OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeontology is 1. 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
Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity	35
Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes	23
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	18
Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	16
A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion	15
A method for mapping morphological convergence on three‐dimensional digital models: the case of the mammalian sabre‐tooth	15
Sporopollenin chemistry and its durability in the geological record: an integration of extant and fossil chemical data across the seed plants	15
Stranger than a scorpion: a reassessment of Parioscorpio venator, a problematic arthropod from the Llandoverian Waukesha Lagerstätte	14
Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour	14
Mammal‐bearing gastric pellets potentially attributable to Troodonformosus at the Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA	14
Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study	14
Cephalic biomechanics underpins the evolutionary success of trilobites	13
Ups and downs of belemnite diversity in the Early Jurassic of Western Tethys	13
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	12
Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis	12
Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology	11
Network‐based biostratigraphy for the late Permian to mid‐Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) in South Africa enhances biozone applicability and stratigraphic correlation	10
Experimental analysis of organ decay and pH gradients within a carcass and the implications for phosphatization of soft tissues	10
Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data	10
Morphological diversity, evolution and biogeography of early Pleistocene rabbits (Genus Oryctolagus)	10
The ontogenetic pattern of neurocentral suture closure in the axial skeleton of Hyperodapedontinae (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria) and its evolutionary implications	9
Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod	9
Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell	9
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	9
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	8

Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	8
One million years of diversity shifts in amphibians and reptiles in a Mediterranean landscape: resilience rules the Quaternary	8
Dryopithecine palaeobiodiversity in the Iberian Miocene revisited on the basis of molar endostructural morphology	8
Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization	8
Skeletal and soft tissue completeness of the acanthodian fossil record	8
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	8
Quantitative palaeobathymetric reconstructions based on foraminiferal proxies: a case study from the Neogene of south‐west Spain	8
Patterns of bilateral asymmetry and allometry in Late Devonian Polygnathus conodonts	8
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	7
Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	7
Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs	7
Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity	7
Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	7
Epidermal complexity in the theropod dinosaurJuravenatorfrom the Upper Jurassic of Germany	7
Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip‐dated divergence times	6
Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes	6
Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	6
Dietary shifts in a group of early Eocene euarchontans (Microsyopidae) in association with climatic change	6
Systematic analysis of exceptionally preserved fossils: correlated patterns of decay and preservation	6
Unique damage‐related, gap‐filling tooth replacement in pycnodont fishes	6
Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	6
Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity	6
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	6
Palaeohistological inferences of resting metabolic rates inConcornisandIberomesornis(Enantiornithes, Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Spain)	5
Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions	5
Skin patterning and internal anatomy in a fossil moonfish from the Eocene Bolca Lagerstätte illuminate the ecology of ancient reef fish communities	5
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	5
First application of dental microwear texture analysis to infer theropod feeding ecology	5
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	5
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology	5
Snout shape and masticatory apparatus of the rodent‐like mesotheriid ungulates (Notoungulata, Typotheria): exploring evolutionary trends in dietary strategies through ancestral reconstructions	5
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	5
Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models	5
Phylogenetic response of naraoiid arthropods to early–middle Cambrian environmental change	5
Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	4
Unique dentition of rhynchosaurs and their two‐phase success as herbivores in the Triassic	4
Facilitating corals in an early Silurian deep‐water assemblage	4
When less is more and more is less: the impact of sampling effort on species delineation	4
Phosphatic carapace of the waptiid arthropod Chuandianella ovata and biomineralization of ecdysozoans	4
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	4
Ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing and conch shape in the Late Cretaceous gaudryceratid ammonoids: implications for their post‐embryonic palaeoecology	4
Correlation of shell and aptychus growth provides insights into the palaeobiology of a scaphitid ammonite	4
Fossilization processes have little impact on tip‐calibrated divergence time analyses	4
