OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	32
Morphological diversity and disparity in trilobite cephala and the evolution of trilobite enrolment throughout the Palaeozoic	16
New dinosaur, crocodylomorph and swim tracks from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin: implications for ichnodiversity	11
Unique near isometric ontogeny in the pterosaurRhamphorhynchussuggests hatchlings could fly	11
Late Anisian microbe‐metazoan build‐ups in the Germanic Basin: aftermath of the Permian–Triassic crisis	10
New data on the palaeosteohistology and growth dynamic of the notosuchianAraripesuchusPrice, 1959	9
Large, unwebbed bird and bird‐like footprints from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic: a review of ichnotaxonomy and trackmaker affinity	9
A Permian nurse log and evidence for facilitation in high-latitudeGlossopterisforests	9
Palaeoecological analysis of a methane seep deposit from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the U.S. Western Interior	9
Sclerobionts associated with Orbiramus from the Early Ordovician of Hubei, China, the oldest known trepostome bryozoan	9
Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern-most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia	8
Coprolites from shallow marine deposits of the Nanjemoy Formation, Lower Eocene of Virginia, USA	8
Vauxiids as descendants of archaeocyaths: a hypothesis	8
Symbiosis of cornulitids with the cystoporate bryozoan Fistulipora in the Pridoli of Saaremaa, Estonia	7
A Lower Cretaceous Lagerstätte from France: a taphonomic overview of the Angeac‐Charente vertebrate assemblage	7
The shell fabric of Palaeozoic brachiopods: patterns and trends	7
A contiguous record of the SPICE event, sea‐level change and the first appearance of Fenghuangella laevis in Shandong Province, North China	7
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	7
The Anthropozoic era revisited	7
Predatory drill holes in the oldest thyasirid bivalve, from the Lower Jurassic of South Germany	7
Diversity, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Eocene chondrichthyan assemblages of the Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy	6
CrowdedTrichophycusichnofabrics in the early Ordovician successions of central Iran: insight into the Ordovician radiation	6
First discovery of the soft‐body imprint of an Oligocene fossil squid indicates its piscivorous diet	6
First fossil evidence of leaf‐feeding caterpillars from India and their feeding strategies	6
Newly discovered Wuchiapingian to Olenekian conodonts from the Longgar area, southern Lhasa Terrane and their palaeobiogeographical implications	6

The influence of volcanic activity and trophic state on plant taphonomic processes in Triassic lacustrine-deltaic systems of western Gondwana	6
After 100 years: a detailed view of an eumalacostracan crustacean from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lagerstätte with raptorial appendages unique to Euarthropoda	6
Ediacaran macrofossils prior to the ~580 Ma Gaskiers glaciation in Newfoundland, Canada	6
Coprolites in natural traps: direct evidence of bone‐eating carnivorans from the Late Miocene Batallones‐3 site, Madrid, Spain	5
A sting in the tale of Parioscorpio venator from the Silurian of Wisconsin: is it a cheloniellid arthropod?	5
Bone microstructure in terrestrial Mesozoic Crocodylomorpha:Neuquensuchusand notosuchians	5
Chemotaxonomic comparison of the seed ferns Odontopteris cantabrica and Odontopteris schlotheimii , Middle Pennsylvanian Sydney Coalfield,	5
Palaeolimnology of the Santa Clara Abajo Formation, Triassic of the Cuyana Basin Argentina, inferred from fish taphonomy	5
Carboniferous–Permian conodonts and the age of the lower Cutler Group in the Bears Ears National Monument and vicinity, Utah, USA	5
Evaluating the role of coastal hypoxia on the transient expansion of microencruster intervals during the early Aptian	5
Moulting in the Cambrian oryctocephalid trilobiteArthricocephalites xinzhaiheensisfrom Guizhou Province, South China	5
Bioerosion and palaeoecological association of osteophagous insects in the Maastrichtian dinosaur Arenysaurus ardevoli	5
Microbialites and trace fossils from a Middle Triassic restricted carbonate ramp in the Catalan Basin, Spain: evaluating environmental and evolutionary controls in an epicontinental setting	5
Heliolitid corals and their competitors: a case study from the Wellin patch reefs, Middle Devonian, Belgium	5
The concept of ‘heteromorph ammonoids’	5
Fate of calcareous nannofossils during the Rhaetian (Late Triassic): evidence from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	5
The first non-marine ostracod fauna from the Lower Barremian dysodiles of Lebanon	5
Early Palaeozoic Discinocarina: a key to the appearance of cephalopod jaws	4
Palaeoecology of the Southern chamois from Valdegoba Cave (Burgos, Spain) and its exploitation by the Neanderthals	4
Ecology, morphology and ontogeny of Paleolimulus kunguricus —a horseshoe crab from the Kungurian (Cisuralian) of the Cis-Urals, Russia	4
Stromatoporoid-coral/tubeworm intergrowths in the lowermost Silurian Varbola Formation of Estonia: first evidence of competitive interaction	4
Cyclic environmental changes during the Early Toarcian at the Mochras Farm Borehole (Wales): a variable response of the foraminiferal community	4
Single disparity indices can be misleading: comment on	4
