OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of PalZ is 3. 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
A new species of Cretaceoushormiops from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)	14
Morphology of the stem group echinoids Lepidocentrus eifelianus and Rhenechinus hopstaetteri from the Devonian of the Eifel region, Germany	13
On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia)	12
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys—Part II: description of †Moldavigobius helenae gen. et sp. nov.	12
The oldest representative of the tribe Paederini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	9
A review of the Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) species Paraxelcana coronakanthodis, Letoelcana artemisapollonque and Trigonelca jennywinterae Schall et al., 2023	9
Latest Triassic (Sevatian–Rhaetian) reef carbonates from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria), their mollusc dwellers, and their fate at the end-Triassic extinction event	9
Enigmatic fragment possibly marks the first pterosaur record from the Lower Toarcian of Grimmen, NE Germany	8
Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)	8
Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies	8
Retiolitid graptolites from the collection of Hermann Jaeger III. Paraplectograptus, Gothograptus and their relatives	8
A new holocrinid sea lily from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Qingyan, south-western China, and the morphological variability of the distal nodal facets in the genus Holocrinus	7
Cheilostome bryozoan epibiosis on brachyuran crabs in the Paratethys Sea during the late Badenian (middle Miocene)	7
The oldest simosaurids (Anisian of Israel): implications for the paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic distributions of the group	7
Preface: Palaeontological papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, a tribute and memorial	6
A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks	6
A skeleton of Cuvierimops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the lower Oligocene (Rupelian) of Céreste, southern France	5
Braincase and digital endocast of a loricatan pseudosuchian (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia (Canada)	5
Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes	5
Gross and microscopic anatomy of a tibia tentatively attributed to a cetacean from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with a note on the artiodactyl Anoplotherium and on the perissodactyl Lophiodon	5
Redescription of the actinopterygian fish Westollia crassa (Pohlig, 1892) (Aeduellidae) from the Permian sediments of Thuringia and its relationships to other Aeduellidae	5
A new alcyonacean octocoral (Anthozoa) from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	4
Bioerosion and encrustation signatures on Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim) from the Miocene Raghama Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: description and paleoenvironmental implications	4
The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)	4
Trigonotarbids (Arachnida) hidden in plant debris from a Late Pennsylvanian tropical forest at El Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain	4

Special Issue: 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Cologne 2019. Palaeontological contributions	4
A new papionin molar (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Serbia	4
Fusulinid biozonation of the Bashkirian–Moscovian successions from the Hadim Nappe, central Taurides, southern Turkey	4
Frog crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Raninoidea) from lower Eocene coral reef environments of the Serraduy Formation (Southern Pyrenees, Huesca, Spain)	4
†Propercarina occidentalis, sp. nov., a new percomorph from the Oligocene of the Unterfeld (“Frauenweiler”) clay pit, and its relationships to Stromateoidei	4
Fossils of the megatoothed shark Otodus (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from Washington State, USA	3
Fruit taphonomy and origin of hollow goethite spherulites in lacustrine sediments of the Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation, western Canada	3
New proboscidean specimens from the Late Miocene of Romania: the huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum, the rare “Mammut” cf. obliquelophus and the first description of the shovel-tusker Konobelo	3
A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany	3
Is Hippopotamus antiquus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) affected by body size variations? The contribution of the Mosbach (Germany, Middle Pleistocene) specimen	3
A new genus and species of Galeritidae (Echinoidea, Echinoneoida) from the Upper Campanian (Cretaceous) of N Germany	3
The fossil record of ungulates from the late Pleistocene locality of Melitzia cave, Mani Peninsula, Greece	3
The ostracod genus Eucytherura G.W. Müller and the ‘Cythere complexa Brady’ problem	3
Re-evaluation of the Devonian ichthyofaunal assemblage from Lithuania and Belarus	3
A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy	3