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Papers

(The median citation count of Lethaia is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	85
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	18
Shell microstructure and composition illuminate the classification and evolution of early calcifying foraminifera	15
How microbes replaced metazoans in reef ecosystem during the Late Devonian mass extinction: new insights from platform facies in South China	12
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	12
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	12
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	11
Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet – new information from Solnhofen region pterodactyloid specimens	10
Lower Ordovician graptolites from the Cabrières region, Montagne Noire, France	9
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	9
Expanding the osteohistological toolbox for palaeophysiological studies	9
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	8
Palaeopathologies in Upper Jurassic turtle shells – their origin and significance for the evolution of biotic interactions	8
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	8
A micropalaeontological record of the Early Cretaceous marine-terrestrial interface in central Europe	7
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	7
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	7
First occurrence of a Silurian linguloid brachiopod with soft tissue preservation in Wales	7
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	7
New record of isograptid graptolites from the Puna region, northwestern Argentina: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical insights	6
Early-Middle Miocene coralline algal assemblages from the Siirt province, southeastern Türkiye: microtaphofacies analysis and palaeoenvironmental implications	6
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	6
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	6
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	5
Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	5

Fossil fish provide evidence of geomelanin preservation with implications on the visual accuracy of an extinct fish species	5
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	5
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways of Nummulites tests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	5
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	5
Environmental interpretation of giant trace fossils from the lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Iberian Chain (Spain) from lithofacies, microfossil and ichnofossil assemblages	5
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	5
Biodiversity of the tundra vole, Alexandromys oeconomus : ancient mitogenomes and the identification of a novel European haplogroup	5
Line up! Gregarious linear clusters of the trace fossil Lingulichnus from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, Pennsylvania, USA	5
Upper Viséan foraminiferal and algal diversity at Benburb, Northern Ireland as a tool of high-resolution biostratigraphy, and correlation of Late Viséan-Early Serpukhovian successions in Ireland and B	4
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	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
Palaeotectonic reconstructions of the Central Asian folded belt in the Silurian Tuvaella and Retziella brachiopod fauna locations	4
Nothosaur tracks from the Middle Triassic of Spain suggest a global distribution for distinctive swim track assemblages	4
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	4
Thalassinoides and Olenichnus in the Terreneuvian carbonates of the Igarka Uplift, NW Siberian Platform	4
A demineralized osteostracan fossil from the Silurian Kalana Lagerstätte of Estonia: revealing its internal anatomy and uncovering a unique type of fossilization	4
Quaternary environmental evolution of the Argentinean Pampa Deprimida based on mollusc and ostracod analysis	4
Neoichnology of the burrowing mayfly Tortopus circumfluus and its bearing on the ichnofossil Glossifungites gingrasi	4
Palaeoenvironmental study of two new foraminifera sites from Late Pleistocene transgressive deposits, northeast Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	4
Molluscs of the Lower Ordovician Cabrières Lagerstätte, France – diversity and distribution	4
Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	4
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	4
Lower and upper jaws of the Early Permian goniatitid ammonoids	4
Early Jurassic coral reef development outside Tethys: an example from western Argentina	3
Microwear structures and surface analysis on isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic Andrés fossil site, Pombal, Portugal	3
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nektonic biodiversity and vegetation shifts during the Smithian–Spathian transition: conodont and palynomorph insights from Svalbard	3
Significant diachronism in vertebrate burrows: Pleistocene megamammal burrows in Neogene sediments of Central Argentina	3
Brachiopods from the Early Ordovician Cabrières biota, southern France: ecology and taphonomy	3
A microfossil evidence for the composition of fish communities in the Late Triassic of Tethys: examples from Cassian Formation, Italy	3
Dental histology and attachment tissues in Notosuchus terrestris (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia): palaeobiological implications	3
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	3
Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy	2
The role of siliceous sponges in the pre-Eocene marine Si cycle as a Si source – a case study from a carbonate environment	2
Lethaia Editorial Briefing	2
Morphology and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA	2
Bioﬁlm harvesters in coastal settings of the early Palaeozoic	2
Challenges in using modern pollen analogues for Cenozoic palaeoecology: examples from the European Neogene	2
Late Devonian fossils of New South Wales and early tetrapod habitats	2
First report of epithelial cell moulds with nuclei impressions preserved in lower Cambrian (Stage 3) brachiopods from South China	2
Does mode of early development influence distribution? A study of Eocene gastropods from the Western Indian Province	2
Taphonomy and its significant role in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Turonian actaeonellid gastropod concentrations of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt	2
Biomarker analysis of invertebrate fossils preserved in concretions from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Queensland, Australia	2
Arguments for interpreting the vertebrate functional neck as an exaptation for terrestriality	2
Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia	2
Could the asymmetrical commissure in rhynchonellide brachiopods be an adaptive trait?	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
Ecomorphological datasets: comment on Hopkins (2022)	2
Oichnus Bromley as evidence of predator presence in the Canadian High Arctic	2
The Ordovician of the Cabrières area, Hérault, France: a brief overview of two centuries of palaeontological investigations	2
Partially preserved cornulitid feeding apparatuses from the lowest Silurian of South China support the lophophorate affinities of this enigmatic group	2

