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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	24
The Furongian (upper Cambrian) Alum Shale of Scandinavia: revision of zonation	18
Morphological diversity and disparity in trilobite cephala and the evolution of trilobite enrolment throughout the Palaeozoic	15
Fossil‐Lagerstätten, palaeoecology and preservation of invertebrates and vertebrates from the Devonian in the eastern Anti‐Atlas, Morocco	12
Integrated conodont and radiolarian biostratigraphy of the upper Norian in Baoshan Block, Southwestern China	12
First fossilized skin of a giant penguin from the Eocene of Antarctica	10
Late Anisian microbe‐metazoan build‐ups in the Germanic Basin: aftermath of the Permian–Triassic crisis	10
Sclerobionts associated with Orbiramus from the Early Ordovician of Hubei, China, the oldest known trepostome bryozoan	9
A Permian nurse log and evidence for facilitation in high-latitude Glossopteris forests	9
Unique near isometric ontogeny in the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus suggests hatchlings could fly	9
Shell structure, ornamentation and affinity of the problematic early Cambrian brachiopodHeliomedusa orienta	8
Palaeoecological analysis of a methane seep deposit from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the U.S. Western Interior	8
Upper Katian (Upper Ordovician) trans‐Atlantic δ¹³C chemostratigraphy: the geochronological equivalence of the ELKHORN and PAROVEJA excursions and its implications	8
New dinosaur, crocodylomorph and swim tracks from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin: implications for ichnodiversity	8
Large, unwebbed bird and bird‐like footprints from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic: a review of ichnotaxonomy and trackmaker affinity	8
A contiguous record of the SPICE event, sea‐level change and the first appearance of Fenghuangella laevis in Shandong Province, North China	7
The earliest burst of necrophagous dung beetles in South America revealed by the Cenozoic record of Coprinisphaera	7
The northernmost sauropod record in the Northern Hemisphere	7
New data on the palaeosteohistology and growth dynamic of the notosuchian Araripesuchus Price, 1959	7
Coprolites from shallow marine deposits of the Nanjemoy Formation, Lower Eocene of Virginia, USA	6
A Lower Cretaceous Lagerstätte from France: a taphonomic overview of the Angeac‐Charente vertebrate assemblage	6
Predatory drill holes in the oldest thyasirid bivalve, from the Lower Jurassic of South Germany	6
CrowdedTrichophycusichnofabrics in the early Ordovician successions of central Iran: insight into the Ordovician radiation	6
Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern-most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia	6
A high-precision global biostratigraphy of myodocope ostracods for the Silurian upper Wenlock Series and Ludlow Series	6

Fossiliferous methane‐seep deposits from the Cenozoic Talara Basin in northern Peru	6
After 100 years: a detailed view of an eumalacostracan crustacean from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lagerstätte with raptorial appendages unique to Euarthropoda	6
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	6
Changhsingian brachiopod communities along a marine depth gradient in South China and their ecological significance in the end-Permian mass extinction	6
Vauxiids as descendants of archaeocyaths: a hypothesis	6
The influence of volcanic activity and trophic state on plant taphonomic processes in Triassic lacustrine-deltaic systems of western Gondwana	6
Invasive mollusc faunas of the River Thames exemplify biostratigraphical characterization of the Anthropocene	6
Symbiosis of cornulitids with the cystoporate bryozoan Fistulipora in the Pridoli of Saaremaa, Estonia	6
Ediacaran macrofossils prior to the ~580 Ma Gaskiers glaciation in Newfoundland, Canada	5
The Anthropozoic era revisited	5
First discovery of the soft‐body imprint of an Oligocene fossil squid indicates its piscivorous diet	5
Epizoans immured in the heterocoral Oligophylloides maroccanus Weyer, 2017: a unique record from the Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Morocco	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
Maastrichtian-early Paleocene foraminiferal palaeobathymetry and depositional sequences at Gebel El Sharawna, south Luxor, Egypt	5
Diversity, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Eocene chondrichthyan assemblages of the Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy	5
First fossil evidence of leaf‐feeding caterpillars from India and their feeding strategies	5
Patterns of sclerobiont colonization on the rugose coral Schlotheimophyllum patellatum (Schlotheim, 1820) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	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
Palaeolimnology of the Santa Clara Abajo Formation, Triassic of the Cuyana Basin Argentina, inferred from fish taphonomy	5
Newly discovered Wuchiapingian to Olenekian conodonts from the Longgar area, southern Lhasa Terrane and their palaeobiogeographical implications	5
Cyclic environmental changes during the Early Toarcian at the Mochras Farm Borehole (Wales): a variable response of the foraminiferal community	4
Sneaking up on ‘enemies’: alleviating inherent disadvantages in competitive outcomes in a nearly 3-million-year-old palaeocommunity from Florida, USA	4
Fate of calcareous nannofossils during the Rhaetian (Late Triassic): evidence from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	4
Chemotaxonomic comparison of the seed ferns Odontopteris cantabrica and Odontopteris schlotheimii , Middle Pennsylvanian Sydney Coalfield,	4
