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

Article	Citations
Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity	31
Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods	20
Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation	20
Formation binning: a new method for increased temporal resolution in regional studies, applied to the Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record of North America	19
Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes	17
Diverse communities of Bacteria and Archaea flourished in Palaeoarchaean (3.5–3.3 Ga) microbial mats	16
Sporopollenin chemistry and its durability in the geological record: an integration of extant and fossil chemical data across the seed plants	15
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	14
Cochleatina: an enigmatic Ediacaran–Cambrian survivor among small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)	14
Stranger than a scorpion: a reassessment of Parioscorpio venator, a problematic arthropod from the Llandoverian Waukesha Lagerstätte	14
Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record	14
Bayesian analyses in phylogenetic palaeontology: interpreting the posterior sample	13
Silica entry and accumulation in standing trees in a hot‐spring environment: cellular pathways, rapid pace and fossilization potential	13
Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study	12
Recognizing pulses of extinction from clusters of last occurrences	12
Tracing the patterns of non‐marine turtle richness from the Triassic to the Palaeogene: from origin to global spread	12
Potential evolutionary trade‐off between feeding and stability in Cambrian cinctan echinoderms	12
Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	11
The Collins’ monster, a spinous suspension‐feeding lobopodian from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia	11
Mammal‐bearing gastric pellets potentially attributable to Troodonformosus at the Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA	11
A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion	11
Multibody dynamics analysis (MDA) as a numerical modelling tool to reconstruct the function and palaeobiology of extinct organisms	11
Learning to see the wood for the trees: machine learning, decision trees, and the classification of isolated theropod teeth	10
Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis	10
Oldest fossil ciliates from the Cryogenian glacial interlude reinterpreted as possible red algal spores	10

Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata)	10
Ups and downs of belemnite diversity in the Early Jurassic of Western Tethys	10
Evolutionary stasis, ecophenotypy and environmental controls on ammonite morphology in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Western Interior Seaway, USA	10
A method for mapping morphological convergence on three‐dimensional digital models: the case of the mammalian sabre‐tooth	9
Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data	9
An intermediate type of medusa from the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation, South China	9
Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell	8
Cephalic biomechanics underpins the evolutionary success of trilobites	8
Biomechanical properties of the jaws of two species of Clevosaurus and a reanalysis of rhynchocephalian dentary morphospace	8
Patterns of bilateral asymmetry and allometry in Late Devonian Polygnathus conodonts	8
Palaeobiogeography of the North Pacific toothed mysticetes (Cetacea, Aetiocetidae): a key to Oligocene cetacean distributional patterns	8
Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour	8
Network‐based biostratigraphy for the late Permian to mid‐Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) in South Africa enhances biozone applicability and stratigraphic correlation	8
Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology	8
Did hard substrate taxa diversify prior to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	7
The ontogenetic pattern of neurocentral suture closure in the axial skeleton of Hyperodapedontinae (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria) and its evolutionary implications	7
Skeletal and soft tissue completeness of the acanthodian fossil record	7
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	7
Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs	7
Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record	7
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	7
Ediacaran macroalgal holdfasts and their evolution: a case study from China	6
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	6
Algal affinity and possible life cycle of the early Cambrian acritarch Yurtusia uniformis from South China	6
Dryopithecine palaeobiodiversity in the Iberian Miocene revisited on the basis of molar endostructural morphology	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
Overcoming the constraints of spiral growth: the case of shell remodelling	6
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	6
Quantitative palaeobathymetric reconstructions based on foraminiferal proxies: a case study from the Neogene of south‐west Spain	6
One million years of diversity shifts in amphibians and reptiles in a Mediterranean landscape: resilience rules the Quaternary	6
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	6
Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity	6
Epidermal complexity in the theropod dinosaur Juravenator from the Upper Jurassic of Germany	6
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	5
Patterns of intraspecific variation through ontogeny: a case study of the Cretaceous nautilid Eutrephoceras dekayi and modern Nautilus pompilius	5
Morphological diversity, evolution and biogeography of early Pleistocene rabbits (Genus Oryctolagus)	5
Unique damage‐related, gap‐filling tooth replacement in pycnodont fishes	5
Snout shape and masticatory apparatus of the rodent‐like mesotheriid ungulates (Notoungulata, Typotheria): exploring evolutionary trends in dietary strategies through ancestral reconstructions	5
Phylogenetic response of naraoiid arthropods to early–middle Cambrian environmental change	5
Dietary shifts in a group of early Eocene euarchontans (Microsyopidae) in association with climatic change	4
Palaeohistological inferences of resting metabolic rates inConcornisandIberomesornis(Enantiornithes, Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Spain)	4
When less is more and more is less: the impact of sampling effort on species delineation	4
Taxonomic identification using virtual palaeontology and geometric morphometrics: a case study of Jurassic nerineoidean gastropods	4
Cryptic growth strategies of the Cambrian coral Cambroctoconus: flexible modes of budding and growth in immediate response to available space	4
Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod	4
How to date a crocodile: estimation of neosuchian clade ages and a comparison of four time‐scaling methods	4
Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	4
Systematic analysis of exceptionally preserved fossils: correlated patterns of decay and preservation	4
Testing for a dietary shift in the Early Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis	4

Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	4
Morphological disparity trends in Devonian trilobites from North Africa	4
Chemical preservation of tail feathers fromAnchiornis huxleyi, a theropod dinosaur from the Tiaojishan Formation (Upper Jurassic, China)	4
Facilitating corals in an early Silurian deep‐water assemblage	4
Fossilization processes have little impact on tip‐calibrated divergence time analyses	4
Experimental analysis of organ decay and pH gradients within a carcass and the implications for phosphatization of soft tissues	4
Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes	4
Ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing and conch shape in the Late Cretaceous gaudryceratid ammonoids: implications for their post‐embryonic palaeoecology	4
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology	4
Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	4
Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	3
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	3
Correlation of shell and aptychus growth provides insights into the palaeobiology of a scaphitid ammonite	3
Fluorescent colour patterns in the basal pectinid Pleuronectites from the Middle Triassic of Central Europe: origin, fate and taxonomic implications of fluorescence	3
Phosphatic carapace of the waptiid arthropod Chuandianella ovata and biomineralization of ecdysozoans	3
Eocene palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography of areas adjacent to the Drake Passage: insights from dinoflagellate cyst analysis	3
Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	3
Diversity dynamics of microfossils from the Cretaceous to the Neogene show mixed responses to events	3
An Appalachian population of neochoristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) elucidated using fossil evidence and ecological niche modelling	3
Did the Late Ordovician mass extinction event trigger the earliest evolution of ‘strophodontoid’ brachiopods?	3
Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	3
Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization	3
First application of dental microwear texture analysis to infer theropod feeding ecology	3
Assessing bite force estimates in extinct mammals and archosaurs using phylogenetic predictions	3
Skin patterning and internal anatomy in a fossil moonfish from the Eocene Bolca Lagerstätte illuminate the ecology of ancient reef fish communities	3
Macroscopic fossils from the Chuanlinggou Formation of North China: evidence for an earlier origin of multicellular algae in the late Palaeoproterozoic	2
Tooth development in the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Powichthys and the evolution of the crown osteichthyan dentition	2
Trophic partitioning and feeding capacity in Permian bryozoan faunas of Gondwana	2
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	2
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	2
The effect of geological biases on our perception of early land plant radiation	2
Quantitative plant taphonomy: the cosmopolitan Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata as a case study	2
An efficient method for estimating vein density of Glossopteris and its application	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
Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models	2
A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family	2
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	2
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	2
Earliest vertebrate embryos in the fossil record (Middle Devonian, Givetian)	2
Testing the success of palaeontological methods in the delimitation of clam shrimp (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) on extant species	2
On the estimation of body mass in temnospondyls: a case study using the large‐bodied Eryops and Paracyclotosaurus	2
Osteohistology and taphonomy support social aggregation in the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus	2
Dinosaurian survivorship schedules revisited: new insights from an age‐structured population model	2
Synchrotron x‐ray fluorescence analysis reveals diagenetic alteration of fossil melanosome trace metal chemistry	2
Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	2