Recurring taphonomic processes in the carnivoran‐dominated Late Miocene assemblages of Batallones‐3, Madrid Basin, Spain	4
Structural, chemical and isotope evidence for secondary phosphate mineralization of grasping spines of Early Palaeozoic chaetognaths	4
Morphological and compositional analyses of coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group reveal dietary habits of notosuchian fauna	4
Radiolitid rudists: an underestimated archive for Cretaceous climate reconstruction?	4
Insights into mineral composition and ultrastructure of Jurassic sabellid tubes (Annelida, Polychaeta): the evolution of sabellid calcification and its palaeoecological implications	4
Cirrus versus radice: a brief study of confused crinoid terminology	4
High‐resolution Pliocene–Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil distribution and palaeoenvironmental changes in the northwest Nile Delta, Egypt	4
The evolution of thecideide microstructures and textures: traced from Triassic to Holocene	3
Body mass estimate of Bruhathkayosaurus and other fragmentary sauropod remains suggest the largest land animals were about as big as the greatest whales	3
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	3
Middle to Late Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian foraminiferal zonal scheme of South China—a case study from the Youjiang Basin: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications	3
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	3
Foraging flatworms and roundworms caught in the act: examples from a Middle Triassic mud flat in Germany	3
An Early Triassic small shelly fossil-style assemblage from the Virgin Limestone Member, Moenkopi Formation, western United States	3
Palaeoecology and taphonomy of a middle Miocene domical cheilostome bryozoan, Siwa Oasis, the northern Western Desert of Egypt	3
Biostratigraphical significance of a new trilobite fauna from the Harkless Formation (upper Stage 4, Series 2, Cambrian), Nevada, USA	3
Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy	3
Neoichnology of the burrowing mayfly Tortopus circumfluus and its bearing on the ichnofossil Glossifungites gingrasi	3
Identification of conodont fossils in pelagic deep‐sea siliceous sedimentary rocks using laboratory‐based X‐ray computed microtomography	3
ʻConodont pearlsʼ do not belong to conodonts	3
Taphonomy and its significant role in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Turonian actaeonellid gastropod concentrations of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt	3
Train crash crinoids revisited	3
Genetic abnormality, parasitism and a new forma type of palaeopathy from the upper Callovian ammonite genus Peltoceras Waagen	3
Dental histology and attachment tissues in Notosuchus terrestris (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia): palaeobiological implications	3
Predator–prey interactions among Pliocene molluscs from the Tjörnes Peninsula, Iceland; across the trans‐Arctic invasion	3
Planktonic foraminifera assemblages from the Brazil–Malvinas Confluence: palaeoceanographic implications of sub-surface temperature reconstructions in the western South Atlantic	3
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	3

From lagoons to mud mounds: palaeoecology of the Givetian to Frasnian stromatoporoids from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland	3
The potential of carbonate ramps to record C-isotope shifts: insights from the upper Miocene of the Central Mediterranean area	3
Transition from coral to stromatoporoid patch reefs in Middle Jurassic equatorial warm waters	3
Cambrian and Ordovician diversity fluctuations could be resolved through a single ecological hypothesis	2
The functional performance of productidine brachiopods in relation to environmental variables	2
Angiosperm tree leaf as a bryozoan substrate: a case study from the Cretaceous and its taphonomic consequences	2
Eurypterid morphology and implications for ecdysis and evolutionary longevity	2
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	2
Ferruginous casts of bromalites in kaolin beds: microbial ferrihydrite‐goethite transformation as early stage taphonomy in lacustrine and riparian sediments	2
Periostracum in Cambrian helcionelloid and rostroconch molluscs: comparison to modern taxa	2
A tholichthys‐like larva (Teleostei, Percomorpha) from the Eocene of Northern Caucasus, Russia	2
Exceptional preservation of Triassic-Jurassic fossil plants: integrating biosignatures and fossil diagenesis to understand microbial-related iron dynamics	2
Silurian stratigraphy and graptolite faunas of the Mora 001 and Solberga 1 drill cores, Siljan District, central Sweden	2
Autofluorescence of microborings in fossil freshwater bivalve shells	2
Inferring eco-climate parameters for the Pliocene Climate Optimum using frog body size as a new proxy	2
Conodonts from the Grippia niveau bonebed (Lower Triassic, Spathian), Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway	2
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	2
The mobile domicile boring Trypanites mobilis revisited – new observations and implications for ecosystem recovery following the Cretaceous – Palaeogene mass extinction	2
Conservative ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing during the post-embryonic stage in Cretaceous ammonoids of the subfamily Desmoceratinae	2