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Papers

(The median citation count of Lethaia 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	52
CrowdedTrichophycusichnofabrics in the early Ordovician successions of central Iran: insight into the Ordovician radiation	18
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	16
Discovery of plant cuticles in phyllite, late Pennsylvanian Southern Anthracite Field, eastern Pennsylvania, USA: a new research resource?	12
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	11
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	11
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	11
Ferruginous casts of bromalites in kaolin beds: microbial ferrihydrite‐goethite transformation as early stage taphonomy in lacustrine and riparian sediments	10
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	10
Shell microstructures of latest Permian Rugosochonetidae (Brachiopoda): evidence from SEM‐ and CT‐scanned shell materials	9
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	9
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	9
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	9
Eurypterid morphology and implications for ecdysis and evolutionary longevity	8
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	8
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	8
Identification of conodont fossils in pelagic deep‐sea siliceous sedimentary rocks using laboratory‐based X‐ray computed microtomography	7
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	7
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	7
Environmental interpretation of giant trace fossils from the lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Iberian Chain (Spain) from lithofacies, microfossil and ichnofossil assemblages	6
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	6
Carboniferous–Permian conodonts and the age of the lower Cutler Group in the Bears Ears National Monument and vicinity, Utah, USA	6
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	6
Newly discovered Wuchiapingian to Olenekian conodonts from the Longgar area, southern Lhasa Terrane and their palaeobiogeographical implications	6
Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern-most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia	6

Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	6
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	6
Evaluating the role of coastal hypoxia on the transient expansion of microencruster intervals during the early Aptian	6
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	5
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	5
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	5
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways ofNummulitestests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	5
Nothosaur tracks from the Middle Triassic of Spain suggest a global distribution for distinctive swim track assemblages	5
Cirrus versus radice: a brief study of confused crinoid terminology	5
A demineralized osteostracan fossil from the Silurian Kalana Lagerstätte of Estonia: revealing its internal anatomy and uncovering a unique type of fossilization	5
Quaternary environmental evolution of the Argentinean Pampa Deprimida based on mollusc and ostracod analysis	4
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	4
Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	4
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nektonic biodiversity and vegetation shifts during the Smithian–Spathian transition: conodont and palynomorph insights from Svalbard	4
Lower and upper jaws of the Early Permian goniatitid ammonoids	4
ThalassinoidesandOlenichnusin the Terreneuvian carbonates of the Igarka Uplift, NW Siberian Platform	4
The shell fabric of Palaeozoic brachiopods: patterns and trends	4
Early Jurassic coral reef development outside Tethys: an example from western Argentina	4
Dental histology and attachment tissues in Notosuchus terrestris (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia): palaeobiological implications	4
Neoichnology of the burrowing mayfly Tortopus circumfluus and its bearing on the ichnofossil Glossifungites gingrasi	4
Palaeotectonic reconstructions of the Central Asian folded belt in the Silurian Tuvaella and Retziella brachiopod fauna locations	4
Integrated stratigraphical study of the Rhuddanian-Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) boundary succession in the Rheidol Gorge, Wales: a proposed Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the A	4
Early Palaeozoic Discinocarina: a key to the appearance of cephalopod jaws	4
Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia	3
From lagoons to mud mounds: palaeoecology of the Givetian to Frasnian stromatoporoids from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland	3
Taphonomy and its significant role in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Turonian actaeonellid gastropod concentrations of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt	3
A microfossil evidence for the composition of fish communities in the Late Triassic of Tethys: examples from Cassian Formation, Italy	3
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	3
Morphology and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA	3
The influence of volcanic activity and trophic state on plant taphonomic processes in Triassic lacustrine-deltaic systems of western Gondwana	3
Lethaia Editorial Briefing	3
Late Devonian fossils of New South Wales and early tetrapod habitats	3
Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy	3
Bioﬁlm harvesters in coastal settings of the early Palaeozoic	3
The largest complex burrow system from the early Cambrian of Sweden, probably made by priapulids in response to tidal currents	3
Arguments for interpreting the vertebrate functional neck as an exaptation for terrestriality	3
Recurring taphonomic processes in the carnivoran‐dominated Late Miocene assemblages of Batallones‐3, Madrid Basin, Spain	3
Biomarker analysis of invertebrate fossils preserved in concretions from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Queensland, Australia	3
Could the asymmetrical commissure in rhynchonellide brachiopods be an adaptive trait?	3
The Anthropozoic era revisited	3
High‐resolution Pliocene–Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil distribution and palaeoenvironmental changes in the northwest Nile Delta, Egypt	3
Development and trunk segmentation of a redlichiid trilobite from Cambrian Series 2 of China	3
First fossil evidence of leaf‐feeding caterpillars from India and their feeding strategies	3
Morphological and compositional analyses of coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group reveal dietary habits of notosuchian fauna	2
The concept of ‘heteromorph ammonoids’	2
Response of Bathonian–Oxfordian transgressive-regressive cycles on foraminiferal morphogroups, and diversity: a case study from shallow marine deposits in north Gulf of Suez, Egypt	2
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First record of the ichnospecies Oichnus ovalis in a Jurassic ammonite	2
Planktonic foraminifera assemblages from the Brazil–Malvinas Confluence: palaeoceanographic implications of sub-surface temperature reconstructions in the western South Atlantic	2
Ecomorphological datasets: comment on	2

OichnusBromley as evidence of predator presence in the Canadian High Arctic	2
Bayesian analysis of ultra-high-resolution ostracod record reveals the tempo and structure of the late Wenlock Mulde Event	2
Bioerosion and palaeoecological association of osteophagous insects in the Maastrichtian dinosaur Arenysaurus ardevoli	2
Predator–prey interactions among Pliocene molluscs from the Tjörnes Peninsula, Iceland; across the trans‐Arctic invasion	2
Upper Cretaceous foreland flysch deposits from the Neotethyan Intra-Pontide Ocean: geological and palaeontological evidence from the Elmadağ Olistostrome of Ankara, central Türkiye	2
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	2
Biostratigraphical significance of a new trilobite fauna from the Harkless Formation (upper Stage 4, Series 2, Cambrian), Nevada, USA	2
Naticid gastropod predation on bivalve assemblages across the K-Pg mass extinction boundary in Rajahmundry, India	2