OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Paleontology is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Response by Gabriel-Philip Santos for the presentation of the 2022 Pojeta Award of the Paleontological Society	16
Skeletobiont serpulids on the xanthid crab Lathahypossia aculeata from the middle Eocene of the Chiampo Valley, Vicenza (Northeast Italy)	15
Late Ordovician ostracods of Valcour Island, New York, USA	15
JPA volume 98 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	14
Earliest western Atlantic staghorn corals (Acropora) from the lower Oligocene Suwannee Limestone of Florida, USA, and their significance for modern coral distribution	13
The first canid from the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee: new perspective on the distribution and ecology ofBorophagus	12
A diverse brittle star (Ophiuroidea: Echinodermata) fauna from the Upper Mississippian (Serpukhovian) of Sulphur, Indiana, USA, and its implications for late Paleozoic brittle star biodiversity	12
Revision ofEothinocerasand the status of the Eothinoceratidae (Cyrtocerinida, Multiceratoidea, Cephalopoda)	11
Global evolutionary relationships of Devonian proetide trilobites	11
Acceptance of the 2023 Paleontological Society Strimple Award by Brian Hebert	10
Emperor penguin’s fossil relatives inhabited subtropical waters	10
The Late Miocene Plesiosoricidae and Soricidae (Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Pannonian region, Slovakia	10
An Oligocene chimaeroid egg capsule from western Washington State, USA, and priority of Vaillantoonia Meunier, 1891	9
Domipteron, a new genus of Calopterini from Miocene Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Lycidae)	9
JPA volume 96 S90 Cover and Front matter	9
Recovery of Laurentian cyclocystoids following Late Ordovician extinctions (Brassfield Formation, Llandovery; southwestern Ohio)	8
Devonian stromatoporoid historical collections in the Natural History Museum, London (UK): redescription, taxonomic revision and implications for stromatoporoid global paleobiogeography	8
JPA volume 98 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
History of the Giraffe Pipe locality inferred from microfossil remains: a thriving freshwater ecosystem near the Arctic Circle during the warm Eocene	8
First record of Carcharodontosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Upper Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation of Uzbekistan	8
Transfer of the holotype of the echinoid Hyattechinus pentagonus Jackson, 1912 from Allegheny College to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, with dis	7
Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins	7
Procolophonids display unique tooth morphologies in relation to reptilian herbivory	7
The first documentation of an Ordovician eurypterid (Chelicerata) from China	7
Ostracod faunas from the Late Mississippian–Early Pennsylvanian, Calingasta–Uspallata Basin, central west Argentina: new records from glacial–postglacial successions	7

Rodneyellus feldmanni n. gen. n. sp., a new hexapodid crab from tropical America (Crustacea, Brachyura)	7
Taxonomic revision of the Triassic brachiopod genus Angustothyris and its phylogenetic implications	7
Typhlocybinae leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) from Eocene Rovno amber reveal a transition in wing venation and a defensive adaptation	7
New findings of Decapoda (Crustacea) in the Callovian of the Ryazan region (Central European Russia)	7
Trilobites from theCedaria prolificaZone (Cambrian, upper Guzhangian) of the Precordillera of Mendoza, western Argentina	6
Presentation of the 2021 Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Melanie Jane Hopkins	6
Presentation of the 2025 Paleontological Society Medal to Michael J. Benton	6
Gerpegezhus daniaoriundus : a new species of centriscoid fish (Gerpegezhidae) from the Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark	6
Quantified growth and possible heterochronic development of two corynexochid trilobites from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) Mount Cap Formation, eastern Mackenzie Mountains, n	6
Well-preserved Rothpletzella microencruster on a brachiopod shell from the Upper Ordovician of Estonia	6
Presentation of the 2022 Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Matt Friedman	6
The genus Euthria (Gastropoda, Tudiclidae) in the Pliocene of the Atlantic Mondego Basin of Portugal: a glocal taxon in the Atlanto-Mediterranean Neogene	6
Faunal and paleoenvironmental changes at a Cambrian (Jiangshanian; Steptoean–Sunwaptan boundary interval) trilobite extinction event, in contrasting deep- and shallow-subtidal settings, Nevada and Okl	6
Organic-walled microfossils from the Ediacaran Sete Lagoas Formation, Bambuí Group, Southeast Brazil: taxonomic and biostratigraphic analyses	5