The largest complex burrow system from the early Cambrian of Sweden, probably made by priapulids in response to tidal currents	2
Development and trunk segmentation of a redlichiid trilobite from Cambrian Series 2 of China	2
Tracing the changes of life strategy from Ordovician dendroids to graptoloids	2
Taphonomy of Permian leaves with Flinders-style Ediacaran preservation	2
Palaeoenvironments, stratigraphy and taphonomy of an Upper Triassic vertebrate-bearing unit, Silves Group, central Algarve, southern Portugal	1
Fate of calcareous nannofossils during the Rhaetian (Late Triassic): evidence from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	1
Integrated calcareous nannofossil and stable isotope stratigraphy across the Danian-Selandian boundary, west central Sinai, Egypt	1
Ecophenotypic variation in the rudist bivalve Polyconites hadriani on an Aptian platform-slope facies gradient from the western Maestrat Basin, eastern Iberia	1
Bone microstructure in terrestrial Mesozoic Crocodylomorpha: Neuquensuchus and notosuchians	1
Mandibular force profiles of Alioramini (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) with implications for palaeoecology of this unique lineage of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs	1
Ichnology of the Lower Ordovician Landeyran Formation, Montagne Noire, France and criteria for distinguishing simple trace fossils from body fossils	1
Biostratigraphical significance of a new trilobite fauna from the Harkless Formation (upper Stage 4, Series 2, Cambrian), Nevada, USA	1
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	1
Barnacle taphonomy and ultrastructure: comparing modern and fossil shells from the western Mediterranean	1
A revised calcareous nannofossil biozonation for the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Lower Pliensbachian) of NW Europe	1
Single disparity indices can be misleading: comment on Suárez & Esteve (2021)	1
Controls on the sinking of hymenopterans and orthopterans in water of varying salinity: a taphonomic study	1
Exceptionally well-preserved radiolarian fossils within Miocene trace fossils from the Amatsu Formation, Chiba, Japan	1
Allometric growth and intraspecific variation of the craniomandibular bones of Tarbosaurus bataar (Theropoda, Tyrannosauridae): a geometric morphometric approach	1
Conservative ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing during the post-embryonic stage in Cretaceous ammonoids of the subfamily Desmoceratinae	1
Naticid gastropod predation on bivalve assemblages across the K-Pg mass extinction boundary in Rajahmundry, India	1
Presumed chaetetids in Smithian (early Olenekian, Early Triassic) microbial-sponge limestones, Rock Canyon, Arizona, USA	1
Gyrolithes as a proxy in the evolution of a river-influenced bay: an integrated ichnological and micropalaeontological approach in the Lower Pliocene of the Bajo Segura Basi	1
First record of the ichnospecies Oichnus ovalis in a Jurassic ammonite	1
Habits of highly effective worms: brachiopod host preferences of North American Devonian microconchids and cornulitids	1
Preservation modes of exceptionally preserved fossils from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, France	1
Palaeoecology of the Southern chamois from Valdegoba Cave (Burgos, Spain) and its exploitation by the Neanderthals	1
The mobile domicile boring Trypanites mobilis revisited – new observations and implications for ecosystem recovery following the Cretaceous – Palaeogene mass extinction	1
The earliest calcified cyanobacteria from the Cambrian Terreneuvian at the western margin of the Yangtze Plate, China	1
Craniomandibular ontogeny of protoceratopsid dinosaurs indicates the possibility of an ontogenetic dietary shift	1
Bayesian analysis of ultra-high-resolution ostracod record reveals the tempo and structure of the late Wenlock Mulde Event	1
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	1
Invasion and interaction: diversity shifts in the Nashville Basin during the Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion	1