Testing the success of palaeontological methods in the delimitation of clam shrimp (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) on extant species	4
A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family	4
Morphological disparity trends in Devonian trilobites from North Africa	4
How to date a crocodile: estimation of neosuchian clade ages and a comparison of four time‐scaling methods	4
Pachyosteosclerosis, rhamphotheca and enhanced sensory capabilities of the premaxillae of Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria): implications for foraging at the sediment–water interf	4
Testing for a dietary shift in the Early Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis	4
Taxonomic identification using virtual palaeontology and geometric morphometrics: a case study of Jurassic nerineoidean gastropods	4

Macroscopic fossils from the Chuanlinggou Formation of North China: evidence for an earlier origin of multicellular algae in the late Palaeoproterozoic	3
The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology	3
On the estimation of body mass in temnospondyls: a case study using the large‐bodied Eryops and Paracyclotosaurus	3
Did the Late Ordovician mass extinction event trigger the earliest evolution of ‘strophodontoid’ brachiopods?	3
Diversity dynamics of microfossils from the Cretaceous to the Neogene show mixed responses to events	3
The locomotor ecomorphology of Mesozoic marine reptiles	3
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals a likely dietary shift within Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs	3
Eocene palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography of areas adjacent to the Drake Passage: insights from dinoflagellate cyst analysis	3
Fluorescent colour patterns in the basal pectinid Pleuronectites from the Middle Triassic of Central Europe: origin, fate and taxonomic implications of fluorescence	3
An Appalachian population of neochoristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) elucidated using fossil evidence and ecological niche modelling	3
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	3
Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	3
Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes	2
Tooth development in the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Powichthys and the evolution of the crown osteichthyan dentition	2
Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians	2
Osteohistology and taphonomy support social aggregation in the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus	2
How long does a brachiopod shell last on a seafloor? Modern mid‐bathyal environments as taphonomic analogues of continental shelves prior to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution	2
An early Cambrian polyp reveals a potential anemone‐like ancestor for medusozoan cnidarians	2
Quantitative plant taphonomy: the cosmopolitan Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata as a case study	2
The evolutionary origin of the durophagous pelagic stingray ecomorph	2
Spatiotemporal variation in completeness of the early cynodont fossil record and its implications for mammalian evolutionary history	2
Potential of closed contour analysis for species differentiation and holotype designation: a case study on lower Norian (Upper Triassic) conodonts	2
How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms	2
Dinosaurian survivorship schedules revisited: new insights from an age‐structured population model	2
The effect of geological biases on our perception of early land plant radiation	2
Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	2
A new method for extracting conodonts and radiolarians from chert with NaOH solution	2
An efficient method for estimating vein density ofGlossopterisand its application	2
Phylogenetic structure of the extinction and biotic factors explaining differential survival of terrestrial notosuchians at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene crisis	2
Trophic partitioning and feeding capacity in Permian bryozoan faunas of Gondwana	2
Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies	2
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	2
The dentary of hadrosauroid dinosaurs: evolution through heterochrony	1
Illuminating the evolution of bioluminescence in sharks	1
Quantifying the gastral mass in Early Cretaceous ornithuromorphs (Aves, Ornithothoraces) from the Jehol avifauna	1
Vital statistics, absolute abundance and preservation rate of Tyrannosaurus rex	1
Taxic and morphological diversification during the early radiation of Clupeomorpha (Actinopterygii, Teleostei)	1
Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	1
Uncovering a phylogenetic signal in plant biopolymer chemistry: a comparison of sporopollenin isolation approaches for use in palynological research	1
hespdiv: an R package for spatially constrained, hierarchical and contiguous regionalization in palaeobiogeography	1
Elevated evolutionary rates of biting biomechanics reveal patterns of extraordinary craniodental adaptations in some herbivorous dinosaurs	1
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	1
Initial quantitative assessment of the enigmatic clade Paracrinoidea (Echinodermata)	1
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	1
What's inside a sauropod limb? First three‐dimensional investigation of the limb long bone microanatomy of a sauropod dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti (Neosauropoda, Rebbachisauridae), and implica	1
Quantitative ichnology: a novel framework to determine the producers of locomotory trace fossils with the ichnogenus Gordia as a case study	1
Species of Dickinsonia Sprigg from the Ediacaran of South Australia	1
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates	1
Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐Permian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran)	1
Thecate stem medusozoans (Cnidaria) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota	1
A coherent biogeographical framework for Old World Neogene and Pleistocene mammals	1