The Cambrian (Paibian–Jiangshanian; Steptoean) dokimocephalid trilobite Deckera Frederickson, 1949 in Laurentian North America	5
Sympatric speciation driving evolution of Late Ordovician brachiopodZygospirain eastern North America	5
Verrocaris kerrymatti n. gen. n. sp., a new “misfit” anomalocaridid radiodont (Euarthropoda) from the Kinzers Formation (Cambrian, Series 2, Stage 4) of Pennsylvania and its	5
Eocene and Oligocene ceriantharian tubes	5
The Antarctic’s Gondwanan cousin: a new Dynomenidae (Crustacea, Dromioidea) from the Santa Marta Formation, James Ross Basin, Antarctica	5
Sivatupaia ramnagarensis and the origin of the subfamily Crocidurinae (Soricidae, Mammalia)	5
New species of Liostracina Monke, 1903 (Trilobita, Cambrian) from Yunnan, China: complete holaspid exoskeleton and implications for higher level classification	5
Taxonomic utility of isolated ankylosaurian dinosaur teeth using traditional and geometric morphometrics with implications for ankylosaur paleoecology	5
JPA volume 99 S99 Cover and Front matter	5
The heterobranch subgenusTrochactaeon(Trochactaeon) in the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of the northern Arabian Platform and its paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic implications	5
Ontogenetic morphology changes in a crab assemblage (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dakoticancroida) from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Mississippi Embayment, USA	5
Latest Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolites of northwest Peninsular Malaysia	4
Response by Scott L. Wing for the presentation of the 2021 Paleontological Society Medal	4
Mollusks and Stenothecoides from Cambrian Stage 4 ( Ovatoryctocara granulata assemblage	4
Micro-CT analysis of Katian radiolarians from the Malongulli Formation, New South Wales, Australia, and implications for skeletogenesis	4
New records of injured Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites – ERRATUM	4
Early Devonian pterygotid eurypterids from Yunnan Province, China	4
Ventral cephalic structure of Archikainiella (Trilobita, Lichida, Lichakephalidae) from the Cambrian of South China	4
First occurrence of well-preserved Ordovician trilobites of the family Olenidae from Africa	4
Reverse drill holes: remarkable mistakes made by gastropod predators attacking Neogene bivalve prey – ERRATUM	4
Rebuilding the foundation of late Paleozoic pinnid bivalve study (family Pinnidae)	4
Comment on: Fürsich et al., 2023, Miocene instead of Jurassic: the importance of sound fieldwork for paleontological data analysis	4
Morphology, variation, and systematics of the late Cambrian Laurentian dikelocephalid trilobite Walcottaspis vanhornei (Walcott, 1914)	3
Coprolite-filled borings: insight into the life history of detritivorous Pennsylvanian terrestrial arthropods	3
Presentation of the 2024 Paleontological Society Medal to Mary L. Droser	3
Parasitic infestation in a Middle Ordovician Illaenus (Trilobita)	3
A novel antennal form in trilobites	3
Late Ordovician cornulitids from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, and their evolutionary implications	3
A diverse chitinozoan record from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region (Kentucky, USA)	3
JPA volume 97 S92 Cover and Front matter	3
Elongate Ediacaran fronds from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia	3
Distribution of the Silurian brachiopod genusAtrypoidea, and its first report in the Chejiaba Formation (upper Ludlow), Guangyuan, South China	3
Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy	3
New paromomyids (Mammalia, Primates) from the Paleocene of southwestern Alberta, Canada, and an analysis of paromomyid interrelationships	3
JPA volume 99 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
A diverse early Miocene (Burdigalian) turritelline-dominated gastropod assemblage from the Dwarka Basin of Kathiawar Peninsula, western India	3

A remarkable spiny arachnid from the Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Illinois	3
New material of Lophiparamys debequensis from the Willwood Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming, including the first postcrania of the genus	3
New soft-bodied panarthropods from diverse Spence Shale (Cambrian; Miaolingian; Wuliuan) depositional environments	3
Crinoid calyx origin from stem radial echinoderms	3
Copelatus diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from early Miocene Mexican amber, with description of a new species displaying distinct sexual dimorphism	2
Morphometric analyses of Gnathodus pseudosemiglaber (Conodonta, Mississippian) and implications for its taxonomy, phylogeny and biostratigraphy	2
Species discrimination in the multituberculate Mesodma Jepsen, 1940 (Mammalia, Allotheria): considerations of size, shape, and form	2
