OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeontology 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	25
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Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	23
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors	23
Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina	20
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	19
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’	18
A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family	16
Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function	16
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Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	15
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)	15
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	14
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	14
Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert	13
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Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage	12
Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	11
Stuck in the mud: experimental taphonomy and computed tomography demonstrate the critical role of sediment in stabilizing the three‐dimensional external morphology of arthropod carcasses during early	11
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Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	11
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	11
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Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs	10

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The effects of sensitive environmental indicators in interpreting faunas of the past: a case study from the Jurassic of China	9
Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	9
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The role of substrate in determining the dominance of immobile, epifaunal bivalves in the Late Cretaceous	9
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Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	8
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Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics	8
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Functional morphology and biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis and bite performance in the sister tax	7
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	7
Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies	7
Correction to ‘Establishing temperate crustose early Holocene coralline algae as archives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the shallow water habitats of the Mediterranean Sea’	7
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	7
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution	7
Climatic niche stability and lability in Holarctic non‐marine ostracods: implications for Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstruction	6
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Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	6
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Microstructural and geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle	6
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	6
I believe I can fly… New implications for the mode of life and palaeoecology of the Late Triassic Ozimek volans based on its unique long bone histology	6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates	6
High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic	6
Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example	6
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	5
Convergent evolution among non‐carnivorous, desert‐dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae (Cretaceous of Brazil)	5
Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function	5
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	5
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The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology	5
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Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	4
Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐Permian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran)	4
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	4
A coherent biogeographical framework for Old World Neogene and Pleistocene mammals	4
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Ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing and conch shape in the Late Cretaceous gaudryceratid ammonoids: implications for their post‐embryonic palaeoecology	4

Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	4
How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms	4
Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	4
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Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs	4
The conundrum of taxonomic uniformitarianism in planktic foraminifera	4
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Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous	3
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Initial quantitative assessment of the enigmatic clade Paracrinoidea (Echinodermata)	3
Diversification and disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea	3
How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size	3
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On the estimation of body mass in temnospondyls: a case study using the large‐bodied Eryops and Paracyclotosaurus	3
Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record	3
Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic	3
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Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians	3
Pachyosteosclerosis, rhamphotheca and enhanced sensory capabilities of the premaxillae of Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria): implications for foraging at the sediment–water interf	3
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology	3
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological, and climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework	3
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Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	2
An efficient method for estimating vein density ofGlossopterisand its application	2
How to date a crocodile: estimation of neosuchian clade ages and a comparison of four time‐scaling methods	2
Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods	2
A new insect boring in fossil wood from the Iranian Upper Cretaceous	2
Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	2
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Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	2
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Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes	2
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Mouthpart morphology and feeding structures in the palaeocharinid trigonotarbids of the Rhynie chert: insights from comparisons to modern arachnids	2