OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lethaia is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	99
How microbes replaced metazoans in reef ecosystem during the Late Devonian mass extinction: new insights from platform facies in South China	20
Acritarchs from the Floian (Early Ordovician) of the Montagne Noire, France: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications	16
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	14
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	12
Shell microstructure and composition illuminate the classification and evolution of early calcifying foraminifera	12
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	11
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	11
Expanding the osteohistological toolbox for palaeophysiological studies	10
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	10
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	9
Palaeopathologies in Upper Jurassic turtle shells – their origin and significance for the evolution of biotic interactions	8
First occurrence of a Silurian linguloid brachiopod with soft tissue preservation in Wales	8
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	8
Euarthropods from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, including a new aglaspidid and freshly moulted trilobite material	7
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	7
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	7
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	7
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	7
A micropalaeontological record of the Early Cretaceous marine-terrestrial interface in central Europe	6
Inconsistent oxygen and carbon isotopic values between contemporary secreted septa and outer shells in some early Albian ammonoid species from Madagascar	6
New record of isograptid graptolites from the Puna region, northwestern Argentina: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical insights	5
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	5
Beyond preservation: morphological analysis of Lower Jurassic serpenticone ammonoids	5

Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	5
New data on high-latitude ecosystems from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, France	5
From sedimentary reworking to collection bias: dual taphonomic filters in shark fossil remains	5
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	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
Line up! Gregarious linear clusters of the trace fossil Lingulichnus from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, Pennsylvania, USA	5
Early-Middle Miocene coralline algal assemblages from the Siirt province, southeastern Türkiye: microtaphofacies analysis and palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	5
Fossil fish provide evidence of geomelanin preservation with implications on the visual accuracy of an extinct fish species	5
Biodiversity of the tundra vole, Alexandromys oeconomus : ancient mitogenomes and the identification of a novel European haplogroup	5
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	4
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways of Nummulites tests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	4
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	4
Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	4
Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	4
Molluscs of the Lower Ordovician Cabrières Lagerstätte, France – diversity and distribution	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
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	4
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	4
Palaeoenvironmental study of two new foraminifera sites from Late Pleistocene transgressive deposits, northeast Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	4