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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	70
Discovery of plant cuticles in phyllite, late Pennsylvanian Southern Anthracite Field, eastern Pennsylvania, USA: a new research resource?	20
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	16
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	14
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	13
How microbes replaced metazoans in reef ecosystem during the Late Devonian mass extinction: new insights from platform facies in South China	12
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	10
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	10
Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet – new information from Solnhofen region pterodactyloid specimens	10
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	10
Ferruginous casts of bromalites in kaolin beds: microbial ferrihydrite‐goethite transformation as early stage taphonomy in lacustrine and riparian sediments	10
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	9
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	9
Shell microstructures of latest Permian Rugosochonetidae (Brachiopoda): evidence from SEM‐ and CT‐scanned shell materials	9
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	8
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	8
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	8
A micropalaeontological record of the Early Cretaceous marine-terrestrial interface in central Europe	8
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	7
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	7
Identification of conodont fossils in pelagic deep‐sea siliceous sedimentary rocks using laboratory‐based X‐ray computed microtomography	7
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	6
Environmental interpretation of giant trace fossils from the lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Iberian Chain (Spain) from lithofacies, microfossil and ichnofossil assemblages	6
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	6
Fossil fish provide evidence of geomelanin preservation with implications on the visual accuracy of an extinct fish species	6

Eurypterid morphology and implications for ecdysis and evolutionary longevity	6
Early-Middle Miocene coralline algal assemblages from the Siirt province, southeastern Türkiye: microtaphofacies analysis and palaeoenvironmental implications	6
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	5
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	5
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	5
Newly discovered Wuchiapingian to Olenekian conodonts from the Longgar area, southern Lhasa Terrane and their palaeobiogeographical implications	5
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways of Nummulites tests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	5
Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	5
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	4
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
Quaternary environmental evolution of the Argentinean Pampa Deprimida based on mollusc and ostracod analysis	4
Early Jurassic coral reef development outside Tethys: an example from western Argentina	4
High‐resolution Pliocene–Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil distribution and palaeoenvironmental changes in the northwest Nile Delta, Egypt	4
Dental histology and attachment tissues in Notosuchus terrestris (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia): palaeobiological implications	4
A microfossil evidence for the composition of fish communities in the Late Triassic of Tethys: examples from Cassian Formation, Italy	4
Neoichnology of the burrowing mayfly Tortopus circumfluus and its bearing on the ichnofossil Glossifungites gingrasi	4
Nothosaur tracks from the Middle Triassic of Spain suggest a global distribution for distinctive swim track assemblages	4
Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	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
First fossil evidence of leaf‐feeding caterpillars from India and their feeding strategies	4
Bioﬁlm harvesters in coastal settings of the early Palaeozoic	4
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nektonic biodiversity and vegetation shifts during the Smithian–Spathian transition: conodont and palynomorph insights from Svalbard	4
Palaeotectonic reconstructions of the Central Asian folded belt in the Silurian Tuvaella and Retziella brachiopod fauna locations	4
Palaeoenvironmental study of two new foraminifera sites from Late Pleistocene transgressive deposits, northeast Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	4
A demineralized osteostracan fossil from the Silurian Kalana Lagerstätte of Estonia: revealing its internal anatomy and uncovering a unique type of fossilization	4
Thalassinoides and Olenichnus in the Terreneuvian carbonates of the Igarka Uplift, NW Siberian Platform	4
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	4
The largest complex burrow system from the early Cambrian of Sweden, probably made by priapulids in response to tidal currents	4
Lower and upper jaws of the Early Permian goniatitid ammonoids	4
Taphonomy and its significant role in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Turonian actaeonellid gastropod concentrations of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt	3
Development and trunk segmentation of a redlichiid trilobite from Cambrian Series 2 of China	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
Upper Cretaceous foreland flysch deposits from the Neotethyan Intra-Pontide Ocean: geological and palaeontological evidence from the Elmadağ Olistostrome of Ankara, central Türkiye	3
The concept of ‘heteromorph ammonoids’	3
Morphology and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA	3
Lethaia Editorial Briefing	3
Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia	3
Ecomorphological datasets: comment on Hopkins (2022)	3
Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy	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
Late Devonian fossils of New South Wales and early tetrapod habitats	3
Predator–prey interactions among Pliocene molluscs from the Tjörnes Peninsula, Iceland; across the trans‐Arctic invasion	3
Morphological and compositional analyses of coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group reveal dietary habits of notosuchian fauna	2
Oichnus Bromley as evidence of predator presence in the Canadian High Arctic	2
Does mode of early development influence distribution? A study of Eocene gastropods from the Western Indian Province	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
First report of epithelial cell moulds with nuclei impressions preserved in lower Cambrian (Stage 3) brachiopods from South China	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
First record of the ichnospecies Oichnus ovalis in a Jurassic ammonite	2
Mandibular force profiles of Alioramini (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) with implications for palaeoecology of this unique lineage of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs	2
Diversity, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Eocene chondrichthyan assemblages of the Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy	2
Bayesian analysis of ultra-high-resolution ostracod record reveals the tempo and structure of the late Wenlock Mulde Event	2
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	2
Presumed chaetetids in Smithian (early Olenekian, Early Triassic) microbial-sponge limestones, Rock Canyon, Arizona, USA	2
Bioerosion and palaeoecological association of osteophagous insects in the Maastrichtian dinosaur Arenysaurus ardevoli	2
Conservative ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing during the post-embryonic stage in Cretaceous ammonoids of the subfamily Desmoceratinae	2