachyopid Platycepsion wilkinsoni from the Triassic of New South Wales provides insight into the stereospondyl life cycle	3
Rise of clathrodictyid stromatoporoids during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: insights from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China	3
Araucariaceous fossil woods from the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation (San Juan Province, Argentina): paleofloristic and paleoclimatic implications	3
Feeding in the Devonian antiarch placoderm fishes: a study based upon morphofunctional analysis of jaws	3
The Inachoididae spider crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the Neogene of the tropical Americas	3
A new species ofHirnantia(Orthida, Brachiopoda) and its implications for the Hirnantian age of the Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada	3
A new marrellomorph arthropod from southern Ontario: a rare case of soft-tissue preservation on a Late Ordovician open marine shelf	3
Morphology and paleobiology of the Late Cretaceous large-sized sharkCretodus crassidens(Dixon, 1850) (Neoselachii; Lamniformes)	3