High‐resolution Pliocene–Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil distribution and palaeoenvironmental changes in the northwest Nile Delta, Egypt	4
From shallow to deep water: an ecological study of the Hirnantia brachiopod Fauna (Late Ordovician) and its global implications	4
The concept of ‘heteromorph ammonoids’	4
Turritelline mass accumulations from the Lower Miocene of southern Germany: implications for tidal currents and nutrient transport within the North Alpine Foreland Basin	4
The first non-marine ostracod fauna from the Lower Barremian dysodiles of Lebanon	4
Structural, chemical and isotope evidence for secondary phosphate mineralization of grasping spines of Early Palaeozoic chaetognaths	4
Early Palaeozoic Discinocarina: a key to the appearance of cephalopod jaws	4
Moulting in the Cambrian oryctocephalid trilobiteArthricocephalites xinzhaiheensisfrom Guizhou Province, South China	4
Vertebral pneumatic structures in the Early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur Pilmatueia faundezi from northwestern Patagonia, Argentina	4
Cirrus versus radice: a brief study of confused crinoid terminology	4
Coprolites in natural traps: direct evidence of bone‐eating carnivorans from the Late Miocene Batallones‐3 site, Madrid, Spain	3
Coevolution of post‐Palaeozoic arthropod basibiont diversity and encrusting bryozoan epibiont diversity?	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
Identification of conodont fossils in pelagic deep‐sea siliceous sedimentary rocks using laboratory‐based X‐ray computed microtomography	3
The potential of carbonate ramps to record C-isotope shifts: insights from the upper Miocene of the Central Mediterranean area	3
Train crash crinoids revisited	3
Bioerosion and palaeoecological association of osteophagous insects in the Maastrichtian dinosaur Arenysaurus ardevoli	3
Carboniferous–Permian conodonts and the age of the lower Cutler Group in the Bears Ears National Monument and vicinity, Utah, USA	3
Planktonic foraminifera assemblages from the Brazil–Malvinas Confluence: palaeoceanographic implications of sub-surface temperature reconstructions in the western South Atlantic	3
Evaluating the role of coastal hypoxia on the transient expansion of microencruster intervals during the early Aptian	3
ʻConodont pearlsʼ do not belong to conodonts	3
Ecology, morphology and ontogeny of Paleolimulus kunguricus —a horseshoe crab from the Kungurian (Cisuralian) of the Cis-Urals, Russia	3
Strontium stratigraphy of the Oligocene–Early Miocene shellbeds of the Kutch Basin, western India, and its implications	3
Stromatoporoid-coral/tubeworm intergrowths in the lowermost Silurian Varbola Formation of Estonia: first evidence of competitive interaction	3

Morphological and compositional analyses of coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group reveal dietary habits of notosuchian fauna	3
Possible predation damage and repair in a Quaternary marine ostracod	3
Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy	3
From lagoons to mud mounds: palaeoecology of the Givetian to Frasnian stromatoporoids from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland	3
Recurring taphonomic processes in the carnivoran‐dominated Late Miocene assemblages of Batallones‐3, Madrid Basin, Spain	3
Genetic abnormality, parasitism and a new forma type of palaeopathy from the upper Callovian ammonite genus Peltoceras Waagen	3
The shell fabric of Palaeozoic brachiopods: patterns and trends	2
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	2
Autofluorescence of microborings in fossil freshwater bivalve shells	2
The functional performance of productidine brachiopods in relation to environmental variables	2
Biostratigraphical significance of a new trilobite fauna from the Harkless Formation (upper Stage 4, Series 2, Cambrian), Nevada, USA	2
Radiolitid rudists: an underestimated archive for Cretaceous climate reconstruction?	2
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	2
Single disparity indices can be misleading: comment on	2
Taphonomy and its significant role in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Turonian actaeonellid gastropod concentrations of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt	2
Ferruginous casts of bromalites in kaolin beds: microbial ferrihydrite‐goethite transformation as early stage taphonomy in lacustrine and riparian sediments	2
The evolution of thecideide microstructures and textures: traced from Triassic to Holocene	2
Firmground crustacean burrow systems (Glossifungites ichnofacies) in marine shelf deposits, Paleocene Clayton Formation, Alabama, USA	2
Gastropod palaeohabitats of Miocene Lake Randeck Maar and its hinterland defined by an actualistic genus‐level approach	2
Silurian stratigraphy and graptolite faunas of the Mora 001 and Solberga 1 drill cores, Siljan District, central Sweden	2
Predator–prey interactions among Pliocene molluscs from the Tjörnes Peninsula, Iceland; across the trans‐Arctic invasion	2
Foraging flatworms and roundworms caught in the act: examples from a Middle Triassic mud flat in Germany	2
Inferring eco-climate parameters for the Pliocene Climate Optimum using frog body size as a new proxy	2
Conservative ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing during the post-embryonic stage in Cretaceous ammonoids of the subfamily Desmoceratinae	2
The trace fossilSinusichnusfrom the Upper Ordovician of Anticosti Island, eastern Canada	2
The morphospace of Late Permian coiled nautiloids	2
Dental histology and attachment tissues in Notosuchus terrestris (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia): palaeobiological implications	2
Body mass estimate of Bruhathkayosaurus and other fragmentary sauropod remains suggest the largest land animals were about as big as the greatest whales	2