JPA volume 96 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	2
Paleogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance of ostracodes from the Pennsylvanian Nagaiwa Formation, northeast Japan	2
Mammals of the early Arikareean (“middle” Oligocene) Jones Branch Local Fauna, southeastern Mississippi, USA, with notes on two older taxa from the state and the timing of Midcontinent–Gulf Coastal Pl	2
Nomenclatural notes on Posidonomya clarae Emmrich, 1844, the type species of Claraia Bittner, 1901	2
New fish assemblages from the Carboniferous deep-water sections of South China and Western Kazakhstan	2
Goryeocrinus pentagrammos n. gen. n. sp. (Rhodocrinitidae; Diplobathrida), the first record of camerate crinoid from the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) of South Korea (East Gondwana)	2
A eurypterid trackway from the Middle Ordovician of New York State	2
Thecate medusozoan polyp from the Upper Ordovician of Québec	2
JPA volume 98 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	2
Parallel evolution of unusual ‘harpiform’ morphologies in distantly related trilobites	2
Cambrian (Stage 4 to Wuliuan) brachiopods from Sonora, Mexico	2
Ancient Basidiomycota in an extinct conifer-like tree, Xenoxylon utahense, and a brief survey of fungi in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA	2
Obruchevodid petalodonts (Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Obruchevodidae) from the Middle Mississippian (Viséan) Joppa Member of the Ste. Genevieve Formation at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky	2
Acceptance of the Paleontological Society Schuchert Award	2
New hemipteran insects (Hylicellidae, Ipsviciidae, Heteroptera) from the Triassic Cow Branch Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, USA	2
A new xandarellid euarthropod from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia	2
Filling the early Eocene gap of paguroids (Decapoda, Anomura): a new highly diversified fauna from the Spanish Pyrenees (Serraduy Formation, Graus-Tremp Basin)	2
Putting a crinoid on a stalk: new evidence on the Devonian diplobathrid camerate Monstrocrinus	2
Description of Willipteria, a new genus of late Paleozoic pterioid bivalves, and redescription of Leptodesma Hall	2
The first discovery of Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) conodonts in central Guangxi, South China and its geological implications	2
JPA volume 97 issue 4 Cover	2
Earltonella fredricksi n. gen n. sp. and Thalassocystis striata (Chlorophyta, Bryopsidales) from the Silurian (Llandoverian) of the Timiskaming outlier, Ontario, Canada	2
The scientific career of Rodney M. Feldmann, 1939–2024	2
Phylogenetic affinity between Archeoentactinia and the Entactinaria: evidence from the middle Cambrian Inca Formation, Georgina Basin, Australia, and Low	2
Fossil tip-dating reveals novelties on evolutionary and diversification trends in three Late Ordovician brachiopod genera (Atrypida, Anazygidae)	2
JPA volume 98 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
JPA volume 97 S93 Cover and Front matter	2
Colonization and defaunation on a small island: evidence from Quaternary fossils of Sombrero Island	2
Covariable changes of septal spacing and conch shape during early ontogeny: a common characteristic between Perisphinctina and Ancyloceratina (Ammonoidea, Cephalopoda)	2
First virtual endocast description of an early Miocene representative of Pan-Octodontoidea (Caviomorpha, Hystricognathi) and considerations on the early encephalic evolution in South American rodents	2
The family Gomphocystitidae (Echinodermata, Diploporita) and the functional morphology of spiral ambulacra	2
An overview of the Carboniferous malacostracan clade Belotelsonidea and a new Pennsylvanian species of Lobetelson – ERRATUM	2
Agalope oshikirii n. sp., the first chalcosiine fossil (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) from Akita Prefecture, Japan	2
The first evidence of iguanians and scincoids from the lower Eocene of the Cos locality (Phosphorites du Quercy, France)	2
Examining the ontogeny of the Pennsylvanian cladid crinoid Erisocrinus typus Meek and Worthen, 1865	2
Conulariid soft parts replicated in silica from the Scotch Grove Formation (lower Middle Silurian) of east-central Iowa	2
A reappraisal of Nemavermes mackeei from the Mazon Creek fossil site expands Carboniferous cyclostome diversity	2
JPA volume 99 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Virtual taphonomy of trilobite heads: understanding compressive deformation using 3D modeling and rigid body simulation	2
Ontogeny and mineralization in Dasycladales: the case of two new species of triploporellaceans (green algae, Dasycladales) from the Lower Cretaceous Rarău Syncline (Romania)	2
Response by Matt Friedman for the presentation of the 2022 Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society	2